Australia

Rural agents bet on farmland boom
- Farm Weekly
- 01 June 2015
Competition is growing between Australia's major rural land selling agents as major institutional and private investors seek to gain a foothold in the growth area of agriculture.
Cargill's Black River enjoys more Australian farmland profits
- Financial Review
- 25 May 2015
A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agricultural company, Cargill, has enjoyed another strong profit from its Australian farming investment – the land and logistics company BFB Group.
Chinese company Kimberley Agricultural Investment sows first crops in Ord Stage 2
- ABC
- 18 May 2015
Of the 600 hectares of farmland that KAI has cleared and prepared, roughly 250 hectares will be dedicated to the chia, with sweet sorghum to be planted next.
Vicstock venture pulls back
- West Australian
- 07 May 2015
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
Chinese investor plans to spend $100m on beef
- Australian Financial Review
- 04 May 2015
One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.
New Australian agribusiness fund targets U.S. investment
- FIN Alternatives
- 27 April 2015
Alternative investment management firm Blue Sky is targeting North American institutional investors with a new strategy that will invest in Australian agriculture and related industries.
Green tape could kill Ord farm
- West Australian
- 22 April 2015
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
Canadian fund buys McCamley stations
- Financial Review
- 20 April 2015
One of Canada's largest pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has made its first rural land purchase in Australia through central Queensland's Hewitt Cattle Company.
Super farm sell-off predicted
- Financial Review
- 20 April 2015
Giant US investment fund TIAA-CREF expects Australia's ageing farmers and a lack of sons and daughters willing to inherit their farms will lead to large numbers of properties hitting the market over the coming decade.
Foreign investment fears misplaced, forum told
- The Australian
- 15 April 2015
Australia's National Farmers’ Federation has criticised the Abbott government’s reduced threshold for foreign farm purchases.
Australia's largest private land owner to sell cattle business
- Reuters
- 10 April 2015
The announcement of the sale - which is expected to attract significant foreign interest - comes a month after the government said it would clamp down on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Mitchell to sell 49pc of cattle stake
- AFR
- 16 Mar 2015
Mitchell's Yougawalla Pastoral Company the latest Australian cattle station business to be put up for sale. Foreign corporations have spent some A$63.5 million buying into the sector in the past month.