Commentary

Favorable climatic conditions have set up a bumper grains crop in Australia. But ANZ warns the sector should prepare for ‘the confluence of major global factors’, including covid-19.
A drive for greater transparency and regulatory oversight in the Murray-Darling Basin will make water a more investable asset class for institutions.
Farmland, fog
The mixed experiences reported by placement agents and GPs suggest a positive covid-19 track record is not necessarily a silver bullet on the fundraising trail.
Australian farmland's annualized income return of 9.26% outperformed a capital return of 5.21% to help prop up total annualized income, reinforcing the asset's resiliency credentials.
Rural road
The Canadian pension fund has launched a new strategy to access the budding landscape of agtech companies emerging across the value chain.
Drone spraying a field, agtech, crops
Fiera Comox’s Matthew Corbett and Boston Consulting Group’s Benjamin Subei tell Agri Investor automation and mechanization will solve several workforce issues exposed by the coronavirus.
Meat processing, meat plant, packaged meat
Meat-processing facilities have been identified as hot spots for coronavirus outbreaks since the early stages of the pandemic. The negative impact of this association will have long-term effects.
Productivity Commission finds that negative public perceptions around FDI in agricultural land are ‘not well-supported by evidence’ but concerns over FIRB processing times from investors have some merit.
pumpkin pie
GP-led processes were used to isolate top performing assets during the bull market, so why not the opposite now?
Corn on the cob with EU flag
Plans to reduce use of harmful pesticide and fertilizer products, converting 25% of farmland to organic and incentivizing carbon sequestration is what the industry needs.
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