Australia

China’s appetite for Ord food bowl investment an acquired taste
- The Australian
- 10 January 2015
China’s biggest potential investment in Australian agriculture, a $1 billion high-risk foray in the fabled Ord River irrigation scheme.
Goodfellow takes on China role
- The Land
- 22 December 2014
Agribusiness executive David Goodfellow is heading up a project for Zhejiang RIFA Holding Group to build an Australian livestock property portfolio of similar scale to Macquarie Bank's big Paraway Pastoral business.
Macquarie plays ACE dairy card
- Financial Review
- 15 December 2014
ACE Farming, backed by institutional investors, has stayed out of the limelight, quietly building up its portfolio of 18 dairy farms across Victoria.
Register to track foreign companies buying Australian farmland to be delayed
- ABC
- 12 December 2014
The Nationals, and some regional Liberals, claim that without the register, Australia's food security and sovereignty could be jeopardised.
Colonizing - and selling - the Ord: an Australian tale with a message
- PLECserv
- 10 December 2014
So much for the Ord as a ‘food bowl’. So much too for a new partnership with indigenous people. As in transactions with land-grabbers in poorer lands, the valued partnership now is with big money.
Hawke lobbied for China in Ord
- West Australian
- 08 December 2014
Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke lobbied Colin Barnett to allow a Chinese company to buy a large package of land in the Ord River.
Sundrop gets $100m injection from KKR to grow tomatoes in SA desert
- The Age
- 04 December 2014
Sundrop Farms has received a capital injection from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to aggressively expand its tomato growing operations in South Australia.
China group in Ord River buy bid
- West Australian
- 02 December 2014
Kimberley Agricultural Investment, owned by Chinese company Shanghai Zhongfu, has told the State Government "on an informal basis" it wants freehold ownership of the 6000ha Knox Plain area, in northern Australia.
CPC buys Bunda for $15m
- Financial Review
- 01 December 2014
The $700 million fund, owned by London based Terra Firma, controls 19 properties across Australia's top end covering more than 5.6 million hectares.
Huiyuan Juice eyes Australian farms
- China Daily
- 26 November 2014
China Huiyuan Juice Group Limited, the largest privately owned juice producer in China, plans to invest in the agricultural resources in Australia by acquiring one or two farms.
Terra Firma to sell Aus beef stake
- Financial Review
- 21 November 2014
London-based private equity titan Terra Firma is mulling a partial sale of Australia's largest privately owned beef producer, after being approached by several Chinese companies.
Greenland in talks to acquire Australian food and wine companies
- Bloomberg
- 18 November 2014
Chinese state-owned company, Greenland Holding Group, is in talks with Australian agricultural companies on possible takeovers and plans to complete its first deal in six months.