Grosvenor Food & AgTech’s Post

📈 Meet Agrícola 76 – a renowned organic produce company in Mexico. Discover how they harnessed ProducePay's Pre-Season Financing to amplify their production capacity and cater to the escalating consumer demand. 💡 With the backing of ProducePay, Agrícola 76 was able to secure the essential working capital, bypassing the traditional, slow, and complex banking processes. This enabled a seamless expansion of their organic produce cultivation. 🎯 Armed with immediate financial support, Agrícola 76 remains steadfast in delivering high-quality, organic produce to the markets of the United States and Canada, assured that their financial needs are met promptly and efficiently. ✨ Dive into their journey and uncover how ProducePay's tailored financial solutions can be the catalyst to elevating your agricultural ventures. 🔗 Explore the full story: https://hubs.la/Q026Gh1q0 #ProducePay #PreSeasonFinancing #OrganicProduce #OperationalExpansion #FinancialSupport

Exciting News! 🌟 Viserion Grain LLC to acquire soybean crushing facility in port of #Barcelona 🌱 Elian Barcelona, a Viserion Oilseed Processing subsidiary, is acquiring a key soybean crushing facility at the #Port of #Barcelona from #Cargill. This strategic move enhances our commitment to innovation and sustainability, with plans to expand production capacity for a diverse range of sustainable feed and food ingredients in European and Mediterranean markets. 🌍 Stay tuned for updates as we embark on this transformative journey! 🚀 #Agrifood #Innovation #Sustainability

Nuseed welcomes Chantelle Donahue as Global Lead, Value Chain and Trade Nuseed continues to redefine innovation in our industry with a fundamental focus on enabling new sustainable value from agriculture in response to the megatrends that are reshaping cross-industry challenges and opportunities. Nuseed’s capabilities, intellectual property, and fields of innovation span from seed technologies and agronomic solutions to application technologies of our unique products in human and animal nutrition, aquaculture, soil and carbon science, bioenergy applications, and advanced processing. As Nuseed continues to transition toward much larger identity-preserved value chains and delivery of novel oils to downstream customers, we are excited to announce and welcome Chantelle Donahue as our Global Lead, Value Chain and Trade. In this newly created role, Chantelle will be charged with scaling and optimizing the grain and oil production and trade strategy across all Nuseed platforms. Partnering across our global and regional teams she will evolve our value chain trade strategy, progress the supply/demand management of grains and oils, identify and lead global partnerships and contracts with third-party oil and grain trade systems, and provide oversight to farm grain contracting strategies and pricing. Chantelle has more than 20 years of leadership, including several years at the vice president level. During her career, she has had various responsibilities including the strategy and execution of functional business plans, external and government affairs, trade relations, and sustainable feedstock transition strategy. Chantelle also has valuable global experience with various commodities, value chains, and specialty ingredients, more recently providing direction and strategy for products and services in North America, Europe, Australia, and other markets. The expansion of our leadership, innovation, and value chain and trade strategy will be instrumental in our continued pursuit of delivering Value Beyond Yield® to our growers, partners, end-use customers, consumers, and our planet. #Nuseed #valuechain #innovation

📈 Meet Agrícola 76, the pride of Sonora, Mexico. Focussed on the cultivation of Persian cucumber, grapes, and tomatoes, they faced challenges in expanding their production to meet surging demands. Enter ProducePay's Pre-Season Financing. 💡 Where traditional banks posed barriers with their tedious processes, ProducePay emerged as the perfect ally. Agrícola 76 secured the crucial working capital, ensuring an uninterrupted expansion of their organic cultivation, without the stress of land collateral. 🎯 Today, Agrícola 76 stands tall, reaffirming their commitment to delivering premium organic produce to the US and Canada, while enjoying a streamlined financial backing from ProducePay. ✨ Dive deep into their journey and see how, with the right partner, you too can redefine your agricultural dreams. 🔗 Read the full story: https://hubs.la/Q028hMT-0 #ProducePay #PreSeasonFinancing #OrganicProduce #BusinessGrowth #Agricola76Success

Shiok Meats, which is a portfolio company of Agronomics Limited, has been acquired by Umami Bioworks in a share-for-share transaction. UMAMI Bioworks is a company that focuses on cultivated seafood using advanced technologies and aims to scale sustainable seafood production. This merger is expected to create synergies that will accelerate market introduction and regulatory approvals of cultivated seafood, leading to enhanced market efficiencies. After the transaction, Agronomics holds a 0.71% equity ownership in UMAMI Bioworks, with a book value of £0.378 million. This strategic combination underscores the commitment to advancing sustainable food solutions in the cellular agriculture space. Read more here -> https://lnkd.in/eUCQ22CA

Interested to know how RDC's are working together to approach agrifood commercialisation? 🚀 Hear from industry experts how Dairy Australia, Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Wine Australia share their strategies, and how AgriFutures growAG is helping drive impact. 👉 Paul Smith, Development & Extension (RD&E) Program Manager at Wine Australia says: “It’s been really valuable to have the transparency of our projects on growAG as well as the visibility over other RDC projects. This helps us to meet our transparency requirements and ensures people can be aware of what we're doing.” 👉 Emily Samyue, Head of Innovation at Dairy Australia said: “As a result of going through this process with growAG and building our connections and partnerships within the agritech ecosystem, we are more open to looking at investing in these types of organisations, whether it be financial or non-financial investments.” 👉 Fernando Felquer, Business Development and Commercialisation Manager at GRDC says: “The growAG concierge team has made great introductions to expand our international reach and in Australia, which is valuable for potential investment opportunities and connecting us with other investors, such as Carrot Ventures.” Read the full story on growAG 👇

🥳 Successful finale – the Coffee Innovation Fund concludes more projects         The Coffee Innovation Fund (CIF), active since 2019, has successfully concluded the second half of its second round. The fund had the goal of making coffee cultivation more profitable for smallholder farmers at the start of the coffee value chain. The projects of the fund were financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the INA which is part of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.        ☕ Which concrete results did the projects achieve for participating smallholder farmers?      In #uganda, #rwanda, and #kenya as part of the second half of the second round 12 innovative pilot projects got implemented. Through these around 7.000 smallholder farmers were reached directly. Since 2019 the coffee innovation fund supported a total of approximately 60.000 smallholders.        Through innovative production and processing as well as through the development of digital applications market access was improved for 4.090 participants. Next to the main goal of making coffee cultivation more profitable, other aspects such as income diversification, digitalisation, value chains free from deforestation, environmental protection, marketing, and female empowerment were additional foci. Accordingly, around 40% of project participants were women.    In spring 2024 the results from the CIF will be shared at our event “Four Years Coffee Innovation Fund – Results and Impacts”. Additionally, recipe books showcasing insights from the various projects will be published. Upon completion, they will be made public to ensure that the knowledge gained from the projects can be used in the future.        The Coffee Innovation Fund cordially thanks all participants and partners for the valuable collaboration, their dedication, and the great time spent together.        More information on the CIF and the recipe books from round one can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e3graPR5 

🔹 Elian Barcelona, a Viserion International, LLC International subsidiary, to acquire a soybean crushing plant from Cargill in Barcelona. 🔹 The soybean crushing facility will create a European Union operator, making the market more flexible and providing #Barcelona with a key industry in the agri-food sector. 🗣 Andres Martin, CEO and founder of Elian Barcelona said: "We are proud to acquire and advance this important Catalan processing plant as we build a more resilient food system across Europe." 🗣 Aaron Wiegand, Chief Executive Officer at Viserion International, stated: "The acquisition of this strategically located plant, integral to Catalonia's food supply, deepens Viserion International's long-term commitment to the European market." 🗣 Jason Kellman, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Pinnacle Asset Management Group, Inc., highlighted, "We believe that the addition of this crushing facility is a compelling opportunity to expand the Viserion platform to accelerate its continued investment in the critical European feed and food product supply chain." Read the full story ⤵ https://lnkd.in/d4VccSzj #InvestInCatalonia

Our deputy general director, Antonio Román, highlights how in the first part of the 2023/2024 fruit and vegetable campaign, Grupo Agroponiente has achieved outstanding results that reflect the success of its production and sales strategy. There was a 4% increase in both volume and turnover, compared to the same period of the previous year. Román highlighted the crucial role of growers and pointed out that the company has opted for internationalization in its production, supply and sales, which has given positive results in a short period of time. Grupo Agroponiente hopes to continue growing in the second part of the campaign, with optimistic projections for the company's international expansion. These results have returned Agroponiente to its leadership position in the sector. #AgroponienteLíder #MindfulAgriculture #WeKeepGrowing

✅ APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture is opening our doors to MNCs working along the cultivated meat & seafood supply chain and CMS companies located outside of the APAC region. 👀 Opening our membership allows for companies looking to expand into the APAC region to have access to insights on the policy and regulatory developments in the Asia markets. 📥 Reach out to me or Peter Yu if you would like to know more. #cultivatedmeat #cultivatedseafood #supplychain #cellularagriculture #membership #apac #policy #regulation #asiamarket