Nora Zhou
Integrated Ag has created Integrated Ag Labs, a programme designed to innovate and test new agtech and advanced farm practices in order to boost water and energy efficiency, lower operating costs, increase crop yield and improve plant health.
The property comprises 1067 hectares of mature almond groves that are owned by Macquarie Farm Assets and Resources Management.
Spruce Capital's Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund II has recently started investing in agtech. Co-managing partner Ganesh Kishore, who has over 30 years of experience in agtech, shares his views on the sector.
Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners invested $7m in Pacific Ag, which harvests and sells crop waste.
The purchase from Flight Group was part of a larger deal which also saw Timberlink, an investee company of New Forests, bought sawmilling assets from Flight Timbers.
Development of sales channels, rather than the size of the investment, is the key factor for making a positive investment return in the Chinese beef market, the report says.
Yield Lab is one of four accelerators in Cultivation Capital's portfolio.
Funding will be used to build an irrigation dam in Mumbwa District in Zambia.
The new hire, Shane McIntyre, was appointed as the national director of rural & agribusiness and will based out of Colliers' Melbourne office.
G3 Global has made a C$250m purchase of a 50.1 percent stake in the former Canadian Wheat Board.