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The Dutch lender has invited other financial institutions to contribute to the facility, which is likely to become operational next year.
Less active as competitors for land and facing succession issues, US farmers are giving a jolt to the market by divesting assets, panelists said at the Agri Investor Forum.
A series of transactions sees the collaboration between several LPs and Silver Creek Asset Management add the pension to its ranks, along with an additional 121,000 acres of timberland.
At the Agri Investor Forum this week, experts examined the factors that keep farmers from adopting new technologies and the emergence of early 'winners' in agtech.
An examination of global agriculture reveals both encouraging signs of near-term opportunity and large uncertainties about the future, according to panelists at the Agri Investor Forum in Chicago on Wednesday.
The emerging markets specialist hopes to benefit from increasing acceptance of private-label food among consumers in the region.
The amount offered by Cooke Aquaculture to take Omega Protein private represents a 32.5% premium to the company's October 5 closing price.
The move bolsters the Canadian metals specialist's drive to give LPs access to investments with 'low correlation to the broader market.'
Although Ukraine’s endowment of arable land is the largest in Europe, its agricultural productivity lags regional peers, the World Bank says.
Nick Stokes will work across the Iowa-based firm’s alternative lending platforms, the latest of which focuses on borrowers that do not meet traditional underwriting criteria.