Chuck Stanley
A partnership with Eastern Colorado Seeds sees the precision agtech company's expand further, expanding its reach into eight western Plains states.
The new venture will use IFC's farmland base and Finistere's scientific testing programme to accelerate growth and commercialisation in its portfolio companies.
The Singapore-based agribusiness company will invest the money in processing facilities in India and Nigeria that source produce from smallholder farmers.
The disease has had a devastating effect on Florida's citrus growers, driving projected orange production in the state down by 27 percent this year.
F&W Forestry Services has bought more than half a million acres of timberland across the US, Canada and UK, as well as snapping up three real estate and forestry management companies.
In natural resources, only energy is more popular among sovereign wealth funds than farmland and agri investment.
The company had targeted speciality crops and turf, but is developing a biochar-based soil treatment aimed at large-scale grain producers.
A 7% increase in pork production offset decreases in all other categories of US red meat production.
Lenders have told a Congressional panel that macroeconomic conditions are hurting farmer incomes, stretching credit thin and locking out younger farmers.
New South Wales and Victoria deals dominated Chinese investment into Australia.