Sustainability

Kilter Rural’s water general manager Euan Friday tells Agri Investor about his firm’s water strategies, as well as its new Murray-Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund’s ecological aims.

The government funding comes on the heels of an $8 million commitment from a high net worth group.

The number of certified organic food and agribusiness operations in the US is four times the number in 2002, according to the USDA.

The company said its lack of scale in Brazil’s ethanol market drove the decision to sell off the production facilities and sugar plantation.

The equity firm and the University of Edinburgh have created Roslin Technologies to invest in agtech university spin-outs.

For investors, technology to prevent or monetise waste is as appealing as improvements in productivity.

The PE-backed company hopes improved weather data and analytics will set it apart from a growing precision agri field.

The company hopes to expand use of its precision agri platform from 140,000 to 1m acres in 2016.

The US packaged foods group expects sales of its natural and organic products to reach $1bn by 2019.

Ethanol's lower-than-petrol pricing meant the amount put into fuel went up in 2015.