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Data from sales and lettings agency Knight Frank shows farmland in England Wales was valued at more £9,000 per acre for the first time in Q4 2023.

Former AACo CEO Hugh Killen will lead the firm in Australia as founder Bert Glover shifts internally to oversee growth in the US.

Following protests over ag-related environmental policies in Australia, Spain, France and the Netherlands in recent years, German farmers came onto the streets this month in a reminder of how quickly political decisions can raise the ire of farmers.

The third acquisition for the Roc Agri+ Infrastructure Fund is also Roc Partners’ first agricultural investment in New Zealand.

New Forests’ second Tropical Asia Forest Fund has ended up raising less capital than its predecessor, which closed on $170m in 2012.

The pension is the latest to warm to forestry, after the ACCESS Pool signaled its intent to deploy £300m into the asset class earlier this month.

Reduced political programming at the 17th Peoples Company Land Investment Expo could not dislodge policy from the center of discussion amid a cloudy outlook for the US ag sector.

Former Goldcrest and Fall Line Capital executives Tommy Funk and Thiago Lima have been brought in to take the farmland service provider’s suite of offerings into the Southeast and Southern Plains.

CAP managing director Jim Heyes says the team behind MozFibra has laid the business plans necessary to avoid the pitfalls of many past African forestry investments that did not put the required emphasis on market access logistics.

Data from Rural Bank, ANREV and Savills all pointed to farmland values growing less quickly in 2023, with interest rates and high inflation the main culprits.