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.
In this episode:
(00:00) Cold Open
(00:21) The Impact Scorecard
(01:45) Corporate and Financial Shifts
(06:57) Innovation and Public Strategy
(08:41) Market Signals and Operations
(11:15) Close
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