Chinese firm gets more time to sell stake
    Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline.
    • Xinhua
    • 21 June 2016
    US investors pour cash into $1bn agribusiness fund
    Australian agricultural assets remain a major a drawcard for international investors with a string of mainly US-based investors funnelling hundreds of millions into a $1 billion fund established by the Queensland agribusiness investment firm, Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
    • The Australian
    • 02 June 2016
    Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super
    Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.
    • AFR
    • 16 May 2016
    Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
    Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.
    • P&I
    • 10 May 2016
    Pack your bags to cash in on China’s dairy demand
    In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.
    • Farm Weekly
    • 10 May 2016
    ¿Se puede comprar un país?
    La paralización en Australia de la venta de una gran extensión de terreno a un consorcio chino reaviva el temor a un nuevo colonialismo.
    • El País
    • 08 May 2016
    Dashang takes premium stake in prime Wagyu beef herd
    Chinese retailing giant the ­Dashang Group has snapped up one of Australia’s oldest herds of Wagyu cattle and a second highly productive farm in the prestigious upper Hunter Valley.
    • Australian
    • 06 May 2016
    La fiebre por las tierras agrícolas se desplaza hacia los países ricos
    La compra de tierras agrícolas en África o Asia resultó un negocio decepcionante y los inversores miran ahora hacia países ricos como Australia, Francia o Estados Unidos.
    • Yahoo Finanzas
    • 05 May 2016
    La ruée sur les terres agricoles se déplace vers les pays riches
    La ruée sur les terres agricoles d'Afrique ou d'Asie a généré beaucoup d'espérances déçues pour les investisseurs qui ciblent désormais des horizons moins risqués, de l'Australie à la Californie en passant par la France.
    • AFP/France24
    • 04 May 2016
    Chinese group drops $281 million bid for Australian cattle firm
    The suitors led by Shanghai Pengxin Group will instead work on a new structure for the takeover of S. Kidman & Co., while sticking with the same price tag for the 117-year-old cattle company.
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 May 2016
    Largest agricultural investment under new SIV rules backs IPO Mort & Co
    The largest agricultural investment under the federal government's new significant investment visa (SIV) program has been made in the $174 million float candidate Mort & Co, which owns and operates Australia's biggest independent feedlot business.
    • AFR
    • 02 May 2016
    L'Australie bloque un gigantesque achat chinois
    Évoquant l’intérêt national du pays, le gouvernement australien est intervenu vendredi pour empêcher un consortium chinois d’acheter le plus vaste bien foncier privé du pays.
    • Metro
    • 29 April 2016

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