Macquarie Group

Interested buyers for the company with beef, sheep and crop farms on 28 pastoral businesses across 4.4 million hectares include Canadian pension funds, US-based institutional investors and institutional investors from continental Europe and high net worth investors.

Billionaires, North American pension funds and some of Australia’s most prominent pastoral families have claimed stakes in NSW farmland, according to The Weekly Times’ 10th annual Who Owns Australia’s Farm investigation.

Billionaires, North American pension funds and some of Australia’s most prominent pastoral families have claimed stakes in NSW farmland, according to The Weekly Times’ 10th annual Who Owns Australia’s Farm investigation.

One of the country's biggest agricultural landholders is set to hit the auction block after Macquarie Asset Management told investors it would take its Paraway Pastoral Company to market after 17 years of ownership.

FPG owns and operates approximately 1,200ha of premium farmland across Australia where it grows table grapes, citrus, and berries.

Through Macquarie Asset Management, PFJC will invest in farmland with various crops, such as wheat, beans, cotton and avocados on farmlands spread across eastern and western Australia.

Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.

Macquarie Group's $300 million takeover bid for a real estate investment trust, which owns vast farms across Australia, could pave the way for more farming deals involving the investment banking powerhouse and the fresh food giant Costa Group.

Macquarie Group, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, has announced that one of its agricultural funds will seek to acquire all of the issued securities in Australian listed farmland REIT Vitalharvest

You’d be surprised to learn that the billion dollar barons of Australian farmland are a Canadian government worker super fund, a New York teacher insurance fund and an Australian pastoral giant backed by a Dutch pension fund

Macquarie-backed Viridis Ag has bulked up its national broadacre cropping portfolio, buying a 356-hectare property in Belubula Valley, amid a steady stream of blue-chip farming deals in Australia.

Macquarie Bank has come under fire for land clearing operations undertaken by Viridis Ag, a farming enterprise owned by the banking group’s agricultural investment management business, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset.