Canada

Australia: Land price push from family or corporate farms
- The Land
- 13 August 2021
CBRE Agribusiness managing director David Goodfellow says large institutional buyers have a head start on family businesses.
Australia: Supercharged ag investors see value in more than farmland
- QCL
- 04 August 2021
Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.
Corporate farmer buys top Yuna farm
- Farm Weekly
- 26 June 2021
An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million
Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
- Farm Online
- 17 May 2021
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business
- GAI
- 27 April 2021
The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.
Mahi Pono and paraquat: The 2020 sequel
- Politics on Maui
- 23 April 2021
A farm in Maui owned by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board sprayed some 240 gallons of Gramoxone (paraquat) eight times from January to May, 2020
Warakirri to raise $500 million for new fund
- The Land
- 19 April 2021
Australian farmland is an appealing asset class to Canadian-backed investment group, Warakirri Asset Management, with the firm having launched a new fund which expects to raise $500 million.
Case study casts doubt over ESG claims of Canadian pension fund PSP’s major agriculture investment on Maui
- Responsible Markets
- 06 April 2021
Report finds the Canadian based pension plan is not living up to its own environmental, social responsibility, and corporate governance principles, resulting in adverse impacts on Maui’s environment and residents.
Financiarisation des terres agricoles : Quel avenir pour la relève ?
- La Presse canadienne
- 15 Mar 2021
Le fait de laisser les terres agricoles glisser entre les mains de grands propriétaires, de fonds spéculatifs et d’intervenants du secteur immobilier revient à leur céder graduellement notre autonomie alimentaire. Les gouvernements doivent intervenir.
Maximizing the capture of returns, carbon, and duration in Canadian row crop land investments
- GAI
- 12 Mar 2021
Investors trying to decide what world farmland market in which to allocate capital may want to consider an advantage the Canadian market can offer – the ability to participate via an open-ended structure.
Le fonds Walter investit dans les terres agricoles
- La Presse canadienne
- 04 Mar 2021
Gestion d’actifs mondiale Walter de Montréal acquiert une participation majoritaire dans un fonds canadien de terres agricoles. L’objectif est d’obtenir un rendement de 8% à 10%.
Walter Global Asset Management, in partnership with Bonnefield Financial’s management team, acquires Canadian farmland asset management leader
- Walter GAM
- 04 Mar 2021
Walter Global Asset Management says farmland is increasingly attractive to institutional and private investors, which puts Bonnefield in a strong position when it comes to growing its portfolio of Canadian farmland