Australia

Investors expected to attend the Global AgInvesting event include APG Asset Management, one of Europe’s largest pension investors, Canada’s Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

American fund manager RRG Capital Management is preparing to sell its third major horticultural venture as it accelerates a sell-off of its Aussie farms.

Tech giant Apple is among a pool of global investors pouring millions into Queensland's macadamia nut industry, looking to secure carbon-saving "natural capital assets".

Canadian pension funds PSP Investments and OMERS were earlier named as potential ­bidders for the beef, sheep and cropping operations, along with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

The entire portfolio, including 18,250 megalitres of water entitlements, would be of interest to pension and sovereign wealth funds from Europe, the Middle East or North America, said sources with knowledge of the sale who were not authorised to speak publicly.

Overseas farmland investment surged by 34 per cent last year, with 46 deals worth $2.5bn approved in just three months.

A mammoth Canadian pension fund, PSP Investments, has listed 4200 hectares of prime NSW agricultural land for sale across six Central West properties.

US and Canadian pension fund managers have submitted multiple bids for Australia’s $3bn Paraway Pastoral empire, and its vendors are assessing offers for the 4.4 million hectare agricultural business.

Foreign investors held registered interests in 50.262 million hectares of Australian agricultural land at 30 June 2025, according to new data tabled in Federal Parliament.

A new joint venture between Nippon Steel Trading and Energreen Australia will establish a large scale pongamia plantation near Emerald, aimed at supporting biofuel production and strengthening trade ties with Japan.

A portfolio of four southern Queensland dryland cropping farms have been sold at auction by the US-based private equity firm Proterra Investment Partners for $19m combined.

The 22,000-hectare Rushy Lagoon property has been a major dairy and beef producer for decades, but pine plantations could be in its near future, as UK's largest forestry asset manager has made a bid for it.