This Month
- Agriculture Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
A farming revolution built on down-to-earth thinking
Increasing carbon levels in grazing lands could remove 10 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere says the winner of the Agriculture category.
- Tom McIlroy
Georgian homestead near Canberra sold for the first time since 1841
Manar was an 11,000-acre farm when it was purchased by Scottish emigrant Hugh Gordon with his inheritance for £12,000.
- Larry Schlesinger
‘No water equals no milk’: big dry, cold snap hit farmers
Victorian farmers have been hit by a combination of dry and cold conditions as dairy producers also face a 15 per cent cut in farm gate milk prices as of July 1.
- Gus McCubbing
US private equity firm lists $250m farming portfolio
Proterra Investment Partners is having another go at selling its One Tree Agriculture portfolio spanning 21 farms in NSW and Queensland.
- Larry Schlesinger
June
- Exclusive
- Rural property
Fund manager Allan Fife pays $11m for 180-year-old Yass sheep farm
The Fife Capital founder will add Dowan Hill to a farming portfolio that includes Stonehenge, a sheep farm in Tasmania he bought last year for $25 million.
- Larry Schlesinger
Rural Funds eyes further sales of farms to cut debt and risk
Rural Funds COO Tim Sheridan says the trust may look to sell half-stakes in other cattle, cropping and macadamia properties it currently owns and operates.
- Larry Schlesinger
German billionaire bags $17m cattle farm, Chinese tycoon into cotton
Cathrina Claas-Muehlhaeuser has bought Tuwinga in the NSW Liverpool plains, while investor Jacky Cheung has emerged as the buyer of a big NSW cotton farm.
- Larry Schlesinger
May
Push for wider carbon capture ban in Great Artesian Basin
The Albanese government is being pressured to follow Queensland’s lead and slap a ban on carbon capture and storage projects in the entire underground water network.
- James Hall
‘Johnny on the spot’: China ban ends at perfect time for beef farmers
Just two Australian beef exporters remained locked out of the Chinese market, the latest thawing in the long-running trade dispute between Beijing and Canberra.
- Tom McIlroy, James Hall and Jessica Sier
Rest Super-backed Cibus to push into carbon farming and robotics
Cibus Capital will make a big push into regenerative farming and will use the latest robotics to expand one of the country’s biggest seedling growers.
- Larry Schlesinger
Bird flu fears put health authorities, farmers on edge
Two unrelated cases of the potentially deadly virus have been detected in Victoria.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Live exports
Farmers prepare to go to war with Labor over live sheep trade
A heated meeting between federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt, the prime minister and senior National Farmers Federation officials last week may mark a low point in relations.
- Andrew Tillett
Rural Funds, SA winemakers list $80m of cattle stations
Rural Funds is selling two cattle properties in Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria, while the SA-based DiGiorgio family is selling Aroona Station in the NT.
- Larry Schlesinger
Wagga sheep farm of Fraser-era minister Wal Fife listed for $30m
The 2000 hectares Gundary was owned by the late politician until his death in 2017. Mr Fife served in the NSW and federal parliaments for over 35 years.
- Larry Schlesinger
Former QIC boss Damien Frawley puts Qld cattle station on the market
Damien Frawley, who is a director at Mirvac and chair of Hostplus, is the biggest shareholder of Blue Sky Beef which is selling Gowan Station.
- Larry Schlesinger
WA farmland boom to end as drier conditions prevail
Farmers in Australia’s wheat and sheep powerhouse state enjoyed a 32 per cent uplift in land values in 2023, but there will be no repeat performance of that in 2024.
- Larry Schlesinger
Farm land price growth to ease to 5pc in 2024 as rural incomes fall
Price growth this year is expected to be less than half the near 11 per cent achieved in 2023, as a three-year agricultural boom fades.
- Larry Schlesinger
Centuria lifts glasshouse portfolio to $450m with big Vic acquisition
Centuria has paid about $100m to buy the Katunga Fresh glasshouse facility in a sale-and-leaseback deal with the Van den Goor family.
- Larry Schlesinger
Qantas Super puts $200m into farms backed by Costa family
The superannuation fund will invest most of the money in two horticultural aggregations that will be expanded by Costa family-backed investment manager goFARM.
- Larry Schlesinger
April
- Exclusive
- Rural property
Chinese billionaire to sell Tassie dairies after Fonterra deal sours
The Woolnorth dairy farms in north west Tasmania and the near 200-year-old Van Diemen’s Land Company are being sold by Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu.
- Larry Schlesinger