Nora Zhou

Agriculture fund managers are taking a relatively positive stance on California’s drought and see it as an exercise in cautious farm management despite the raft of recent legislation aimed at conserving water at home and on farms.

The Brazilian food and agribusiness private equity firm has acquired Dimicron to merge with existing portfolio company Aminoagro, creating one of Brazil's largest fertiliser platforms.

The Public Sector Pension Investment Board made its first rural land purchase in Australia through a joint-venture with the Australian Hewitt Cattle Company.

Ontario will inject $60 million into building forest access roads in 2015 and 2016.

The venture capital firm expects that agriculture technology firms will make up a portion of the $125m Opportunity Fund.

The agriculture technology sector raised over $1bn in Q1 2015, nearly half of the $2.36bn raised during 2014, according to a recent report from AgFunder.

Venture capital-backed Sweetwater Energy secured a bridge loan ahead of establishing the company's first commercial biomass-to-biochemical conversion facility.

With a focus on making acquisitions and investments in the emerging legal cannabis sector, Tumbleweed Holdings has hired two management executives to help with a growing pipeline of deals.

Grannus closed a Series A round of financing with a $2m investment from an undisclosed strategic investor.

The $105 billion Washington State Investment Board has approved a $300m commitment to the row- and permanent-crop farmland management company, taking the pension's agri exposure to $1.1bn.