“All farmers are optimists” is the truism attributed to humorist Will Rogers. But Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture and the global exchange operator CME…
On Monday, the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), which invests (and seeks to attract private investment) in complex, innovative, revenue-generating infrastructure in the public interest and on behalf…
On Wednesday, Los Alamos startup UbiQD (Ubiquitous Quantum Dots), a leading developer of the advanced material known as quantum dots for light control in agriculture…
On Wednesday, Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, have announced the completion of the first renewable natural gas (RNG) production project…
On Monday, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), a division of Macquarie Group and one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, announced that one…
On Thursday, FirstLight, a U.S. provider of fiberoptic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to customers in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, announced…
It’s not FarmVille—it’s better! Crop farming meets crowdfunding on FarmTogether, a new online investment platform that is backed by Franklin Templeton Legg Mason, the global…
On Wednesday, West Coast agtech and vertical farming startup Plenty Unlimited announced that it has secured $140 million in Series D funding. Existing investor SoftBank’s Vision…
On Thursday, a new investment management firm focused on the real assets of agriculture and food production announced its existence. Newly anointed fund manager Solum…