New Zealand

Shanghai Pengxin receive offers for 'legitimate' farm sale
- Stuff
- 28 July 2015
Bidders have made offers for what Shanghai Pengxin says is the "legitimate" sale of its dairy farms - the former Crafar farms - in south Waikato, New Zealand.
New Zealand: Labour loses bid to tighten farmland sales
- 23 July 2015
A bill aimed at limiting the sale of rural land to overseas investors failed to make it past the first stage when it was introduced in Parliament last night.
Government 'rubber stamps' $6 billion worth of farm sales to overseas buyers
- Stuff
- 22 July 2015
New Zealand MP Phil Goff admits Labour government got it wrong selling land to foreigners.
Chinese company has to go back to square one with Overseas Investment Office
- Stuff
- 22 July 2015
Shanghai Pengxin's decision to restructure its New Zealand farm assets means the company has to go back to the Overseas Investment Office to gain new consents to run its farms.
Aus ag ripe for foreign investment
- The Land
- 16 July 2015
The sliding dollar is sweetening Australia's appeal as an agricultural investment destination ripe for overseas companies and fund managers, particularly from North America and Europe.
PGG Wrightson buys half of Uruguayan rural services firm
- NZ Farmer
- 15 July 2015
PGG, which is half owned by Agria Corporation of China, purchased 50% of Uruguay seed producer and farm servicing company Agrocentro Uruguay.
Fonterra eyes rival farmers with agricultural funding fix
- Financial Review
- 07 April 2015
New Zealand dairy giant will launch a fund that will pool capital from investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds to invest in land and fixtures of dairy farms through a farm-owning entity.
Shanghai Pengxin aims to double its NZ farm assets
- BusinessDesk
- 19 February 2015
The New Zealand farm group arm of the Shanghai Pengxin Group owned by Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhoabai says it plans to double its $500 million of local assets within the next five years.
Agro-alimentaire : la nouvelle stratégie chinoise
- La Tribune
- 17 February 2015
Les investissement chinois dans l'agroalimentaire montent en puissance. Objectif: assurer l'indépendance alimentaire du pays.
Farming, the best investment
- FW+
- 05 February 2015
Billionaire Englishman Stephen Diggle wants to put his wealth in land assets around the world and has bought New Zealand’s largest avocado orchard.
No slowing in demand to buy Canterbury farms
- Colliers
- 04 February 2015
International funds want to invest in New Zealand farming as part of the global trend to secure food production for emerging Asian economies
Americans biggest buyers of New Zealand land since 2010
- NZ City
- 29 January 2015
Americans were the biggest buyers of New Zealand land in the past five years, although buyers from China topped the list in 2014.