Australia

Get big or get out: Trying to survive in Australia's agriculture industry
- SBS
- 19 April 2022
Young people are moving away, foreign and domestic investors are moving in and smaller farms are being swallowed up.
Australia: Warakirri makes two foundational investments for Warakirri Farmland Fund
- GAI
- 05 April 2022
Created specifically for domestic and offshore institutional investors, the fund has already secured significant cornerstone funding from one of the largest pension funds in Europe
Despite fears of foreign control, Aussies own the lion's share of agriculture
- QCL
- 28 Mar 2022
When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.
Good time to sell, US investors cash in last Aussie farms
- Farm Online
- 23 Mar 2022
Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.
Aussie-Canadian $55-million fund partnership
- Farms.co
- 14 Mar 2022
A joint venture between Australia's Warakirri Asset Management and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has acquired a grain growing aggregation in Riverina, Australia for more than $55 million
Gina Rinehart: Foreign investors should be limited to minority stakes in farmland to protect national interest
- West Australian
- 09 Mar 2022
Australia’s richest person believes foreign ownership of Australian farmland should be capped at a maximum of 49 per cent to protect against breakdowns in international relations.
Australia: Investors pile in for a stake in our biggest beef company
- Queensland Country Life
- 02 Mar 2022
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
US Agriculture partners with Kempen to exact strategy of SDG farmland fund in the US
- GAI
- 13 December 2021
In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.
Proterra banks $360m from SA, Vic farms
- Real Estate Source
- 12 December 2021
US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.
Rural Funds Management acquires Kaiuroo aggregation from the Rohatyn Group
- GAI
- 07 December 2021
The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a New York-based asset manager with expertise in forestry, agriculture, and emerging markets, announced it had completed the sale of the Kaiuroo aggregation to RFM for an undisclosed sum.
Farmer investment group fights to save family farms as big corporations buy Tasmanian land
- ABC
- 27 November 2021
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
Milltrust Agricultural Investments acquired by Future Planet Capital
- GAI
- 24 November 2021
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.