Australia

Chinese group expresses interest in WA milk
- Farm Weekly
- 23 Mar 2012
Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co, China's biggest beverage producer, hopes to invest about $220 million in dairy farms in Western Australia in order to expand its import channels for milk.
Heffernan slams policy on foreign farm buys
- SMH
- 20 Mar 2012
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has described as "bullshit" his party's proposed policy for more scrutiny of overseas companies buying into Australian agriculture because it ignored the real threat posed by foreign government-owned funds buying up farmland.
Barnaby Joyce breaks ranks over foreign ownership of farmland
- SMH
- 16 Mar 2012
The Australian Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony Abbott's failure to rein in National Party ''freelancing'' on sensitive economic issues.
Govt pushes Asian food bowl plan, foreign investment
- The Australian
- 13 Mar 2012
Australian farmers have demanded an overhaul of foreign investment rules ahead of any attempt to harness Asian capital to boost the nation's food production.
COFCO to raise capital to fund acquisitions of overseas sugar firms
- Global Times
- 09 Mar 2012
State-owned food giant COFCO Corp is likely to pursue more overseas acquisitions of sugar companies, its Chairman Ning Gaoning said on the sidelines of the ongoing National People's Congress in Beijing Thursday.
How much foreign investment is too much?
- ABC
- 01 Mar 2012
Senator Bill Heffernan and the managing director of the Australian Agricultural Company David Farley join The Business to discuss overseas investment in Australia.
UK firm buys NT cattle land
- Stock & Land
- 28 February 2012
The 500,000-hectare station, located about 150 kilometres south-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is believed to have sold for about $33 million, and included about 28,000 head of mixed cattle in the contract.
Australian business delegation on Qatar visit
- Gulf Times
- 26 February 2012
Australian business council wants Qatar to invest more in food production in Australia, similar to what Qatar's Hassad Foods is pursuing.
Australia is the great foreign-owned land as more NSW farms being sold overseas
- Daily Telegraph
- 26 February 2012
Foreign companies from Korea, Qatar, US, UK and China are "secretly" buying up large chunks of NSW farmland by establishing shelf companies, trust funds, and extended settlements to avoid scrutiny.
Cargill arm puts $40m into farming
- Australian Financial Review
- 13 February 2012
A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agriculture company, Cargill, has injected almost $40 million into a local company which buys Australian rural property.
Australia: Foreign-owned farmland prediction
- Latrobe Valley Express
- 06 February 2012
Half of Gippsland's farmland could be foreign owned in a decade if current interest in the region continues on the same trajectory, two industry leaders have predicted.
Don't sell off our farms
- Stock & Land
- 02 February 2012
On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.