December 2024
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- White collar crime
Pump and dumper behind NSW mining application wave
Gabriel Govinda denies his companies are spruiking stock they receive for selling exploration licences. Residents and politicians are concerned about the convicted pump-and-dumper’s involvement in mining projects along the NSW north coast.
- Max Mason
Can a looming trade war revive this niche Australian industry?
Firms such as newly listed Merino & Co are positioning themselves between China and Donald Trump, who threatens to impose tariffs on Chinese products.
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- Jessica Sier
Orchard and vineyard values down 15pc as livestock farms rally
Farmland planted with permanent crops such as wine grapes and nuts has fallen 15pc on average over the past 12 months, according to a key index.
- Larry Schlesinger
‘Authentic’ Jeremy Clarkson tops polls in disaffected, desperate UK
His shift from Top Gear cars to Diddly Squat cows has so enhanced Clarkson’s everyman appeal that people are asking if a political future beckons.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Trophy farms worth $120m change hands in year-end deals bonanza
Among the five properties sold was the 1900-hectare wool aggregation Avington – and its 16,000 Merino sheep – in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges.
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- Larry Schlesinger
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- Trump's White House
Australian farmers caught in Trump’s $16b trade war crosshairs
Barley and other farmers face being squeezed out of the market as the incoming president seeks an agriculture deal with China.
- Jessica Sier
November 2024
Aussie VC Artesian, horticulture R&D group partner to launch $60m fund
The new fund, dubbed Hort Innovation Venture Fund, will target up to 30 local and international startups for pre-seed or early series A funding.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Monday’s big deal shows domestic M&A is definitely not dead
For all the bluster we hear from bankers and lawyers about the ACCC, companies are still willing to take on the competition regulator.
- Anthony Macdonald
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- Agriculture
Elders supercharges agribusiness consolidation with $475m Delta buy
One of the country’s largest farm services groups is buying its private equity-backed rival in a deal expected to be scrutinised by the competition regulator.
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- Simon Evans
Trump will cost farmers money. But they still voted for him
Farmers, migrants and women were not expected to vote for Donald Trump. They explain why they voted against identity politics, lax immigration controls and globalisation.
- Matthew Cranston
Outback property the size of Sydney once coveted by Twiggy now on sale
Mining giant Fortescue has ditched plans to develop a renewable energy project on Rawlinna Station, which is Australia’s largest sheep station.
- Larry Schlesinger
CPE Capital snags $200m Perth meat business
CPE is still in talks with sell-side adviser PwC, sources said. However, the deal is expected to be signed “imminently”.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October 2024
SA livestock farm with historic homestead fetches $28m
Ian and Louise Johnson have acquired a slice of South Australian farming history after emerging as the buyers of the Crower and Fellwood grazing aggregation.
- Larry Schlesinger
Farmland buyers are back after sales slump
LAWD’s Danny Thomas says confidence is back and everyone is rushing to get deals done by Christmas – after sales volumes hit new lows in the first half of 2024.
- Larry Schlesinger
Italian banking family puts $31m New England cattle farm up for sale
The Trabaldo Togna family, which owns banks in Lugano, Switzerland and Milan, is selling the last of its Australian farms, St Aubyns Station near Walcha in NSW.
- Larry Schlesinger
Rich Listers to turn Ferrero nut orchards into olive groves
goFARM, which is half owned by Costa Asset Management, has paid about $60 million for the former hazelnut orchards near Narrandera.
- Larry Schlesinger
September 2024
Treasury sells Karadoc winery near Mildura to wool brokers
The Karadoc winery, which made brands like Wolf Blass and Yellowglen, has been sold to the managing director and chief financial officer of Quality Wool Group.
- Larry Schlesinger
Cotton power couple list $70m ‘carbon positive’ farm
David and Danielle Statham are selling their largest holding – St Ronans in Far North Queensland – as they focus on developing a large renewable energy project.
- Larry Schlesinger
Australian farmland an ‘unbelievable’ opportunity for super funds
Proterra’s Becs Willson says it’s not too late for super funds to invest in the agricultural sector, where land scarcity and food shortages are driving strong returns.
- Larry Schlesinger
Soil carbon capture surges as AI drives down costs
Artificial intelligence can reduce barriers to implementing soil carbon projects as ag tech creates new opportunities.
- Agnes King