According to the USDA’s March 2018 Economic Research Service (ERS) report Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture, agricultural production in the U.S. has been shifting to fewer, but larger farms over the last 3 decades.  According to the 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture, there were about 2.1 million farms in the U.S. compared to 2.2...

The third largest (in terms of area) Russian agroholding Rusagro is reportedly negotiating with a milk manufacturer Alev JSC, located in the Samara region of Russia, on the purchase of its production capacities. Although both companies refuse to comment on the negotiation process, Rusagro is known to have been considering investing in milk...

Four months ago, the Adecoagro group offered $ 400 million for a 90% share of the Argentine dairy cooperative SanCor, but no agreement has yet been reached. The dairy cooperative is now preparing a new plan to avoid bankruptcy. SanCor would transfer its brands and plants to three firms and, in return, it would receive approximately $ 150 million...

The second largest Ukrainian agroholding Ukrlandfarming starts leasing and operating farmland plots that were abandoned for about 20 years. Currently, 4,000 ha in the northern part of the country are being reintegrated by the agroholding. According to the company’s managers, the process of farmland reintegration is time-consuming and may last up to...

Mriya, an agroholding operating 180,000 ha in 6 regions of Ukraine, intends to equip its enterprises with mixing stations for crop protection products. According to the chief operations officer of Mriya, Andriy Grygorov, the first station was launched in May 2018 in the test mode and is now operating at its full capacity. Its total worth amounted...

JBS, the world's largest meat producer, has recovered from its biggest internal financial crisis and has positioned itself positively in the corporate debt market. In addition, the company benefits from the strong demand for meat in the US and the devaluation of the Brazilian real. JBS went into crisis last year, when Wesley and Joesley Batista,...

The agroholding Belaya Ptica, a fourth largest broiler meat producer in Russia, is in a financial crisis. The agroholding’s suppliers have already filed about 100 lawsuits amounting to RUB 230 million (about $ 3.5 million) against the agroholding’s subsidiaries that systematically failed to pay for the supplied equipment and veterinary...