Real Assets

President Chris Morris says the firm believes about a fifth of its 50,000-acre Mid-South row crop farmland portfolio has potential for some form of solar development.

The half-year take by closed-end agrifood and forestry funds matches H1 2024 – the highest raised at the mid-year point since 2019.

KKR will invest in ProTen through its second pan-Asia infrastructure fund, calling agricultural infrastructure a ‘high-conviction thematic.’

Grain markets are entering a new era of multipolar tension and demand uncertainty, warns Rabobank, as the stability of post-Cold War trade norms give way to a more volatile order.

The vehicle is invested exclusively across French timberland and has amassed a 35,000ha portfolio.

The issuer of the USDT stablecoin cryptocurrency has leaned on agricultural assets as a means of reinforcing its self-styled role as a stabilizing force in financial markets.

The carbon credits platform was established by TPG in 2022 and will pursue afforestation, reforestation and revegetation projects to supply the credits.

The Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting specter has clouded otherwise straight-forward expectations for ad-hoc payments that have already helped shape regional farmland markets.

Managing director Amrita Vatsal says the firm is hopeful that the involvement of Microsoft, which has strict due diligence procedures for carbon credit projects, will help de-risk its strategy for other LPs.

Chad Rushing says producers have pulled back their acquisitions, creating a less crowded market that could bring equity and debt opportunities to farmland investors over the coming year.