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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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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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.

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 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 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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Two reactor developers hit the public markets in the same week — 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 — building reactors that follow data-center load — 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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