Livestock

Sherpa Asset Management's agri investment arm will soon close on around $40m of commitments across two projects in Colombia and Peru.

UK private equity firm Terra Firma is selling a A$300 million equity stake in its Australia beef cattle portfolio company after returning the company to profit.

Australian Pastoral Funds Management recently took Agri Investor on a tour of northern Queensland cattle ranch Neumayer Valley Station – and talked about a number of core industry issues along the way.

Beefmaster Holdings is the second agri investment for sub-Saharan African focused fund One Thousand & One Voices.

Growth Farms Australia Fund I, the Australian sheep and cropping farmland fund, has acquired a farm aggregation in Northern New South Wales, its second acquisition.

John Corbett, director of Hassad Australia, told delegates at Agri Investor’s inaugural Australia Forum in Melbourne this morning that Australia ticked many boxes for the Qatari Investment Authority's agri ambitions.

With the help from IFC, the Singapore subsidiary of New Hope plans to create more than 1,500 new jobs in ten countries in South and South-East Asia.

First Guardian Agriculture's Australian Agriculture Fund is now targeting A$800m and will invest across commodities and parts of the value chain.

IFC invested $3.8m into Nepalese poultry feed producer Probiotech Industries alongside the Private Sector Window of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program.

SEDCO Capital's agribusiness private equity fund will soon make its first investment into non-land assets. It is targeting $150m by the end of the year.