Australia

China snaps up Qld cattle station
- The Land
- 21 September 2015
London-listed M.P. Evans, offloaded 31,000-hectare cattle-fattening property Woodlands, near Westmar, Australia for $28 million to a subsidiary of China's Fucheng Group.
Australie : un quart des terres agricoles appartiennent à des étrangers dans le Territoire du nord
- Nouvelle Calédonie 1
- 18 September 2015
Les vastes terrains au nord de l'Australie attirent de plus en plus d'investisseurs étrangers. Ces trois dernières années, des entreprises indonésiennes et chinoises ont acheté des terres agricoles.
Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture will gather 20 prospective cattle farm investors
- ThePresidentPost
- 17 September 2015
Brazilian investors are currently building a cattle farm of 3,000 hectares in the eastern part of Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara.
New Zealand rejects $56 mln farm purchase by Chinese company
- Reuters
- 17 September 2015
New Zealand's government on Thursday blocked the NZ$88 million ($56 million) purchase of a local farm by China's Shanghai Pengxin amid public concerns about foreign land ownership.
A quarter of Northern Territory pastoral lease land held by foreign interests
- ABC
- 16 September 2015
An ABC Rural investigation reveals the extent of the creep of foreign ownership in the Top End, particularly over the past three years.
Western Australia makes Ord risk demand
- West Australian
- 16 September 2015
Government considers the development of two plots of land on the Ord River irrigation scheme so risky that it demanded a $150 million a year guarantee from the Chinese company behind the farming project.
Dreams blocked as council cries over milk spilling to China
- The Australian
- 07 September 2015
Bass Coast Shire Council last month unanimously rejected Ningbo Dairy Group’s plan to house 1000 milking cows in barns and build a $6 million bottling plant on its main Glenview farm
New Zealand: Pengxin land buy saga takes another step
- Stuff
- 07 September 2015
Pengxin's attempt to transfer New Zealand assets to Chinese agricultural company Hunan Dakang in the middle of seeking approval to buy 14,000 ha sheep and beef farm seen as "bizarre".
China plows big money into Australian agriculture
- Wall Street Journal
- 03 September 2015
Chinese investors increasingly explore a new natural-resource boom in Australia: agriculture, pouring in 632 million Australian dollars ($450 million), almost twice as much as the year before.
Why China's Ma Xingfa bought 705,700 hectares of northern Australia
- Australian Financial Review
- 01 September 2015
Chinese billionaire is looking to expand overseas and potentially take part in the next big boom, which he says just might be Australian agriculture as Chinese people seek out higher-quality food products.
Ag pays off for super-backed fund
- Financial Review
- 31 August 2015
The Sustainable Agriculture Fund, backed by Australia's biggest superannuation funds, has delivered a $4.7 million full year profit and recorded a small rise in the value of its rural property holdings
Pengxin may buy 2 cattle farms in Australia
- China Daily
- 29 August 2015
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin Group Co Ltd is set to become the largest farmland owner in Australia if it is successful in the acquisitions of two cattle farms for A$1 billion ($720 million).