Louisa Burwood-Taylor

The Church Commissioners for England has acquired a £49m UK forestry portfolio. This takes its timber allocation above target.

For agri-focused investment managers, the need to inform the investing community about the opportunity is still as relevant as ever.

Freight Farms, which makes mobile crop production facilities, raised the funding in a round led by venture capital firm Spark Capital.

Abraaj invested in Yorsan, a Turkish dairy producer, in January. Here, Omar Syed, a managing director, discusses the private equity opportunity in food and agri.

The state's education sector trust will issue an RFP for alternative ownership in the second half of next year after a $3m loss on the forestland in 2013.

The Illinois State Board of Investment is terminating its only investment mandate in the asset class with no plans to make new agri-related investments.

Report says irrigation systems, hybrid seeds and micro-loans can all help poor farmers.

Fonterra’s latest downwards revision of the milk price could hit some dairy farmers hard, according to Agro-Ecological, the New Zealand investment manager.

Resource Management Services, the US-based institutional fund manager, will raise the capital across two funds; one targeting international markets and another targeting the US forestry market.

The management consultancy firm has sent a submission to the government’s Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce in the wake of its crop insurance symposium earlier this month.