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Chris Janiec

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.
A family office-backed marijuana investment vehicle is raising a fund designed to provide investors with exposure to the burgeoning legal cannabis industry.
With wheat stocks at record levels, US farmers significantly reduced plantings in 2016, which could signal a potential shift for some farmers to other row crops.
The farmland REIT paid $54m for a farmland property in a region it says is pressured by real estate development.
Sami Khan has joined Rabo Equity Advisors, an India-focused private equity fund sponsored by Rabobank.
Athens, Greece-headquartered Eurodrip has agreed to merge with Rivulis Irrigation of Israel.
Participation in the $4.25m funding round for Kuli Kuli marks the first investments from eighteen94, Kellogg’s $100m venture fund designed to give the company exposure to innovative food ideas.
The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) quadrennial report on global trends highlights agricultural risks and opportunities between now and 2035.
Sun-Capital-owned soup and salad restaurant chain’s sale of assets is designed to bring the company out of a Chapter 11 process it started in October as the company struggled within rising wage costs.
Farmer Mac’s Curt Covington offers Agri Investor his thoughts on farmland values, alternative lenders and the specter of the 1980s for farmers in their approach to leverage.
Vestar Capital Partners–owned Roland Foods has secured $125m in a recapitalization led by Harvest Partners SCF.
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