Nora Zhou
The Dutch VC firm has invested $5.6m into LemnaTec, the agricultural data analysis and phenomics company.
Conterra Asset Management entered into a joint venture with Farmer Mac to provide fee appraisal services for farmland owners and is targeting a $100m first close of its agribusiness PE fund later this year.
A new report from the estate agency covers opportunities in sale-leaseback, the Northern beef market, the almond market, the wine grape market, the water market, fisheries and aquaculture and the New Zealand market.
Lazard, the US financial advisory and asset management firm, has hired Alberto Weisser as senior advisor for global agribusiness and related sectors in its financial advisory department.
The USDA’s Economic Research Services is predicting farm profitability will fall by 32% on 2014, although farm wealth will stay at record levels.
3D Robotics raised the Series C round from a range of angel and VC firms as investment into the technology surpassed $80m in 2014.
The NYSE-listed REIT released its annual earnings report last week detailing a net loss of $671,300. Nasdaq-listed peer Gladstone Land reported a net loss of $125,000 on the year.
Arcadia Biosciences, which wants to list on Nasdaq, is backed by BASF Venture Capital, Mandala Capital, CMEA Ventures and Saints Capital among others.
The life sciences venture capital firm is raising $200 million for its second fund that will have a strong focus on agricultural innovation. VC firm AVAC and BayerCrop Science have invested into the fund as partners.
The $155m Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners LP has made its first investment into a cage-free chicken egg producer, Iowa Cage-Free.