Independent field verification for credit, investment and acquisition decisions in the agricultural sector.
Agricultural due diligence
for investment decisions
The team walks every well, reservoir and plantation, and checks what it sees on the farm against the data room.
We review the contracts and licenses the operation provides, the possible loose ends and the missing documentation.
Findings are read as a whole: water conditions yield, and yield conditions price.
Each finding is translated into hectares, flow rates or dollars, and turned into concrete suggestions for the client's negotiation.
Loan and investment
monitoring in agriculture
The real state of the biological asset, the water and the soil does not show in a financial statement: it takes a visit to the farm.
ACM tests the assumptions, yields and margins projected by the company and builds scenarios.
Progress is read against operations of similar zone, scale and age.
An independent opinion, with no conflict of interest with the company or the lender.
Valuation of
agricultural companies
Value comes from hectares, varieties, plantation age and achievable yield.
Every FOB price and every yield is compared against equivalent operations, and then enters the model.
Water, weather and labor, legal and environmental contingencies enter the exercise and adjust the final number.
The company receives the model, the inputs and the commercial material in a transparent and traceable way, and can reproduce the value when an assumption changes.
Search and evaluation of
agricultural companies to invest in or acquire
ACM's previous work brings knowledge of many farming operations and of their management teams.
Costs, productivity and access to water are checked against information from comparable operations.
The team evaluates agronomic management and the condition of the operation to identify risks, investment needs and room for improvement.
The price is analyzed against transaction references, production conditions, risks and required investment.
Market studies
local and international
The analysis relies on field visits and interviews with local growers, exporters and suppliers.
Water, climate, labor, logistics and regulation are crossed in a single analysis.
Experience built in more than 30 countries lets us separate the structural from the temporary and know which figure to doubt.
Each country is assessed with the same variables, so the alternatives can be placed side by side.
Tell us what it needs and we will set up a conversation, with no strings attached.