Private Equity

ASURO Group, co-founded by Robert Talevski and Summer Yan, will raise funds to invest at various points along the food chain and is targeting between A$50m and A$100m.

In case you missed it, last week Agri Investor held its inaugural Australia Forum in Melbourne, hosting nearly 200 investors, fund managers, government officials, consultants and corporates.

Rawdon Briggs, the director of transaction services, rural & agribusiness at Colliers International, talks about how the agri investment landscape has changed over the last 12 months and areas of opportunity, in this video from Agri Investor’s Australia Forum.

Perdue AgriBusiness, an agri commodity processor, exporter and provider of agri services and logistics, has acquired the US business of Technology Crops International (TCI) to expand its speciality crops business.

The bill will make $75 million of “affordable and flexible growth capital” available to Ohio’s agriculture-focused and rural small businesses.

Stafford Capital Partners closed its $484m timberland fund of funds at the end of May. Partner Thomas Goodrich talks about the maturation of timberland as an asset class and why inefficiences in the sector make secondaries a good opportunity.

Arlon Group acquired The Coastal Companies, a distributor and processor of fresh produce and dairy products in the mid-Atlantic region of the US with its $335m North America fund.

This is Compass Diversified's third acquisition in the past 11 months and the first acquisition made in agribusiness.

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, has €6 billion to allocate and is looking for opportunities in food and agriculture, according to Cathal Fitzgerald, head of food and agriculture investments at ISIF.

The USDA and Farm Credit System-backed PE fund has invested $5m into Hortau, a California-based precision irrigation company.