Australia

German investment fund buying up Kiwi dairy farms
- Stuff
- 10 September 2011
Aquila Capital Green Assets has helped European investors acquire $111 million of New Zealand farmland.
Agricultural businesses almost entirely Australian owned.
- Australia Bureau of Statistics
- 09 September 2011
According to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as at 31 December 2010, 89% of the nation's agricultural land was Australian owned.
Foreign bid for slice of sugar
- Daily Mercury
- 07 September 2011
While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.
A Chinese company looks to invest in Western Australian land
- ABC
- 31 August 2011
China's most powerful agricultural company Beidahuang Group, BDH, has made offers on a number of farms in the state's south west, amounting to about 80,000 hectares of land.
Landholder backs right to 'sell the farm'
- Farm Weekly
- 26 August 2011
Australian farmer Doug Clarke says farmers should not be criticised for making a commercial return from selling their farms to Chinese investors, if the government’s current rules and regulations allow it.
China prowls WA farmland
- Farm Weekly
- 25 August 2011
China's most powerful agricultural company, Beidahuang Group, is looking to acquire 80,000 hectares of Western Australia farmland, with several farmers on the verge of signing.
Should Australia be selling the farm?
- SMH
- 20 August 2011
Agricultural analyst at Citi Investment Research, Tim Mitchell, recently calculated that "rural raiders" from overseas had spent "well in excess of $12 billion" over the past four years on Australian agribusinesses and farms.
Concern about Chinese looking for investment opportunity in WA grain belt
- ABC
- 16 August 2011
The Western Australian Farmers Federation has concerns that Chinese companies are considering buying farms (80,000 ha) across WA's Great Southern and South West.
Chinese company push for Western Australia farmland
- Farm Weekly
- 12 August 2011
A number of growers in the Great Southern have been approached by a prominent Chinese company with offers to buy farms.
Farmers demand owners' register
- The Age
- 04 August 2011
Farmers have urged the state government to establish a register that would list Victorian farms that have been bought by foreign owners. The call comes as concerns grow over the level of foreign ownership of Australian farms and over the control of productive food resources.
PCs another pest for Australian wheat growers
- Reuters
- 03 August 2011
Outback Australian farmers - hardened from dealing with extreme weather, fires and pests - now have to wrestle with modern trading tools and technology after a tough day tilling the land as they adapt to the rigors of a deregulated market.
Plan for China to invest in agricultural business rather than buy the farm
- The Australian
- 03 August 2011
Chinese companies could be encouraged to invest in Australian agricultural businesses instead of buying up farms under a new foreign investment model based on the practice in the mining sector.