Chris Janiec
Paine Schwartz Partners managing director Adam Fless outlines how private equity's traditional 100-day plan is adjusted for agriculture investments.
The farmland REIT invested nearly $30m in six farms across North Carolina and southwestern Arizona.
The $402.5m deal includes more than 300,000 acres of timberland and a plywood and veneer manufacturing business in the South American nation.
The second vehicle from the Brazilian firm will target annual returns of up to 20% with investments in South American assets across the value chain.
Westfeeds, a subsidiary of Lariat Partners portfolio company Northern Agri Holdings, has been acquired by Alltech-subsidiary Ridley USA.
Valued at $446m, including a debt refinancing to come, the take-private sees will see HGGC acquire the company's portfolio of more than 70 health food and supplement brands.
The $100m investment in FKS Food and Agri aims to bolster the company’s logistics and processing operations for both domestic and wider South-East Asian markets.
An SEC filing recently revealed $35m in funding designed to support private equity-backed vertical farming business AeroFarms' plans to expand into the Middle East and Asia.
The two-year study will result in an informational bulletin and policy brief designed to encourage novel land access and tenure security for small and medium-sized US farmers.
Panelists at the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum in New York compared notes on investors’ expectations as aquaculture expands from salmon into other species including yellowtail, shrimp and red drum.