Chris Janiec
Training in farming practices and efficient water use will come as part of a $40m program designed to help aid the West African nation recover from civil war.
The deal sponsor hopes to use IF&P Foods as a platform to build a regional produce distributor focused on the Midwest and surrounding areas.
The acquisition of Southern States Cooperative of Virginia will allow Cargill’s animal nutrition unit to expand service to customers on the US East Coast.
The Canadian fund management firm expects to bring in up to C$500m by year end for an open-ended fund understood to follow an agricultural investing strategy modeled on that of PSP Investments.
Real Asset Portfolio Management, which has advised institutions on more than $1bn in agri investments, says farmland beat all other asset classes over the last 35 years by posting returns of 11.6%.
Houston-based EIV Capital’s $47m investment in AMP Americas will support plans to expand production of biogas using dairy waste as a feedstock.
Regulatory filings suggest the tie-up, focused on family-owned processing businesses, has raised nearly half of its $600m target.
The farmland REIT paid nearly $10m for the property, which is to be operated under a six-year lease to an Ohio-headquartered cabbage grower.
Analitus will compliment Global ID’s existing presence in the South American nation, where food safety has become a prominent national issue.
The $300m acquisition of San-Francisco-based Granular includes both a farm management software platform and AcreValue.com, which aggregates data relating to the US farmland market.