Food Processing

Glencore’s merger with Bunge brings CPPIB and BCI into the evolving quartet at the heart of global ag trade, albeit in a less direct form than if it had succeeded in creating a true rival.

Paine Schwartz Partners, which previously invested in Costa from 2011-15 before listing it, has bid to acquire it again in a deal worth A$1.6bn.

Participants at the Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins conference in New York drew encouragement from the USDA's approval of cultivated chicken while examining challenges and opportunities across a diverse set of markets.

Principal Steven Loeffler says the firm will continue to be active in the M&A market and intends to 'go hard' across QualiTech’s markets of animal nutrition, agronomy and food ingredients.

Chief executive Lionel Kambeitz says Above Foods will look to partner with large-scale regenerative operations developed in Saskatchewan, amid regional restrictions on institutional farmland investment.

The Iowa-based firm specializes in providing growth equity capital and succession planning liquidity.

The Indiana-headquartered farmland manager has hired Rick Bodio and Finley Merrill this year to support the expansion.

The firm closed Anterra FA Ventures II in February 2022 but the vehicle is still only 30% deployed because the firm correctly judged the agtech market to be overpriced – now it's ready to go shopping.

The property was acquired from Nasdaq-listed business Limoneira Company, which will provide packing and marketing services on a minimum five-year contract.

PSP Investments has purchased assets owned by Macadamias Australia through its Australian nut platform Stahmann Webster, taking control of more than 1,000 ha of planted orchards.