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HighQuest Group hosts eight major agriculture conferences a year including those for the Global AgInvesting series, the Oilseed & Grain Trade Summit, the Organic & Non-GMO Forum, and the Women in Agribusiness Summit, U.S. and Europe.
Please see the links below for some of the media pick-ups from the company's 2016 flagship Global AgInvesting 2016, which took place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, April 25-28, 2016.
Featured speakers at the event, which attracts some 600 attendees, included Chris Soules, of The Bachelor TV series, a lifelong farmer who spoke on From Farm to Fame to Farm Again, and Paul Pittman, CEO of Farmland Partners, who spoke on Row Crops, Specialty Crops & Permanent Crops - A Comparative Analysis.
MAY 2016
May 4 Four stories from Mergermarket & Dealreporter: on Geosys, GiSC, ZeaKal and B. Zaitz & Sons, by Marlene Givant Star and Nicholas Clayton
May 4 Ag Investors Wrestle with Diversification Challenges, by Tom Stabile, FundFire, a FT publication
APRIL 2016
April 27 Cloud Biology in Agriculture: Taking Big Data to a New Level, by Matthew Crips, AgFunder
April 26 Finistere, IRC Team Up on on New Ag Fund Willow Hill Ventures, by Frank Vinluan of Xconomy
April 20 How Private Equity Giant KKR and Sundrop Farms Are Spending $100m on Indoor Agriculture, by Louisa-Burwood Taylor of AgFunder
April 13 From the Field... with Chris Soules, Google+ posting