New Zealand

China's Agria wins control of Wrightson
- TVNZ
- 15 April 2011
Agria has lifted its stake in PGG Wrightson to 50.5%, putting control of New Zealand's biggest rural services company in Chinese hands.
New bid to buy Crafar farms expected this week
- Radio New Zealand
- 12 April 2011
Pengxin International of Shanghai, which already has farmland holdings in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Cambodia, has offered to buy the 16 North Island Crafar farm properties in New Zealand
Little Sheep eyes farm in New Zealand, paper says
- EJ Insight
- 11 Mar 2011
China's Little Sheep Group says it plans to build a sheep farm in New Zealand in order to increase the supply of lamb for its hot pot restaurant chain business.
NZ Super starts buying up farms
- NZ Herald
- 03 February 2011
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund's purchase of a New Zealand farm is just the first of a $500 million plan which will see it invest in local and international rural land.
Germans buy 3314ha of dairy land
- Stuff
- 01 February 2011
German investors have splashed out more than $100 million in a month buying thousands of hectares of dairying land in the South Island.
German interests buy into New Zealand dairy farms
- M&C
- 31 January 2011
German investors have bought 11 dairy farms covering more than 3,600 hectares in New Zealand's South Island
Chinese developer may buy Crafar Farms in New Zealand
- Bloomberg
- 28 January 2011
Shanghai Pengxin Group, a Chinese property developer and owner of agriculture and mining ventures, is seeking to buy 16 dairy farms in New Zealand after the government rejected an earlier bid by another Chinese company.
Govt tightens foreign investment rules
- Farmers Weekly
- 10 January 2011
NZ Finance Minister says new test of more than 10 times the average farm size for foreigners buying land is not a cap.
Agria interest purely investment: chairman
- Otago Daily Times
- 26 December 2010
Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
New Zealand regulator rejects Natural Dairy's acquisition
- Capital Vue
- 23 December 2010
The New Zealand Minister for Building and Construction and the Minister of Finance rejected Natural Dairy Holdings’ application to acquire Crafar Farms, the largest private family farm in New Zealand
Blocage d'un projet d'achat d'exploitations laitières par des Chinois
- La France Agricole
- 22 December 2010
La Nouvelle-Zélande a bloqué, mercredi, un projet controversé de rachat de grandes exploitations laitières, aujourd'hui en faillite, par un groupe coté à Hong Kong, territoire appartenant à la Chine.
TPP negotiations could open NZ up to US land grab
- Green Party
- 06 December 2010
New Zealand’s overseas investment regime will be on the US’ hit list during the Trans Pacific Partnership talks this week.