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11 May 2012Farm Weekly

Farmers support foreign investment register

Corporate Agriculture Australia managing director Gordon Verrall believes WA farmers have nothing to worry about in regards to foreign investment.

07 May 2012AllAboutFeed.net

Hassad Foods and 250,000 ha of Australian farmland

Hassad Foods' farmland purchases in Australia are guided by a risk minimising strategy. The lands are distributed across different climes and water regimes over a wide geographic area.

03 May 2012The Land

Hassad wraps up purchase

With the purchase of nearly 15,000ha of land in Jerramungup last month, the Qatar-based Hassad Food Company now owns 250,000ha of farmland in Austalia

30 Apr 2012ABC

Chinese bid to buy Kimberley land for beef and sugar production

A Chinese investment group has reportedly lodged a bid to buy the entire 15,000 hectares of the Ord Expansion Project in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

30 Apr 2012Stock & Land

Tehan calls for foreign investor review

Liberal MP backs calls from farming groups nationwide to tighten government regulations that scrutinise potential sales of Australian farmland and water assets to foreign investors and increase transparency.

25 Apr 2012The Land

Foreign investment in the time of the telegram

Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

24 Apr 2012The Land

Twynam's flight to Africa

Family that sold Australia's biggest water licence in history has been selling its NSW farming operations and is setting up a new agricultural empire in the Blue Nile state in Sudan

18 Apr 2012ABC

Thai food giant investing big in Australia

CP Group has opened an office in Melbourne to start buying red meat and grains and set up a salmon farm in Australia.

02 Apr 2012Australian Financial Review

Macquarie goes grain farming

Macquarie Group's new farmland fund, which is targeting farms in Australia and Brazil, has purchased its first two properties in Australia worth a total of almost $40 million.

02 Apr 2012Farm Weekly

Caution urged on foreign investment

With foreign investment in agriculture already occurring in Australia, many within the agricultural industry believe we need to be wary.

27 Mar 2012Bloomberg

Australian executives favor trade barriers for food

Almost half of Australian executives surveyed by an international law firm favor higher trade barriers to protect the nation’s food supply and see foreign investment in agriculture and farmland as a threat.