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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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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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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