Investment

Forestry represents just 0.1% of ACC’s investment portfolio, it says.

26 Seasons announces new capital raise through Snowball Effect.

Centuria NZ Agricultural Property Fund the first NZ venture by Centuria Capital Group in Australia.

NZ Rural Land is eyeing European investors to make up rights issue shortfall.

Capital raising round to help buy $64m of forestry land in Manawatū-Whanganui.

Ingka Group granted permission to convert sheep, beef and deer farm to forestry.

If you can’t understand it, don’t get involved, says Steve Wyn-Harris.

Rural investments are lining up well against urban opportunities.

Electric bike company opens the throttle in the US.

The Argyll Group of three farms and a support block with over 2000 cows in milk is seeking wholesale investors for $5 million or more.

MyFarm is offering a rural commercial property investment in the Taranaki poultry industry consisting of $16.7 million raised…

The S&P/NZX Primary Sector Equity Index has fallen by 13% since the beginning of the year as nervous investors sell down shares in agricultural companies despite high commodity prices.

Canterbury-based food innovation Leaft Foods is creating an opportunity for New Zealand agriculture to lead the global plant protein market with potential to reach $US36 billion by 2024.

Blue Sky Meat’s largest shareholder won’t sell to an undervalued offer from Southern Lamb Investments, which has all but sewn up control of the Invercargill meat company.

The acquisition is viewed as complementary to Anzco’s existing biotech business, and both will continue to operate independently.

INDEPENDENT directors of takeover target Blue Sky Meats are urging shareholders not to sell just yet, despite owners of three of the largest shareowners having committed to do so.

PLANT-BASED protein company Sustainable Foods (SFL) is part way through a $2 million fundraising to build its range of products with capital development and employ more staff members...

Dairy co-operative Fonterra and India’s Future Consumer agreed to wind down a small joint venture in India after significant challenges caused by covid-19.

MyFarm has raised $13 million from wholesale investors for the purchase and planting of 1200ha to 1300ha medium to hard hill country under the heading CQuest Carbon and Forestation Fund.

The presence of established, mature agritech companies and a greater abundance of venture capital funds have enabled New Zealand to step up as a more attractive country for agritech investment in recent years.

Two cornerstone shareholders have launched a $3 a share takeover bid for the small Southland meat exporter, Blue Sky Meats.

Less than a year after successfully raising its first fund, kiwifruit investment company Origin Capital is again seeking funds exclusively for kiwifruit sector investment.

Changes to rules that allow foreign investors to buy farmland for conversion to forestry, will affect about 20% of property purchases, a recent study shows.

In a first-time joint venture for Bostock New Zealand, the company has partnered up with equity company Milford Private Equity to purchase orchards growing a high-value apple variety for the North American market.

Delegat Group is focusing this year’s capital investment on developing Marlborough vineyards, as it pushes to grow global sales by 25% over the next three years.

The risk of ownership concentration in Fonterra arising from proposed changes in the share standard will not adversely affect the co-operative, according to investment bankers and corporate advisors Northington Partners.

MyFarm has opened the second half of a fundraising for planting medium to hard hill country in Pinus radiata, after $7.5 million was committed by wholesale investors in the first stage.