• Global commodity boom driving farmland bids
    • Dominion Post
    • 03 October 2011

    Sir Michael Fay, his mainly Maori colleagues, and the rival Chinese bidders for the Crafar dairy farms, have one thing in common. In a world where global investors are all looking for safe havens for their money, they see New Zealand farmland as good buying.

  • King Country trusts join bid for Crafar farms
    • Waatea
    • 22 September 2011

    Hardie Peni says joining the consortium with other iwi and agribusiness investors was the only way to get a chance to buy the land.

  • Receivers say Pengxin offer for Crafar farms still best
    • Radio New Zealand
    • 21 September 2011

    The receivers of the Crafar farms say a bid from a New Zealand-based group is not as generous as the one from a Chinese group.

  • Germany dominates NZ dairy farmland sales
    • Agra Europe
    • 16 August 2011

    Despite all the attention on Chinese bids for New Zealand dairy farms, it is in fact Germany that is fast expanding its investments in this sector.

  • Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
    • NZ Herald
    • 16 August 2011

    One of New Zealand's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.

  • China ready to fight for its pound of flesh
    • NZ Herald
    • 10 August 2011

    Two issues are bound to feature in New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser's talks in Beijing next week: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra’s market power in the China domestic market and Chinese investment intentions within New Zealand.

  • Chinese say farmland investments not to be feared
    • 3 News
    • 04 August 2011

    The Chinese Embassy in Wellington wheeled out a government spokesman today in a rare move, to tell New Zealanders they have nothing to fear from Chinese farmland investments.

  • Italian firm buys high country stations
    • Otago Daily Times
    • 31 July 2011

    The Italian-based Reda Holding SpA owns 16,660 ha in the Waitaki Valley

  • NZ missed out on global land grab, NZIER says
    • Scoop
    • 11 July 2011

    New Zealand’s relative isolation and high-priced property means the nation has missed out on a global grab for land, especially farms, despite rising public disquiet about such sales, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research says.

  • A explosão da soja e do algodão baiano
    • Midia News
    • 02 July 2011

    No início de abril, uma delegação baiana desembarcou na China - aproveitando a visita da presidente Dilma Rousseff à Ásia - para dar encaminhamento a este e a outros investimentos estrangeiros.

  • New Zealand agency hits the road selling to Asia and Europe
    • OPP
    • 17 June 2011

    New Zealand-based agency Bayleys is putting together a portfolio of overseas property opportunities, including farms, to take on a roadshow to South East Asia, Europe and Britain.

  • How the land lies
    • Knight Frank
    • 02 June 2011

    Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011

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