The Overseas Investment Office has granted a consent for American businessman Sjerp William Ysselstein to buy 288 hectares of farmland in Marlborough’s Kenepuru Sounds to construct a feedlot.
CRF II has made its first investment in a 155-acre permanent crop property growing kiwi and citrus in California; an acquisition that solidifies CR as one of the largest institutional investor owners of bearing kiwi acreage in the US.
National Family Farm Coalition says legislation would curtail the alarming rising trend of investment firms, pension funds, and other multinational corporations snatching up farmland across the US, often using shady and exploitative practices against food producers and local communities.
American fund manager RRG Capital Management is preparing to sell its third major horticultural venture as it accelerates a sell-off of its Aussie farms.
US Senator Cory Booker is working to end the Wall Street buy-up of farmland across the nation by reintroducing the Farmland for Farmers Act, legislation that would limit corporate ownership of farmland in the United States.
Selon les termes de l'accord, Palantir déploiera un logiciel opérationnel conçu pour sécuriser les terres agricoles face aux étrangers
Component Earth, a new carbon finance company announced the close of an over $50 million facility from global commodities leader Trafigura that will be used to scale the Lake Victoria Watershed Agroforestry Carbon Project in Kenya from its initial 15,000 hectares to 35,000 hectares, and potentially beyond.
FarmTogether is now offering exposure to one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. permanent cropland with the launch of Riviera Avocado Grove, the firm’s first expansion into avocado production.
Taylor Farms, which has greenhouse facilities across the US, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, announces it has acquired leafy green producer Equinox Growers from Generate Capital.
Saudi-Arabian farming company Fondomonte wants a judge to pause a lawsuit against it, arguing new groundwater protections could resolve the issues in the case. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes disagrees.
The vast majority of over two million landowners who rented out 347.8 million acres of agricultural land in 2024 were non-farming landlords. About 5% of the nearly 900 million US farmland acres, or about 43 million acres, will change hands in the next five years.
A portfolio of four southern Queensland dryland cropping farms have been sold at auction by the US-based private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners for $19m combined.
