Farmland owners can now put the headache – and potential financial heartache – in the hands of Tillable with its first-of-its-kind lease arrangement service.
You may have seen The Production Board crop up on a few agrifood tech investments, but there’s little publicly-available information about the investment holding company founded by David Friedberg. Until now.
Former Climate Corp CEO David Friedberg has invested in Tillable through his investment holding company The Production Board.
According to the report, some $85 million worth of farmland in its first fund — Vital Farmland LP — generated a financial return of 67%, but also $21.4 million in ecosystem service value, which accrues to the surrounding communities and environment.
We caught up with farmland investor Shonda Warner to find out where frustrations with agtech startups start for farmers, and what low commodities prices mean for tech startups.
While a number of outside investors have been great assets to our industry, many others have been a net negative for agriculture, writes Jim Budzynski.
Drew Fox asks, is farmland investment the best way to access the opportunity in agriculture, or is there a better solution?
We are very proud of the coverage we’ve given the food and agriculture technology market over the year, but there are always, of course, stories in other publications that we wish we’d written!
Catch up on a diversified week of fundings in the food and agtech market as things start to heat up as we approach the end of the year.
It was a busy week for the agriculture sector including anti-Trump CEOs, cannabis legalization, organic farmland increases and GMO bans.
Sixty-seven percent of the large institutional investors invested in agriculture in Prequin’s database said they were interested in investing in agtech.
US farmland values fell 0.2 percent in Q3, representing a shift from 0.7 percent growth during Q2. Whole Foods is in a spot over two cases of Hepatitis in Detroit, while Western Growers plans to award startups at its upcoming AGM.
Public and philanthropic investors provide the bulk of funding for initiative trying to reverse or prevent land degradation globally, but there’s a role for private investors too, argues Renee Cheung, founder of Bonterra Partners.
Today BEE, a Mexican-American agricultural venture development firm, comes out of stealth to launch an end-to-end agriculture platform for emerging markets.
An Australian farmland fund joined a drone company, microbe manufacturer, consumer products, and food e-commerce startup to raise funding and highlighting the diversity of the ag investment space.
A private equity exit, a new hire in the farmland investment market, continued public concern over GE food labeling, and the plight of the bee contribute to this week’s industry-in-brief.
Local pension funds are starting to show interest in the country’s agriculture sector again, according to QIC.
Fish traceability, Paine & Partners Verdesian Life Sciences, farmland investment, GMO labeling, and dangerous pesticides make up this week’s Industry-in-Brief.
Willow Hill Ventures will invest in growth stage agtech companies beyond Series B stage taking advantage of IFC’s portfolio of farmland across the US.
Three industry mergers & acquisitions top this week’s Industry-in-Brief as the debate over GM salmon and food labeling continues, and a Saudi Arabian dairy company’s purchase of alfalfa land in California causes concern.
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