ONE of agriculture’s most prolific investors in recent years has delivered a call to arms at this week’s Wilmot field day, calling on more “suits” to visit farmland.
Alasdair Macleod is the executive chair of the Macdoch group, which owns Wilmot Cattle Company, a series of agtech companies including Maia Grazing and FarmBot and this week launched a carbon service provider called Atlas Carbon. Macdoch also has a philanthropic arm, which invests in projects linking “natural capital” to farm productivity.
The company is well-known for a deal it made with Microsoft, selling…
