On Wednesday, Sentera, the Minnesota agtech startup whose artificial intelligence (AI)-powered decision optimizer for farming is used in more than 70 countries, announced that it…
Investable UniverseJune 9, 2021
On Thursday, Arkansas fractional farmland investment platform AcreTrader--which was featured on an episode of the Investable Universe podcast--announced that it has raised a $12 million…
Investable UniverseMarch 11, 2021
Agriculture venture capital firm AgFunder has released the results of its 2020 food and farm tech investing report, pointing to a bumper year for agriculture…
Investable UniverseFebruary 24, 2021
“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…
Investable UniverseJanuary 5, 2021
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…
Investable UniverseNovember 9, 2020
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…
Investable UniverseNovember 5, 2020
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…
Investable UniverseOctober 9, 2020
With the approach of the fall corn and soybean harvest, it bears remembering that cash crops aren’t the only yields of U.S. soil. The farmland…
Investable UniverseSeptember 25, 2020
Slicing (and securitizing) the breadbasket: for the roughly 40% of the $3 trillion in U.S. farmland owned by non-farmers, acreage is an investment. And historically,…
Investable UniverseFebruary 3, 2020