Louisa Burwood-Taylor
The timberland investment manager has hired Geoffrey Seeto as managing director of New Forests Asia to lead the expansion and consolidation of its Asian business.
ASURO Group, co-founded by Robert Talevski and Summer Yan, will raise funds to invest at various points along the food chain and is targeting between A$50m and A$100m.
The age-old method of valuing farming properties based on comparisons with neighbouring sales can help managers find undervalued acquisition opportunities, investment managers argued.
Regenerative agriculture-focused fund manager Farmland LP has acquired a property in Willamette Valley, Oregon, from family-owned Olsen Agricultural Enterprise.
Growth Farms Australia Fund I, the Australian sheep and cropping farmland fund, has acquired a farm aggregation in Northern New South Wales, its second acquisition.
In case you missed it, last week Agri Investor held its inaugural Australia Forum in Melbourne, hosting nearly 200 investors, fund managers, government officials, consultants and corporates.
Rawdon Briggs, the director of transaction services, rural & agribusiness at Colliers International, talks about how the agri investment landscape has changed over the last 12 months and areas of opportunity, in this video from Agri Investor’s Australia Forum.
At first glance, agriculture and agribusiness investment may seem like a very small niche within the alternatives market, but it's incredibly diverse. This Almanac supplement offers an in-depth look at a number of agri's sub-sectors.
Impact investment firm Aurora Impact and the Savory Institute are launching the Future Ready Now project in June to attract investment into a grasslands restoration fund. Pension funds and sustainable clothing companies are among the attendees.
A sixth-generation farmer talks family offices, strategy, returns and time frames.