Values

The UK health charity has agreed to buy the cooperative's farming business for £249m ($420m; €314m).

Sustained drought in the northern states of Australia has caused a squeeze on cattle supply.

The agri data and analytics company was sold by SFW Capital, a New York-based private equity firm; its third time to change hands in six years.

From real assets funds of funds to vertically integrated agribusiness offerings – fund managers are responding to investors' diversification needs.

The first in a series of articles about regenerative agriculture as an agri investment strategy, this piece aims to introduce some of the concepts behind the movement.

Gaining investment exposure to UK farmland is near impossible. But issuing loans to UK farmers provides access and enables investors to do some good, argues Robert Bourn, partner at Agri Partners.

The bodies’ joint annual agricultural report, the Agricultural Outlook, predicts that agriculture prices will continue to fall from recent peaks and will stabilise at pre-2008 levels on the back of increased production globally.

Newly launched Agri Partners is offering debt exposure to UK farmland through private funding syndicates. It has completed its first two deals.

The UK-based estate agent is expanding its international farmland advisory and surveying business by recruiting two new members of staff to the International Farmland team.

Strong demand and less leverage means there is no bubble in North American farmland values, according to John Goodreds, senior director, natural resources.