Australia

The biggest property sale on earth
- Daily Mail Australia
- 23 June 2015
One of the world's largest farms is up for sale in Australia, with bidders hailing from China, the US, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, South America and Indonesia
China backs Northern Australia Asia foodbowl push
- Australian Financial Review
- 18 June 2015
China has backed turning northern Australia in to a food bowl for Asia saying the free trade deal will aid Chinese investment in farms in the region.
La Chine et l'Australie signent un accord de libre-échange
- AFP
- 17 June 2015
Les investisseurs privés chinois pourront injecter jusqu'à un milliard de dollars australiens sans feu vert préalable du conseil de surveillance des investissements étrangers, avec quelques exceptions pour les terres agricoles et les entreprises agroalimentaires.
Barnaby Joyce draws line in the soil on foreign farm buyers
- The Australian
- 15 June 2015
Australian Ag Minister supports banning all foreign governments and foreign state-owned companies from buying Australian farmland, saying such acquisitions could “undermine the national interest”.
Rural agents bet on farmland boom
- Farm Weekly
- 01 June 2015
Competition is growing between Australia's major rural land selling agents as major institutional and private investors seek to gain a foothold in the growth area of agriculture.
Cargill's Black River enjoys more Australian farmland profits
- Financial Review
- 25 May 2015
A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agricultural company, Cargill, has enjoyed another strong profit from its Australian farming investment – the land and logistics company BFB Group.
Chinese company Kimberley Agricultural Investment sows first crops in Ord Stage 2
- ABC
- 18 May 2015
Of the 600 hectares of farmland that KAI has cleared and prepared, roughly 250 hectares will be dedicated to the chia, with sweet sorghum to be planted next.
Vicstock venture pulls back
- West Australian
- 07 May 2015
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
Chinese investor plans to spend $100m on beef
- Australian Financial Review
- 04 May 2015
One of China’s largest beef producers, Honda Agriculture, is looking to buy up to $100 million worth of cattle property in Australia over the next 12 months.
New Australian agribusiness fund targets U.S. investment
- FIN Alternatives
- 27 April 2015
Alternative investment management firm Blue Sky is targeting North American institutional investors with a new strategy that will invest in Australian agriculture and related industries.
Green tape could kill Ord farm
- West Australian
- 22 April 2015
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
Canadian fund buys McCamley stations
- Financial Review
- 20 April 2015
One of Canada's largest pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has made its first rural land purchase in Australia through central Queensland's Hewitt Cattle Company.