<![CDATA[iGrow Digest: Agriculture, Energy & Water Investment News]]>4af562d4-416f-54c6-b581-17265c9f036aFri, 13 Nov 2026 18:22:12 +0000Captivate.fmiGrowNewshttps://artwork.captivate.fm/450ab94c-45c8-41d6-ac1c-418d04964529/iGrow-Digest-Cover-Art-Aug-20.jpgiGrow Digest: Agriculture, Energy & Water Investment NewsiGrowNewsiGrowNewsiGrow Digest is a weekly ten-minute briefing on the deals, funding rounds, acquisitions and policy moves reshaping agriculture, energy and water technology. Every Friday: who raised, who bought whom, which technologies cleared regulators, and what it means for growers, utilities and investors, drawn from the iGrowNews newsletter and database. Produced by iGrowNews. Narrated with an AI voice from a human-edited script.https://igrow-digest.captivate.fmfalseepisodicnopodcastTerra-Gen's $950M Lockhart project is live: 365 MW of solar and 173.7 MW of batteriesTerra-Gen's $950M Lockhart project is live: 365 MW of solar and 173.7 MW of batteriesA seed-stage startup just raised money to build the first new uranium-conversion facility in the United States in almost 70 years — and it wasn't even the biggest cheque of the week.

Sciens Water acquired Roberts Filter Group of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, closing November 9, to launch a new municipal-and-industrial filtration platform under its Water Opportunities Fund II. Terms weren't disclosed, and CEO Matt Roberts said nothing changes for customers — but the move turns water treatment into an explicit buy-and-build arena for private capital.

Also this week: Exus Renewables North America raised $345 million led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives against a 6 GW-plus pipeline; Terra-Gen energised its $950 million Lockhart project in Hinkley, California, with 365 MW of solar and 173.7 MW of batteries; Boomitra sold and delivered 2.6 million soil carbon credits from roughly 4.8 million acres of Northern Mexico grassland, with ranchers keeping at least 75% of gross revenue; Calibrant Energy closed a $145 million facility led by Investec, including a 120 MWh battery for a PJM data-centre customer; Lithuania's Biomatter raised an oversubscribed $18 million Series A led by Astanor; OCI Energy sold the 327 MWdc Clairemont project in Kent County, Texas to Hyundai Engineering; Chevron is restarting its Ralston, Iowa biodiesel plant on Landus Cooperative feedstock; DuPont added four high-flow EDI modules; Forever Feed Technologies booked a $15 million contract with Bar-20 Dairy Farms; and Bunge and GDM formed the oilseed JV Enerseed.

The premium edition, Picking Order, tracks fruit and berry activity in the iGrow Intelligence database from 1 January to 30 October 2026: records up to 104 from 36, private rounds from three to 21, and Mission Produce's roughly $430 million purchase of Calavo Growers leading eight ownership changes.

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]]>A seed-stage startup just raised money to build the first new uranium-conversion facility in the United States in almost 70 years — and it wasn't even the biggest cheque of the week.

Sciens Water acquired Roberts Filter Group of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, closing November 9, to launch a new municipal-and-industrial filtration platform under its Water Opportunities Fund II. Terms weren't disclosed, and CEO Matt Roberts said nothing changes for customers — but the move turns water treatment into an explicit buy-and-build arena for private capital.

Also this week: Exus Renewables North America raised $345 million led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives against a 6 GW-plus pipeline; Terra-Gen energised its $950 million Lockhart project in Hinkley, California, with 365 MW of solar and 173.7 MW of batteries; Boomitra sold and delivered 2.6 million soil carbon credits from roughly 4.8 million acres of Northern Mexico grassland, with ranchers keeping at least 75% of gross revenue; Calibrant Energy closed a $145 million facility led by Investec, including a 120 MWh battery for a PJM data-centre customer; Lithuania's Biomatter raised an oversubscribed $18 million Series A led by Astanor; OCI Energy sold the 327 MWdc Clairemont project in Kent County, Texas to Hyundai Engineering; Chevron is restarting its Ralston, Iowa biodiesel plant on Landus Cooperative feedstock; DuPont added four high-flow EDI modules; Forever Feed Technologies booked a $15 million contract with Bar-20 Dairy Farms; and Bunge and GDM formed the oilseed JV Enerseed.

The premium edition, Picking Order, tracks fruit and berry activity in the iGrow Intelligence database from 1 January to 30 October 2026: records up to 104 from 36, private rounds from three to 21, and Mission Produce's roughly $430 million purchase of Calavo Growers leading eight ownership changes.

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]]>bd13131d-3fb3-4e94-8b12-373bc8c66908Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:00:00 -060010:08falsefull1515Featuring News From Sciens Water, Exus Renewables, Boomitra, Terra-Gen, Chevron, Biomatter & DuPontThe Andersons is paying $915 million for an ethanol producer, half of it for tax creditsThe Andersons is paying $915 million for an ethanol producer, half of it for tax creditsHalf of a $915 million ethanol acquisition isn't being paid for the plants — it's being paid for the tax credits.

The Andersons agreed to buy Harvestone Low Carbon Partners from Energy Capital Partners at an enterprise value of $915 million, with roughly half the price attributed to expected 45Z and 45Q tax-credit cash flows. The deal adds three ethanol plants in North Dakota and Indiana and about 215 million gallons of annual capacity, lifting The Andersons to roughly 730 million gallons. Closing is expected in Q4 2026 or early Q1 2027.

Also this week: Atlas-SSI acquired 35-year-old water-control manufacturer Linita Design; NativeSeed Group bought the assets of 74-year-old Sharp Brothers Seed in Healy, Kansas, taking it to nine regional seed houses; Panamint Capital closed a $769 million first phase of a $1.8 billion green loan for the 1.2 GWdc Big Rooter solar project in Robertson County, Texas, with Lloyds, MUFG and SMBC as coordinating lead arrangers; Proterra Investment Partners closed Credit Fund 3 at $680 million against a $500 million target; Sunraycer Renewables bought a 325 MWac Illinois-and-Missouri portfolio from Apricus Energy; Circularity Fuels raised a $7 million seed round led by Trucks and DCVC; Sungrow took BW ESS's 1,243 MWh Hams Hall battery from grid connection to operation in 20 days; Arcadis landed both the Friant-Kern Canal Phase 2A build ($80–98 million) and a Northern Gulf of California desalination appraisal worth up to 500,000 acre-feet; and Seso relaunched its H-2A workforce platform with an AI assistant, “Rootly.”

The paid edition, Price Support, compares US agriculture activity from 1 January to 23 October 2026 against 2025: public program commitments at $12.2 billion versus $3.0 billion, private rounds flat at 41 versus 39, and four signposts to watch into mid-2027.

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]]>Half of a $915 million ethanol acquisition isn't being paid for the plants — it's being paid for the tax credits.

The Andersons agreed to buy Harvestone Low Carbon Partners from Energy Capital Partners at an enterprise value of $915 million, with roughly half the price attributed to expected 45Z and 45Q tax-credit cash flows. The deal adds three ethanol plants in North Dakota and Indiana and about 215 million gallons of annual capacity, lifting The Andersons to roughly 730 million gallons. Closing is expected in Q4 2026 or early Q1 2027.

Also this week: Atlas-SSI acquired 35-year-old water-control manufacturer Linita Design; NativeSeed Group bought the assets of 74-year-old Sharp Brothers Seed in Healy, Kansas, taking it to nine regional seed houses; Panamint Capital closed a $769 million first phase of a $1.8 billion green loan for the 1.2 GWdc Big Rooter solar project in Robertson County, Texas, with Lloyds, MUFG and SMBC as coordinating lead arrangers; Proterra Investment Partners closed Credit Fund 3 at $680 million against a $500 million target; Sunraycer Renewables bought a 325 MWac Illinois-and-Missouri portfolio from Apricus Energy; Circularity Fuels raised a $7 million seed round led by Trucks and DCVC; Sungrow took BW ESS's 1,243 MWh Hams Hall battery from grid connection to operation in 20 days; Arcadis landed both the Friant-Kern Canal Phase 2A build ($80–98 million) and a Northern Gulf of California desalination appraisal worth up to 500,000 acre-feet; and Seso relaunched its H-2A workforce platform with an AI assistant, “Rootly.”

The paid edition, Price Support, compares US agriculture activity from 1 January to 23 October 2026 against 2025: public program commitments at $12.2 billion versus $3.0 billion, private rounds flat at 41 versus 39, and four signposts to watch into mid-2027.

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]]>3e49dbe3-a5ea-40a0-b0b3-69f1f0b37739Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:00:00 -060010:22falsefull1414Featuring News From The Andersons, Atlas-SSI, NativeSeed Group, Panamint Capital, Proterra, Recurrent Energy, Seso and ArcadisA Tokyo seafood group is paying C$804M for High Liner, locking up Bering Sea pollockA Tokyo seafood group is paying C$804M for High Liner, locking up Bering Sea pollockDealmakers skipped the quiet autumn: a C$804 million seafood takeover, an 81% China exit, and enough battery and nuclear money to light up a small grid.

Umios, the Tokyo seafood and marine-protein group, agreed to buy Canada's High Liner Foods at C$27.00 a share — roughly C$804 million in cash — knitting Umios' access to about a quarter of Bering Sea pollock together with High Liner's North American processing and distribution. High Liner stays headquartered in Nova Scotia as the core of Umios' North American base, with closing expected in January 2027 pending shareholder and antitrust approvals.

Also this week: Alamo Group bought UK gritting-truck maker Econ Engineering of Ripon, North Yorkshire for £120 million (about $158.7 million); A.O. Smith agreed to sell 81% of its China holding company to asset manager CPE at a roughly $400 million valuation, keeping 19% and a brand license and repatriating about $80 million; Elementl Power signed a letter of intent for up to $750 million with a consortium led by DS Investment Partners, with Samsung C&T as a potential strategic investor, covering a 1.5 GW Ohio site using GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors; Group14 raised a €150 million (about $169 million) Series D extension for a third plant in Sagunto, Spain, taking the round past $665 million; BloomX closed a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund; Cadiz raised $21 million for its Mojave Groundwater Bank; Planted Detroit, once Michigan's largest vertical farm, goes to sealed-bid auction with bids due November 16; CATL unveiled the 9 MWh TENER+ system; the USDA advanced about $139 million for Intrepid Potash and $116.9 million for Sedron; and Oishii targets 500-plus U.S. stores across 25 states on a 282% jump in strawberry output.

The premium edition, Tank Mix, digs into crop protection: records up from 123 to 173 year on year, with the headline $930.4 million in funding shrinking to $124.8 million once Tessenderlo Group's FMC investment and duplicates are stripped out — still a 14.2% rise on 78% more transactions.

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]]>Dealmakers skipped the quiet autumn: a C$804 million seafood takeover, an 81% China exit, and enough battery and nuclear money to light up a small grid.

Umios, the Tokyo seafood and marine-protein group, agreed to buy Canada's High Liner Foods at C$27.00 a share — roughly C$804 million in cash — knitting Umios' access to about a quarter of Bering Sea pollock together with High Liner's North American processing and distribution. High Liner stays headquartered in Nova Scotia as the core of Umios' North American base, with closing expected in January 2027 pending shareholder and antitrust approvals.

Also this week: Alamo Group bought UK gritting-truck maker Econ Engineering of Ripon, North Yorkshire for £120 million (about $158.7 million); A.O. Smith agreed to sell 81% of its China holding company to asset manager CPE at a roughly $400 million valuation, keeping 19% and a brand license and repatriating about $80 million; Elementl Power signed a letter of intent for up to $750 million with a consortium led by DS Investment Partners, with Samsung C&T as a potential strategic investor, covering a 1.5 GW Ohio site using GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors; Group14 raised a €150 million (about $169 million) Series D extension for a third plant in Sagunto, Spain, taking the round past $665 million; BloomX closed a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund; Cadiz raised $21 million for its Mojave Groundwater Bank; Planted Detroit, once Michigan's largest vertical farm, goes to sealed-bid auction with bids due November 16; CATL unveiled the 9 MWh TENER+ system; the USDA advanced about $139 million for Intrepid Potash and $116.9 million for Sedron; and Oishii targets 500-plus U.S. stores across 25 states on a 282% jump in strawberry output.

The premium edition, Tank Mix, digs into crop protection: records up from 123 to 173 year on year, with the headline $930.4 million in funding shrinking to $124.8 million once Tessenderlo Group's FMC investment and duplicates are stripped out — still a 14.2% rise on 78% more transactions.

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]]>4fdfc82a-8e28-4322-8347-4cd66800011eFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -050010:45falsefull1313Featuring News From Umios, A.O. Smith, Elementl Power, Group14, Cadiz, BloomX & OishiiA six-reactor, 6.6-gigawatt campus on the Ohio River would be the largest U.S. nuclear siteA six-reactor, 6.6-gigawatt campus on the Ohio River would be the largest U.S. nuclear siteSix reactors, 6.6 gigawatts, one bend in the Ohio River — and it would be the biggest nuclear site in America.

The Nuclear Company unveiled Prosperity One, a proposed six-reactor AP1000 campus in Lewis County, Kentucky. It headlined a week when nuclear momentum ran alongside a $1.4 billion green prepayment bond from Clean Power Alliance — its seventh, closed with J.P. Morgan as prepaid supplier and expected to lock in roughly $91.1 million in savings over seven years.

Also this week: Betagro took a majority stake in Thai foodservice platform Freshket, which supplies more than 20,000 operators; Mérieux NutriSciences closed its purchase of Certified Group, adding ~$300 million in revenue, 31 labs and 1,600+ staff with Peugeot Invest and Continental Grain as new minority holders; Lindsay agreed to buy Brazilian hose-reel irrigation maker Setorial Irrigação; Metron bought submetering and leak-detection maker H2O Degree; Peak Energy raised an oversubscribed $108 million Series B led by General Motors Ventures for sodium-ion storage; Pivot Energy secured a $500 million credit facility from Nuveen; Commonwealth Fusion Systems signed an $85 million CHIPS Act letter of intent; AEP, Amazon and X-energy began studying a 960 MW SMR project in Sullivan County, Indiana; Kubota advanced its Agtonomy partnership onto an autonomous M5L orchard tractor; and the USDA rolled out an $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief program.

This week's premium edition, Narrow Rows, compares September 2026 with September 2025 across land-based agriculture: records up from 199 to 227, but recorded funding halved from $2,802.2 million across 30 actions to $1,403.8 million across 12, with two entries carrying 97% of the month's capital.

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]]>Six reactors, 6.6 gigawatts, one bend in the Ohio River — and it would be the biggest nuclear site in America.

The Nuclear Company unveiled Prosperity One, a proposed six-reactor AP1000 campus in Lewis County, Kentucky. It headlined a week when nuclear momentum ran alongside a $1.4 billion green prepayment bond from Clean Power Alliance — its seventh, closed with J.P. Morgan as prepaid supplier and expected to lock in roughly $91.1 million in savings over seven years.

Also this week: Betagro took a majority stake in Thai foodservice platform Freshket, which supplies more than 20,000 operators; Mérieux NutriSciences closed its purchase of Certified Group, adding ~$300 million in revenue, 31 labs and 1,600+ staff with Peugeot Invest and Continental Grain as new minority holders; Lindsay agreed to buy Brazilian hose-reel irrigation maker Setorial Irrigação; Metron bought submetering and leak-detection maker H2O Degree; Peak Energy raised an oversubscribed $108 million Series B led by General Motors Ventures for sodium-ion storage; Pivot Energy secured a $500 million credit facility from Nuveen; Commonwealth Fusion Systems signed an $85 million CHIPS Act letter of intent; AEP, Amazon and X-energy began studying a 960 MW SMR project in Sullivan County, Indiana; Kubota advanced its Agtonomy partnership onto an autonomous M5L orchard tractor; and the USDA rolled out an $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief program.

This week's premium edition, Narrow Rows, compares September 2026 with September 2025 across land-based agriculture: records up from 199 to 227, but recorded funding halved from $2,802.2 million across 30 actions to $1,403.8 million across 12, with two entries carrying 97% of the month's capital.

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]]>bb2f3faf-5943-4fa5-98e8-1afa24578673Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -050011:32falsefull1212Featuring News From Betagro, Mérieux NutriSciences, Metron, Clean Power Alliance, Peak Energy, Pivot Energy, Kubota & LindsayEnergyX signed a 10-year, $2 billion lithium offtake with Trafigura for 100,000 tonnesEnergyX signed a 10-year, $2 billion lithium offtake with Trafigura for 100,000 tonnesA trader just committed more than $2 billion to lithium that hasn’t been pumped yet — and that was only the fifth-biggest deal of the week.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners bought a 25% stake in the up-to-1,080 MW Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm from a Macquarie-led consortium, joining EDF, ESB and Sumitomo on a project that won development consent in December 2025 and should power roughly a million UK homes. Terms were not disclosed. It is a flagship fund putting long-term capital behind a consented-but-unbuilt project — the construction phase where offshore wind money is hardest to find.

Also this week: Ara Partners took a majority interest in Pacific Ag, North America’s largest crop-residue supplier, moving corn stover and wheat straw across 30-plus states from the Columbia River Basin; water treatment consolidated in a single week as Rochester Midland bought ApHinity Technologies, Olympic Holdings acquired Vita-D-Chlor maker Integra Clear, and Robert B. Hill absorbed ECI Water’s softener controls and Greensand Plus line; energyRe closed an $815 million package from Bank of America, CIBC and Santander plus tax equity for five South Carolina solar projects totalling about 360 MW; Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy bought GreenAmerica Biofuels’ 70-million-gallon Nebraska ethanol plant from Pilot, lifting capacity to about 230 million gallons a year; CarbonFarm raised a $7.8 million Series A led by Colam Impact; NEU Battery Materials closed $7.6 million co-led by Shift4Good and SGInnovate; Subeca pulled in about $3 million led by Burnt Island Ventures; HiTHIUM passed 200 GWh in cumulative storage-battery shipments; and the John Deere Foundation pledged $18.5 million to a farm-to-plate hunger strategy.

The paid edition this week is Grain Elevator: cereals and grains records in the iGrow Intelligence database rose from 53 to 127 across 27 countries, up from 14, with nine priced venture rounds averaging $9.2 million against three averaging $51.2 million a year earlier — plus four dated signals to watch.

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]]>A trader just committed more than $2 billion to lithium that hasn’t been pumped yet — and that was only the fifth-biggest deal of the week.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners bought a 25% stake in the up-to-1,080 MW Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm from a Macquarie-led consortium, joining EDF, ESB and Sumitomo on a project that won development consent in December 2025 and should power roughly a million UK homes. Terms were not disclosed. It is a flagship fund putting long-term capital behind a consented-but-unbuilt project — the construction phase where offshore wind money is hardest to find.

Also this week: Ara Partners took a majority interest in Pacific Ag, North America’s largest crop-residue supplier, moving corn stover and wheat straw across 30-plus states from the Columbia River Basin; water treatment consolidated in a single week as Rochester Midland bought ApHinity Technologies, Olympic Holdings acquired Vita-D-Chlor maker Integra Clear, and Robert B. Hill absorbed ECI Water’s softener controls and Greensand Plus line; energyRe closed an $815 million package from Bank of America, CIBC and Santander plus tax equity for five South Carolina solar projects totalling about 360 MW; Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy bought GreenAmerica Biofuels’ 70-million-gallon Nebraska ethanol plant from Pilot, lifting capacity to about 230 million gallons a year; CarbonFarm raised a $7.8 million Series A led by Colam Impact; NEU Battery Materials closed $7.6 million co-led by Shift4Good and SGInnovate; Subeca pulled in about $3 million led by Burnt Island Ventures; HiTHIUM passed 200 GWh in cumulative storage-battery shipments; and the John Deere Foundation pledged $18.5 million to a farm-to-plate hunger strategy.

The paid edition this week is Grain Elevator: cereals and grains records in the iGrow Intelligence database rose from 53 to 127 across 27 countries, up from 14, with nine priced venture rounds averaging $9.2 million against three averaging $51.2 million a year earlier — plus four dated signals to watch.

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]]>5c135e04-ac62-4f38-899c-d3a69fd7afc5Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -050011:08falsefull1111Featuring News From Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Ara Partners, energyRe, Rochester Midland, EnergyX, CarbonFarm, SubecaPacolet Milliken tripled its biomass platform by buying 116 megawatts in GeorgiaPacolet Milliken tripled its biomass platform by buying 116 megawatts in GeorgiaFour companies went shopping in a single week — and one of them tripled its biomass fleet overnight.

Pacolet Milliken bought 100% of Georgia Renewable Power, whose two woody-biomass plants in Franklin and Madison Counties, Georgia add 116 MW under long-term PPAs with Georgia Power, roughly tripling the firm's biomass platform; Manulife financed the deal. Terms weren't disclosed, as they weren't for any of the week's four acquisitions.

Also this week: BRANDT acquired Mexico City-based Altiara (Agrícola Innovación), which will run as "Altiara, A Brandt Company" with former CEO Francisco Ortiz leading integration; BioFirst Group bought the remaining 14.71% of Brazil's Biotrop from Aqua Capital and Zempar, after taking ~85% in 2023 at a BRL 2.8 billion (€532 million) enterprise value; Kinetico picked up France's Cielter (Reims) and Italy's Enki Water (Bergamo); Darling Ingredients closed the sale of its CTH sausage-casings business to Germany's SARIA Group on October 1; Generate Capital closed a $154.5 million tax-equity commitment with KeyState's SOLCAP platform across 10 community-solar projects (43 MWac), pushing its 2026 commitments to $1.6 billion; Pivot Energy landed a $173 million first term loan from First Citizens Bank, Huntington Bank and BankUnited across 51 projects (135 MWdc); Foss and Company put $58 million of tax equity into a GridStor battery project in Hidalgo County, Texas; BloomX raised a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund for robotic orchard pollination; TOYO opened a 2 GW module plant in Humble, Texas; Doral Renewables completed the final 900 MWac of its 1.3 GW Mammoth Solar complex; Veolia finished a $58 million wastewater plant rebuild in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey; and the Purdue/CME Ag Economy Barometer fell 12 points as a record 52% of farmers named input costs their top worry.

The paid edition, Low Country, pulls apart a full year of Dutch agriculture: recorded capital into Dutch companies and projects rose from $48.6 million to $170.3 million — though a single FrieslandCampina whey-protein program accounts for 60.8% of it — ownership changes climbed from seven to eleven, and North America overtook the Middle East as the destination Dutch firms named most.

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]]>Four companies went shopping in a single week — and one of them tripled its biomass fleet overnight.

Pacolet Milliken bought 100% of Georgia Renewable Power, whose two woody-biomass plants in Franklin and Madison Counties, Georgia add 116 MW under long-term PPAs with Georgia Power, roughly tripling the firm's biomass platform; Manulife financed the deal. Terms weren't disclosed, as they weren't for any of the week's four acquisitions.

Also this week: BRANDT acquired Mexico City-based Altiara (Agrícola Innovación), which will run as "Altiara, A Brandt Company" with former CEO Francisco Ortiz leading integration; BioFirst Group bought the remaining 14.71% of Brazil's Biotrop from Aqua Capital and Zempar, after taking ~85% in 2023 at a BRL 2.8 billion (€532 million) enterprise value; Kinetico picked up France's Cielter (Reims) and Italy's Enki Water (Bergamo); Darling Ingredients closed the sale of its CTH sausage-casings business to Germany's SARIA Group on October 1; Generate Capital closed a $154.5 million tax-equity commitment with KeyState's SOLCAP platform across 10 community-solar projects (43 MWac), pushing its 2026 commitments to $1.6 billion; Pivot Energy landed a $173 million first term loan from First Citizens Bank, Huntington Bank and BankUnited across 51 projects (135 MWdc); Foss and Company put $58 million of tax equity into a GridStor battery project in Hidalgo County, Texas; BloomX raised a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund for robotic orchard pollination; TOYO opened a 2 GW module plant in Humble, Texas; Doral Renewables completed the final 900 MWac of its 1.3 GW Mammoth Solar complex; Veolia finished a $58 million wastewater plant rebuild in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey; and the Purdue/CME Ag Economy Barometer fell 12 points as a record 52% of farmers named input costs their top worry.

The paid edition, Low Country, pulls apart a full year of Dutch agriculture: recorded capital into Dutch companies and projects rose from $48.6 million to $170.3 million — though a single FrieslandCampina whey-protein program accounts for 60.8% of it — ownership changes climbed from seven to eleven, and North America overtook the Middle East as the destination Dutch firms named most.

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]]>e518edf7-d3a0-43ee-b7ab-0f29fa76bf9aFri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -050011:29falsefull1010Featuring News From BRANDT, Kinetico, Pacolet Milliken, Darling Ingredients, Generate Capital, Veolia, BloomX & TOYOHormel is paying $1.055 billion for a family chicken maker, and that was just one of a dozen dealsHormel is paying $1.055 billion for a family chicken maker, and that was just one of a dozen dealsA dozen acquisitions, a $19 billion seed pipeline landing on the NYSE, and the first carbon credits ever issued for rescued food — the dealmakers did not take the week off.

Hormel Foods agreed to buy Brakebush, the family-owned Wisconsin maker of value-added chicken, for roughly $1.055 billion — the week's largest disclosed deal. Brakebush runs five plants and booked about $1.2 billion in net sales over the past year, with Hormel expecting to close in early fiscal 2027. It is further-processed, foodservice-ready capacity bought rather than built.

Also this week: H2O America closed its purchase of Houston-area utility Quadvest, putting Texas on track for 26% of its customer base by 2029; Vylor completed its spin from Corteva and began trading on the NYSE with a pipeline it values at $19 billion; Electric Power Group, Usalco, Solution Group, Vortex, Kodiak Chemical and SJE went on a water-and-grid M&A run; Tessenderlo Group took a ~20% stake in FMC for about $403 million; CleanChoice Energy closed ~$166 million on two Northeast solar projects and Globeleq reached financial close on the $52.1 million Kafue Solar plant in Zambia; Linea Energy financed its 250 MW / 500 MWh Mesa View battery in Texas; Fervo Energy declared commercial operation of the first 33 MW block at Cape Station in Utah; Controlled Thermal Resources converted ~$205 million of notes to equity ahead of a SPAC listing; AMVAC bought U.S. registrations for four Syngenta brands worth $7 million-plus in annual sales; Origin Agritech sold its 70.5% Xinjiang seed stake for ~$15 million; and Brightly secured 721,649 Verra carbon credits tied to Feeding America donations.

This week's premium edition, Under Glass, benchmarks the greenhouse sector's 2026 against 2025 using the iGrowNews database: $249.7 million across 12 deals, ownership changes doubled to ten, 44 partnerships tracked, and activity spreading from 16 countries to 23.

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]]>A dozen acquisitions, a $19 billion seed pipeline landing on the NYSE, and the first carbon credits ever issued for rescued food — the dealmakers did not take the week off.

Hormel Foods agreed to buy Brakebush, the family-owned Wisconsin maker of value-added chicken, for roughly $1.055 billion — the week's largest disclosed deal. Brakebush runs five plants and booked about $1.2 billion in net sales over the past year, with Hormel expecting to close in early fiscal 2027. It is further-processed, foodservice-ready capacity bought rather than built.

Also this week: H2O America closed its purchase of Houston-area utility Quadvest, putting Texas on track for 26% of its customer base by 2029; Vylor completed its spin from Corteva and began trading on the NYSE with a pipeline it values at $19 billion; Electric Power Group, Usalco, Solution Group, Vortex, Kodiak Chemical and SJE went on a water-and-grid M&A run; Tessenderlo Group took a ~20% stake in FMC for about $403 million; CleanChoice Energy closed ~$166 million on two Northeast solar projects and Globeleq reached financial close on the $52.1 million Kafue Solar plant in Zambia; Linea Energy financed its 250 MW / 500 MWh Mesa View battery in Texas; Fervo Energy declared commercial operation of the first 33 MW block at Cape Station in Utah; Controlled Thermal Resources converted ~$205 million of notes to equity ahead of a SPAC listing; AMVAC bought U.S. registrations for four Syngenta brands worth $7 million-plus in annual sales; Origin Agritech sold its 70.5% Xinjiang seed stake for ~$15 million; and Brightly secured 721,649 Verra carbon credits tied to Feeding America donations.

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]]>9b1497b8-4327-4cac-86e2-2759c2750c5eFri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -050011:51falsefull99Featuring News From Hormel, H2O America, Vylor, Fervo Energy, FMC, Globeleq & DeLavalA Paris-founded nuclear developer raised $247M and chose Nasdaq over Europe to listA Paris-founded nuclear developer raised $247M and chose Nasdaq over Europe to listA Paris-founded reactor company just rang the bell in New York — and more than a billion dollars moved across energy, water and agriculture in five days.

newcleo closed its business combination with NewHold Investment Corp III, raising $247 million in gross proceeds and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as "NWCL". The lead-cooled fast-reactor and recycled-fuel developer is now valued at roughly $2.4 billion and has passed $1 billion in total funding, earmarked for its Italian demonstrator and a reactor rollout across the U.S. and Europe.

Also this week: Vanguard Renewables agreed to buy Generate Upcycle's five North American sites from Generate Capital, creating a 19-site, continent-leading food-waste-to-RNG platform closing October 1; H2O America cleared regulators to acquire the Cibolo Valley wastewater system near Canyon Lake, Texas, more than doubling its wastewater connections to serve about 90,000 people; Titan International agreed to sell its ITM undercarriage business to Italy's USCO S.p.A. for roughly $285 million; Standlee and Anderson Hay combined as Standlee-Anderson; Form Energy closed a $270 million Barclays-led credit facility expandable to $1 billion; Anyang Indorama Gases signed a ~$358 million (RMB 2.4 billion) loan led by OCBC Bank; Rainmaker raised a $100 million Series B for cloud seeding; SMT Energy secured up to $268 million from Climate Adaptive Infrastructure; and ADM said it will bring more than 800,000 tons a year of engineered CO2 removal to the voluntary carbon market with partner Tallgrass.

This week's premium edition, Under Glass, takes the greenhouse sector apart by the numbers: $249.7 million across 12 deals year-to-date, ownership changes doubled to ten, partnerships past forty, and activity spread from 16 countries to 23.

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]]>A Paris-founded reactor company just rang the bell in New York — and more than a billion dollars moved across energy, water and agriculture in five days.

newcleo closed its business combination with NewHold Investment Corp III, raising $247 million in gross proceeds and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as "NWCL". The lead-cooled fast-reactor and recycled-fuel developer is now valued at roughly $2.4 billion and has passed $1 billion in total funding, earmarked for its Italian demonstrator and a reactor rollout across the U.S. and Europe.

Also this week: Vanguard Renewables agreed to buy Generate Upcycle's five North American sites from Generate Capital, creating a 19-site, continent-leading food-waste-to-RNG platform closing October 1; H2O America cleared regulators to acquire the Cibolo Valley wastewater system near Canyon Lake, Texas, more than doubling its wastewater connections to serve about 90,000 people; Titan International agreed to sell its ITM undercarriage business to Italy's USCO S.p.A. for roughly $285 million; Standlee and Anderson Hay combined as Standlee-Anderson; Form Energy closed a $270 million Barclays-led credit facility expandable to $1 billion; Anyang Indorama Gases signed a ~$358 million (RMB 2.4 billion) loan led by OCBC Bank; Rainmaker raised a $100 million Series B for cloud seeding; SMT Energy secured up to $268 million from Climate Adaptive Infrastructure; and ADM said it will bring more than 800,000 tons a year of engineered CO2 removal to the voluntary carbon market with partner Tallgrass.

This week's premium edition, Under Glass, takes the greenhouse sector apart by the numbers: $249.7 million across 12 deals year-to-date, ownership changes doubled to ten, partnerships past forty, and activity spread from 16 countries to 23.

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]]>8cb279a8-7f11-484f-abb0-6ab082ea798fFri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -050011:37falsefull88Featuring News From Vanguard Renewables, newcleo, H2O America, Standlee, Titan International, Rainmaker, Form Energy & ADMCorteva's seed business becomes Vylor on October 1, chasing $1 billion in wheat by 2040Corteva's seed business becomes Vylor on October 1, chasing $1 billion in wheat by 2040A 100-year-old crop giant is cutting itself in half — and the new seed company says wheat alone is a $1 billion business waiting to happen.

Corteva's board approved the separation of its seed unit into a new independent company, Vylor, clearing an October 1 split into two publicly traded agriculture firms. Vylor says its hybrid wheat platform remains on track for a 2027 launch, projecting $500 million in North America wheat revenue by 2035 and $1 billion by 2040, with next-generation soybean traits targeting another $500 million on the same timeline. Days later, BASF mandated Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan for a mid-2027 IPO of its Agricultural Solutions unit — two of the industry's biggest players betting focus beats scale.

Also this week: Greenly and Normative merged into what they call the world's largest carbon-accounting software provider; Crane Company agreed to buy Trillium Pumps US for $240 million; Mazama Energy raised $135 million for engineered geothermal; IDEXX Laboratories acquired veterinary AI startup CoVetAI, with co-founder Yannick Bloem staying on; NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy pledged 1,000 Virginia jobs and a Richmond co-headquarters tower to win regulators; Robigo closed a Series A led by Leaps by Bayer; Branch Energy raised $33 million; BFG Supply Co. set an auction date after its August Chapter 11; Hitachi Energy committed $528 million to a transformer plant in Gallman, Mississippi; ENGIE North America will supply 500-plus megawatts to Oracle's Texas data centers; and CrossBoundary Energy's 233 megawatt Kamoa solar-plus-storage project in the DRC reached full commercial operation 16 months after signing.

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]]>A 100-year-old crop giant is cutting itself in half — and the new seed company says wheat alone is a $1 billion business waiting to happen.

Corteva's board approved the separation of its seed unit into a new independent company, Vylor, clearing an October 1 split into two publicly traded agriculture firms. Vylor says its hybrid wheat platform remains on track for a 2027 launch, projecting $500 million in North America wheat revenue by 2035 and $1 billion by 2040, with next-generation soybean traits targeting another $500 million on the same timeline. Days later, BASF mandated Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan for a mid-2027 IPO of its Agricultural Solutions unit — two of the industry's biggest players betting focus beats scale.

Also this week: Greenly and Normative merged into what they call the world's largest carbon-accounting software provider; Crane Company agreed to buy Trillium Pumps US for $240 million; Mazama Energy raised $135 million for engineered geothermal; IDEXX Laboratories acquired veterinary AI startup CoVetAI, with co-founder Yannick Bloem staying on; NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy pledged 1,000 Virginia jobs and a Richmond co-headquarters tower to win regulators; Robigo closed a Series A led by Leaps by Bayer; Branch Energy raised $33 million; BFG Supply Co. set an auction date after its August Chapter 11; Hitachi Energy committed $528 million to a transformer plant in Gallman, Mississippi; ENGIE North America will supply 500-plus megawatts to Oracle's Texas data centers; and CrossBoundary Energy's 233 megawatt Kamoa solar-plus-storage project in the DRC reached full commercial operation 16 months after signing.

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]]>ed8127b4-e3fe-4eae-b7fe-46994b7c56e4Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -050009:50falsefull77Featuring News From Vylor, Greenly, IDEXX Laboratories, NextEra Energy, Crane Company, Mazama Energy, and RobigoAgreena signed a 4.45 million-tonne soil-carbon deal across 1.6 million hectares in KazakhstanAgreena signed a 4.45 million-tonne soil-carbon deal across 1.6 million hectares in KazakhstanTwo reactor developers hit the public markets in the same week β€” and the largest farmland carbon deal ever disclosed landed in Kazakhstan.

Holtec Nuclear filed to go public on Nasdaq, seeking up to roughly $900 million at a valuation near $10.2 billion for its spent-fuel storage and SMR business. Days earlier, Texas-based HGP Intelligent Energy β€” building reactors that follow data-center load β€” agreed to a $1.2 billion SPAC merger with Meshflow Acquisition Corp. Both are pitched explicitly at AI data-center power demand.

Also this week: Franklin Electric bought Cat Pumps for $350 million cash plus a $50 million earnout; Mitti Labs signed Google to up to 1 million rice-methane carbon credits, the largest offtake of its kind on record; Agreena disclosed a 4.45 million-tonne soil-carbon agreement across 1.6 million hectares in Kazakhstan; Wint raised a $36 million Series D led by LIP Ventures and Inven Capital; the DOE closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion for NextEra Energy to restart the 615 MW Duane Arnold plant; Missouri American Water closed its $34.5 million purchase of Neosho's systems, adding about 10,800 customers; Ecobat exited lithium recycling, selling its Casa Grande, Arizona plant; Georgia Power won approval for 1,137 MW of solar; Envocore was picked for a $129 million program to replace 1.5 million water meters across Puerto Rico; Corteva and Globachem formed a 50/50 crop-protection JV; and Smackover Lithium reported a ~$5.0 billion after-tax NPV for its first East Texas project.

This week's paid edition, Thin Harvest, strips the ocean out of iGrow's August ledger: $670 million across 25 funding actions in land-based agriculture, down sharply from July's $1.89 billion, with debt desks and government ministries writing the biggest checks.

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]]>Two reactor developers hit the public markets in the same week β€” and the largest farmland carbon deal ever disclosed landed in Kazakhstan.

Holtec Nuclear filed to go public on Nasdaq, seeking up to roughly $900 million at a valuation near $10.2 billion for its spent-fuel storage and SMR business. Days earlier, Texas-based HGP Intelligent Energy β€” building reactors that follow data-center load β€” agreed to a $1.2 billion SPAC merger with Meshflow Acquisition Corp. Both are pitched explicitly at AI data-center power demand.

Also this week: Franklin Electric bought Cat Pumps for $350 million cash plus a $50 million earnout; Mitti Labs signed Google to up to 1 million rice-methane carbon credits, the largest offtake of its kind on record; Agreena disclosed a 4.45 million-tonne soil-carbon agreement across 1.6 million hectares in Kazakhstan; Wint raised a $36 million Series D led by LIP Ventures and Inven Capital; the DOE closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion for NextEra Energy to restart the 615 MW Duane Arnold plant; Missouri American Water closed its $34.5 million purchase of Neosho's systems, adding about 10,800 customers; Ecobat exited lithium recycling, selling its Casa Grande, Arizona plant; Georgia Power won approval for 1,137 MW of solar; Envocore was picked for a $129 million program to replace 1.5 million water meters across Puerto Rico; Corteva and Globachem formed a 50/50 crop-protection JV; and Smackover Lithium reported a ~$5.0 billion after-tax NPV for its first East Texas project.

This week's paid edition, Thin Harvest, strips the ocean out of iGrow's August ledger: $670 million across 25 funding actions in land-based agriculture, down sharply from July's $1.89 billion, with debt desks and government ministries writing the biggest checks.

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]]>e47bbabb-0981-4158-b631-2675498cc594Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -050010:14falsefull66Featuring News From Holtec, Franklin Electric, Wint, Mitti Labs, NextEra, Agreena & CortevaFlex is buying EPC Power for $4.4 billion, the week's clearest bet on grid hardwareFlex is buying EPC Power for $4.4 billion, the week's clearest bet on grid hardwareThe week's biggest deal wasn't software or AI — it was a $4.4 billion bet on the boxes that convert electrons.

Flex agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, absorbing the North American maker of grid-scale inverters and power-conversion systems used in utility solar and storage — the unglamorous hardware that has become the real bottleneck as AI data centers and electrification push demand higher. Alongside it, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners paid roughly $1.1 billion for Australia's Gawara Baya wind-plus-battery project, and Orrön Energy completed its merger with Cloudberry Clean Energy to form a ~2.1 TWh Nordic independent power producer.

Also this week: Fervo Energy signed a record 396 MW geothermal deal with Google; Missouri American Water closed its $34.5 million Neosho water and wastewater acquisition; Adecoagro completed its ~$148 million purchase of the Caarapó Mill from Raízen; Odyssey Energy Solutions raised $74 million and Gridsight a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners; Corvus Robotics raised $20 million led by Catalyst Investors for warehouse inventory drones, while Japan's Sunshiki closed a pre-seed for seaweed-based cattle-methane feed; TXNM Energy priced a $400 million stock offering and Olam's ofi raised a $100 million private note; Ecobat sold its lithium-recycling business including its Casa Grande, Arizona operations; Studsvik picked GE Vernova Hitachi and Samsung C&T for 1.2 GW in Sweden; Chobani committed $1.2 billion to a Pennsylvania dairy campus; and ProLogium began mass production of a 381 Wh/kg solid-state battery.

The premium AgTech Intelligence Brief, Root Deal, goes deeper on CropX's biggest acquisition yet, Indigo Agriculture's ENAI spinoff, BFG Supply's Chapter 11 filing, and NADEC's $22.7 million greenhouse deal.

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]]>The week's biggest deal wasn't software or AI — it was a $4.4 billion bet on the boxes that convert electrons.

Flex agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, absorbing the North American maker of grid-scale inverters and power-conversion systems used in utility solar and storage — the unglamorous hardware that has become the real bottleneck as AI data centers and electrification push demand higher. Alongside it, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners paid roughly $1.1 billion for Australia's Gawara Baya wind-plus-battery project, and Orrön Energy completed its merger with Cloudberry Clean Energy to form a ~2.1 TWh Nordic independent power producer.

Also this week: Fervo Energy signed a record 396 MW geothermal deal with Google; Missouri American Water closed its $34.5 million Neosho water and wastewater acquisition; Adecoagro completed its ~$148 million purchase of the Caarapó Mill from Raízen; Odyssey Energy Solutions raised $74 million and Gridsight a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners; Corvus Robotics raised $20 million led by Catalyst Investors for warehouse inventory drones, while Japan's Sunshiki closed a pre-seed for seaweed-based cattle-methane feed; TXNM Energy priced a $400 million stock offering and Olam's ofi raised a $100 million private note; Ecobat sold its lithium-recycling business including its Casa Grande, Arizona operations; Studsvik picked GE Vernova Hitachi and Samsung C&T for 1.2 GW in Sweden; Chobani committed $1.2 billion to a Pennsylvania dairy campus; and ProLogium began mass production of a 381 Wh/kg solid-state battery.

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]]>a414c7cc-eeed-4242-b0ee-6629768d1b8cFri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -050010:05falsefull55Featuring News From Flex, Missouri American Water, Fervo Energy, Adecoagro, Corvus Robotics, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Bayer, and ChobaniArcLight just put $1 billion behind a transmission company that didn't exist last weekArcLight just put $1 billion behind a transmission company that didn't exist last weekOne billion dollars of equity, one brand-new transmission company — and a 54-year-old distributor filing Chapter 11 with $342.5 million in debt, in the same week.

CropX Technologies closed its eighth acquisition since 2020 and its largest ever, buying lab-testing firm SCIO to pair soil-sensing and farm-management data with lab-grade crop analysis — what it calls agriculture's first self-improving agronomic intelligence platform. Alongside it, Indigo Agriculture spun its biologicals business into a standalone company, ENAI, built around endophyte plant science, while Indigo Carbon continues under the original brand.

Also this week: ArcLight Capital Partners committed $1 billion to launch Anchor Point Transmission; BFG Supply filed for Chapter 11 with $342.5 million in debt, a $55 million DIP loan and an October 22 sale target after cutting staff from 700 to 461; Eos Energy consolidated battery production at Thorn Hill, Pennsylvania, targeting 10–15% lower conversion costs from 2027 for roughly 250 affected employees; NADEC agreed to buy Pure Harvest's six-hectare Haradh greenhouse for $22.7 million; Sisu Energy and Environmental acquired Helical Energy; Sol Systems bought the 200 MW Lumberton project from DESRI; Crux closed $215 million of tax equity behind Invenergy's 240 MW Pleasant Prairie solar project; EDF power solutions reached financial close on Oman's 120 MW JBB wind farm; Breedr raised a $27 million Series B led by Partech, TerraBlaster a $12.5 million seed, VitalFluid a $19.9 million Series A; Emvolon signed a $450 million-plus deal with Freepoint Commodities; the DOE granted Princeton NuEnergy $50 million; USDA and HHS unveiled Harvest to Hallways with up to $95 million; NANO Nuclear and Tillman Digital Gateway targeted 2+ GW for AI data centers; Sungrow energized a 200 MW/400 MWh project in 17 days; Reservoir landed a $10 million R&D partnership with John Deere; and Dole and Nature's Pride joined the WAVE Aconcagua Partnership in a Chilean valley where river flows have fallen 50% in 15 years.

The premium Trends Analysis edition — Big Ag Is Buying Its Way Into Biology — maps roughly 120 crop-protection deals logged in 2026, funding rebounding to $507 million across 15 rounds, AgBiTech and Kimitec moving into strategic hands, and FMC and Bayer restructuring chemical portfolios to fund the shift.

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]]>One billion dollars of equity, one brand-new transmission company — and a 54-year-old distributor filing Chapter 11 with $342.5 million in debt, in the same week.

CropX Technologies closed its eighth acquisition since 2020 and its largest ever, buying lab-testing firm SCIO to pair soil-sensing and farm-management data with lab-grade crop analysis — what it calls agriculture's first self-improving agronomic intelligence platform. Alongside it, Indigo Agriculture spun its biologicals business into a standalone company, ENAI, built around endophyte plant science, while Indigo Carbon continues under the original brand.

Also this week: ArcLight Capital Partners committed $1 billion to launch Anchor Point Transmission; BFG Supply filed for Chapter 11 with $342.5 million in debt, a $55 million DIP loan and an October 22 sale target after cutting staff from 700 to 461; Eos Energy consolidated battery production at Thorn Hill, Pennsylvania, targeting 10–15% lower conversion costs from 2027 for roughly 250 affected employees; NADEC agreed to buy Pure Harvest's six-hectare Haradh greenhouse for $22.7 million; Sisu Energy and Environmental acquired Helical Energy; Sol Systems bought the 200 MW Lumberton project from DESRI; Crux closed $215 million of tax equity behind Invenergy's 240 MW Pleasant Prairie solar project; EDF power solutions reached financial close on Oman's 120 MW JBB wind farm; Breedr raised a $27 million Series B led by Partech, TerraBlaster a $12.5 million seed, VitalFluid a $19.9 million Series A; Emvolon signed a $450 million-plus deal with Freepoint Commodities; the DOE granted Princeton NuEnergy $50 million; USDA and HHS unveiled Harvest to Hallways with up to $95 million; NANO Nuclear and Tillman Digital Gateway targeted 2+ GW for AI data centers; Sungrow energized a 200 MW/400 MWh project in 17 days; Reservoir landed a $10 million R&D partnership with John Deere; and Dole and Nature's Pride joined the WAVE Aconcagua Partnership in a Chilean valley where river flows have fallen 50% in 15 years.

The premium Trends Analysis edition — Big Ag Is Buying Its Way Into Biology — maps roughly 120 crop-protection deals logged in 2026, funding rebounding to $507 million across 15 rounds, AgBiTech and Kimitec moving into strategic hands, and FMC and Bayer restructuring chemical portfolios to fund the shift.

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]]>5f405479-0847-4b97-a0f6-8d0678f369ddFri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -050011:04falsefull44Featuring News From CropX, Indigo Agriculture, ArcLight Capital Partners, Breedr, EDF power solutions, TerraBlaster and Eos EnergyApollo Atomics raised $31M to shrink reactors to a fortieth of conventional sizeApollo Atomics raised $31M to shrink reactors to a fortieth of conventional sizeA factory-built steam generator that shrinks a nuclear reactor to a fortieth of its normal size just pulled in $31 million — and it wasn't even the biggest capital story of the week.

Water was. Veralto agreed to pay $465 million for Cleanwater1, a US disinfection and odor-control specialist with 25,000 installed units, at roughly 17x trailing earnings. Days later, H2O America cleared its final regulatory hurdle to close a $540 million purchase of Greater Houston utility Quadvest, adding nearly 140,000 connections and making it Texas's second-largest investor-owned water utility — with Texas set to make up more than a quarter of its total service base by 2029.

Also this week: Mérieux NutriSciences is acquiring Warburg Pincus-backed Certified Group, 31 North American labs and about $300 million in annual revenue, closing in Q4; Distributed Sun anchored a $1 billion capital base behind new storage-and-microgrid platform trutility, launching with gigawatt-hour-scale assets across 14 utility territories; Ever After Foods bought Belgium's Fishway plus a $2 million strategic investment; GrubMarket made its first non-US acquisition, UK produce distributor JR Holland; Cosan is voluntarily delisting its ADSs from the NYSE to consolidate on B3; A1R water began Nasdaq trading after a $96 million PIPE anchored by Inflection Point and Southern Glazer's; Apollo Atomics raised $31 million ($26 million seed led by FCVC plus $5 million debt); Thea Energy extended its Series B with Brevan Howard Macro Venture; Mafix raised $5.4 million pre-seed led by Azolla Ventures; Computomics closed a €6.3 million Series B; Vessev raised $19 million with FlyTahoe as first US customer; Swift Current Energy lined up a $750 million credit facility; Quinbrook closed A$469 million for Supernode with CATL; SalMar won approval for $531 million in Oslo green bond listings; ROTEC won the 86-million-gallon-per-day Changi NEWater Factory 3 reverse osmosis design; and a Weed Science Society of America study put the cost of an Illinois glyphosate ban at up to $609 million a year for corn and soybean growers.

The premium AgTech Digest edition, Herd Instinct, covers EW Group's completed buyout of French biologicals maker Olmix, a $15 million Series B for Australian livestock tracker Ranchbot, and the new USDA–DHS biosecurity pact aimed at the screwworm outbreak that has already cost Florida citrus 95% of its production.

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]]>A factory-built steam generator that shrinks a nuclear reactor to a fortieth of its normal size just pulled in $31 million — and it wasn't even the biggest capital story of the week.

Water was. Veralto agreed to pay $465 million for Cleanwater1, a US disinfection and odor-control specialist with 25,000 installed units, at roughly 17x trailing earnings. Days later, H2O America cleared its final regulatory hurdle to close a $540 million purchase of Greater Houston utility Quadvest, adding nearly 140,000 connections and making it Texas's second-largest investor-owned water utility — with Texas set to make up more than a quarter of its total service base by 2029.

Also this week: Mérieux NutriSciences is acquiring Warburg Pincus-backed Certified Group, 31 North American labs and about $300 million in annual revenue, closing in Q4; Distributed Sun anchored a $1 billion capital base behind new storage-and-microgrid platform trutility, launching with gigawatt-hour-scale assets across 14 utility territories; Ever After Foods bought Belgium's Fishway plus a $2 million strategic investment; GrubMarket made its first non-US acquisition, UK produce distributor JR Holland; Cosan is voluntarily delisting its ADSs from the NYSE to consolidate on B3; A1R water began Nasdaq trading after a $96 million PIPE anchored by Inflection Point and Southern Glazer's; Apollo Atomics raised $31 million ($26 million seed led by FCVC plus $5 million debt); Thea Energy extended its Series B with Brevan Howard Macro Venture; Mafix raised $5.4 million pre-seed led by Azolla Ventures; Computomics closed a €6.3 million Series B; Vessev raised $19 million with FlyTahoe as first US customer; Swift Current Energy lined up a $750 million credit facility; Quinbrook closed A$469 million for Supernode with CATL; SalMar won approval for $531 million in Oslo green bond listings; ROTEC won the 86-million-gallon-per-day Changi NEWater Factory 3 reverse osmosis design; and a Weed Science Society of America study put the cost of an Illinois glyphosate ban at up to $609 million a year for corn and soybean growers.

The premium AgTech Digest edition, Herd Instinct, covers EW Group's completed buyout of French biologicals maker Olmix, a $15 million Series B for Australian livestock tracker Ranchbot, and the new USDA–DHS biosecurity pact aimed at the screwworm outbreak that has already cost Florida citrus 95% of its production.

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]]>1bbb677f-855a-4758-87ac-5f7ec4b3c8e1Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -050010:36falsefull33Featuring News From Mérieux NutriSciences, H2O America, Distributed Sun, Ever After Foods, GrubMarket, Cosan, Apollo Atomics, and ROTECXylem is paying $1.46 billion for two pump makers, its biggest water bet of the yearXylem is paying $1.46 billion for two pump makers, its biggest water bet of the yearEleven acquisitions crossed the wire in a single week — and the biggest one was a $1.46 billion bet on pumps.

Xylem agreed to buy Cornell Pump and Roper Pump from industrial conglomerate Indicor for $1.46 billion, in a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter. The two brands add more than $260 million in combined revenue at 30%-plus EBITDA margins to Xylem's Water Infrastructure segment — a straightforward read on aging utilities and one-directional pump demand.

Also this week: Nuclea Energy is acquiring Moltex Energy's advanced nuclear portfolio, including the Waste to Stable Salt process, the Stable Salt Reactor-Wasteburner, the FLEX design and 80 granted patents, out of UK administration; Mazavida launched as a containerized-desalination joint venture between Kinetic7 Technologies, Aquarius Capital, PIF Energy and PIF Capital across Abu Dhabi and Houston; Doral Renewables raised $400 million in common equity from parent Doral Group for its 17 GW pipeline; Verdantas bought Pax Environmental, adding nearly 75 staff; Recurrent Energy closed $695 million for the 330 MW Cobalt Solar project and brought the 150 MW Carwarp Energy Park online early under a Microsoft power deal; Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners closed $510 million of debt on a 420 MWdc Mexican solar-plus-storage plant; Ranchbot raised a $15 million Series B and set up a U.S. holding company in Texas; Arevon energized a 300 MW/1,200 MWh battery project backed by $920 million; Jacobs won a $750 million pipeline overhaul on Utah's Strawberry High Line; Netafim launched GrowSphere FLEX for smallholders, who farm 84% of the world's total; BrightFarms landed Kroger and Costco shelves in Dallas and Atlanta; and USDA and DHS signed a memorandum pairing animal-health expertise with border security against New World screwworm.

The premium edition this week is Gene Editing Grew Up. The Genetics Land Grab Is On. — 33 database entries across crop genomics, science and seeds since mid-May, from Tropic's acquisition of Rahan Meristem to Corteva spinning out its seed-and-genetics arm as Vylor.

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]]>Eleven acquisitions crossed the wire in a single week — and the biggest one was a $1.46 billion bet on pumps.

Xylem agreed to buy Cornell Pump and Roper Pump from industrial conglomerate Indicor for $1.46 billion, in a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter. The two brands add more than $260 million in combined revenue at 30%-plus EBITDA margins to Xylem's Water Infrastructure segment — a straightforward read on aging utilities and one-directional pump demand.

Also this week: Nuclea Energy is acquiring Moltex Energy's advanced nuclear portfolio, including the Waste to Stable Salt process, the Stable Salt Reactor-Wasteburner, the FLEX design and 80 granted patents, out of UK administration; Mazavida launched as a containerized-desalination joint venture between Kinetic7 Technologies, Aquarius Capital, PIF Energy and PIF Capital across Abu Dhabi and Houston; Doral Renewables raised $400 million in common equity from parent Doral Group for its 17 GW pipeline; Verdantas bought Pax Environmental, adding nearly 75 staff; Recurrent Energy closed $695 million for the 330 MW Cobalt Solar project and brought the 150 MW Carwarp Energy Park online early under a Microsoft power deal; Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners closed $510 million of debt on a 420 MWdc Mexican solar-plus-storage plant; Ranchbot raised a $15 million Series B and set up a U.S. holding company in Texas; Arevon energized a 300 MW/1,200 MWh battery project backed by $920 million; Jacobs won a $750 million pipeline overhaul on Utah's Strawberry High Line; Netafim launched GrowSphere FLEX for smallholders, who farm 84% of the world's total; BrightFarms landed Kroger and Costco shelves in Dallas and Atlanta; and USDA and DHS signed a memorandum pairing animal-health expertise with border security against New World screwworm.

The premium edition this week is Gene Editing Grew Up. The Genetics Land Grab Is On. — 33 database entries across crop genomics, science and seeds since mid-May, from Tropic's acquisition of Rahan Meristem to Corteva spinning out its seed-and-genetics arm as Vylor.

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]]>467ba429-eacc-46e0-b61d-79cbf6791528Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -050010:19falsefull22Featuring News From Xylem, Mazavida, Verdantas, Nuclea Energy, Doral Renewables, Netafim, BrightFarms and RanchbotIGD001: Current AffairsIGD001: Current AffairsIndoor farming's harshest lesson yet, dealmaking across three continents, and $263 million flowing into grid storage.

80 Acres Farms raised $390 million across six rounds and became one of the largest vertical farms in the United States. This week it began winding down, unable to line up fresh capital β€” a blunt reminder that indoor-growing economics remain brutal.

That's the lead story in the very first iGrow Digest: energy, water and agriculture in one quick listen. Also this week β€” Farmmi moves on Brazil's soybean and sugar trade with an all-stock bid for Four Seasons Holding Group; Aquatech extends into Middle East water treatment by acquiring Metito Chemical Solutions; Boralex clears its final approvals to go private at $37.25 a share; Frontier Power raises $263 million and picks up an 800 megawatt-hour battery project in Texas; and Ørsted switches on 500 megawatt-hours of storage in Needville, Texas.

Want the deeper numbers? This week's premium edition, Seed Capital, breaks down agriculture's inputs layer β€” seeds, genetics, biologicals and fertilizer β€” with a full year-over-year read on 6 M&A deals, 23 funding rounds, 33 partnerships and 17 product launches. Read the full edition.

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(00:00) Cold Open

(00:25) The Scorecard

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]]>Indoor farming's harshest lesson yet, dealmaking across three continents, and $263 million flowing into grid storage.

80 Acres Farms raised $390 million across six rounds and became one of the largest vertical farms in the United States. This week it began winding down, unable to line up fresh capital β€” a blunt reminder that indoor-growing economics remain brutal.

That's the lead story in the very first iGrow Digest: energy, water and agriculture in one quick listen. Also this week β€” Farmmi moves on Brazil's soybean and sugar trade with an all-stock bid for Four Seasons Holding Group; Aquatech extends into Middle East water treatment by acquiring Metito Chemical Solutions; Boralex clears its final approvals to go private at $37.25 a share; Frontier Power raises $263 million and picks up an 800 megawatt-hour battery project in Texas; and Ørsted switches on 500 megawatt-hours of storage in Needville, Texas.

Want the deeper numbers? This week's premium edition, Seed Capital, breaks down agriculture's inputs layer β€” seeds, genetics, biologicals and fertilizer β€” with a full year-over-year read on 6 M&A deals, 23 funding rounds, 33 partnerships and 17 product launches. Read the full edition.

In this episode:

(00:00) Cold Open

(00:25) The Scorecard

(01:15) The Big Deals

(02:21) Powering Down

(02:55) Follow the Money

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(06:28) Quick Hits

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