Biggest investors, landholders: Who Owns Australia’s Farms 2025
Meet the families, billionaires and investors expanding their hold on Australian farms. Discover the biggest players of 2025 and where they hail from.
AgJournal
Farm succession: ‘The best time to start the conversation was yesterday’
Succession in family farming businesses doesn’t always have to be stressful, and these three successful farming families are case in point.
EU vision puts Australian ag exports at risk
The European Union’s new road map on the future of farming and food is posing a risk to Australia’s canola, wool and sheepmeat exports.
‘Drier than the drought years’: Dairy’s parched season
A crippling drought in southern Australia, combined with sluggish farmgate returns, has left the dairy industry on edge. And for Peter Whitford, it’s never been so dry.
Q&A: Inside AACo’s billion-dollar beef empire
Australian Agricultural Company is the nation’s largest integrated cattle and beef producer. We sit down with managing director David Harris to talk about the challenges it faces in 2025.
How dairy and plant milk can coexist
Producing both dairy and plant milk — once sworn enemies — is about offering choice, dairy prodigy-turned-ASX listed company boss Michael Perich says.
How to juggle higher interest rates and investor caution in ag
With $2.4 billion in assets under management across 67 properties, Rural Funds Group boss David Bryant spills the beans on investor appetite for ag.
The young guns taking the non-traditional path into agriculture
They’re overseeing portfolios, speculating and hedging but these rising stars didn’t take a traditional path to get a job in agriculture. Now, they’re thriving.
Rural property market: What has sold and what is for sale?
The nation’s northern grazing market has emerged as a hotbed for activity, while a handful of high-profile, predominantly grazing properties have also sold.
From paddock to plate: How Aussie beef is taking on the world
Beef is big business right along the supply chain — from farmers to processors, butchers and chefs. So what are the opportunities and challenges for the billion-dollar sector?
Q&A: Spruiking the benefits of Australian ag globally
The first Special Representative for Australian Agriculture offers an insight into its position on the global stage, and where we lead the world.
Who’s ‘doubling down and going harder’ to own Aussie farms?
Premier agricultural assets remain in a position to command significant offers in the market as buyer confidence returns to the market.
Meet the Tassie siblings producing the world’s best steaks
Alex and Sarah Hammond have refined the recipe for award-winning beef from their family farm in northwest Tasmania. Discover how they are taking on the world.
US Election: What could it mean for Aussie farmers?
After months of mud-slinging, the US election is almost here. From tariffs to geopolitical frictions, what could a Trump or Harris presidency mean for Australian agriculture?
The billionaires of beef: Inside the Lee family business
Discover how Anthony Lee and his brothers have pivoted Australia’s largest vertically integrated beef company running 300,000 cattle for the future.
Meet the 32-year-old running a multimillion-dollar farming empire
James Paterson’s farming empire spans 67,000 hectares across 11 properties in Victoria’s Western District and the NSW Riverina. This is how he does it.
The state of Australia’s dairy industry
An average farm with 200 cattle will lose more than $146,000 if no step-ups are announced this season, as farmers say they are “working for nothing”.
‘Untapped opportunity’: How to make money from regen ag
The boss of one of Australia’s biggest agricultural funds offers an insight into the future of farming and investor appetite for climate-based solutions.
What’s next for Aussie farm prices?
Institutional investors and astute family farming businesses have been the most active in the nation’s farmland market, alongside a growing cohort of heavy emitters.
Inside one of Australia’s biggest family-owned fruit farms
Ten million pineapples, 100,000 mango trees and 3400 tonnes of strawberries and raspberries equals a sweet business for these Queensland farmers. Discover how they make it work.
New frontier: What India could offer Aussie farmers
India is shaping up as a potentially lucrative market for Australian agricultural produce. Find out which commodities stand to benefit the most.
Meet Australia’s most innovative farmers
Innovation has been the salvation of Australia’s ag industry as farmers look outside the square to increase production and profitability. Learn from those going above and beyond.
Who Owns Australia: the biggest investors and landholders in the nation
Offshore pension funds have been able to tighten their stranglehold on Australian farms thanks to softer local demand. Discover the biggest players of 2024 and where they hail from.
Supermarkets pushing farmers ‘to the very limit’
Farmers have warned against the power imbalance between themselves and supermarkets for years, and now there is a renewed vigour to examine the grocery retailers.
Farming in nature’s image the key to success
Embracing the power of nature and surrendering to its chaos is paying dividends for lawyer-turned-wine boss Matt Fowles.
One man’s vision to take premium Aussie lamb to the world
Young gun meat processor Will Barton wants to take the sheep industry with him on his quest to produce top-shelf lamb. He shares his insights.
‘Two-paced market’: why institutional investors are flocking to Aussie ag
High net-worth individuals and cashed-up pension and sovereign wealth funds have seized the initiative in the nation’s rural property market in the past year. Find out why.
‘Technology is changing the game’: Why farming is finally attracting millennials
The number of 25-34-year-olds working in agriculture is surging, as young people discover how the sector can create wealth.
Millionaire beef cattle family sees money in milk
Telco entrepreneur-turned-cattle baron Tim Roberts-Thomson has added an iconic Tasmanian dairy farm to his $500m Angus empire.
‘Time to scale up’: Aquna leads Murray cod industry growth
An ASX-listed aquaculture powerhouse at Griffith has raised $80m, with grand plans to produce 10,000 tonnes of fish a year.
‘Cautious optimism’ guiding Australia’s rural property market
The rural property market is on the march again as the seasonal outlook shows promise. See what’s next for farm prices.
Young guns: How siblings run TRT Pastoral
James and Madeleine Roberts-Thomson help run the powerhouse $500m cattle enterprise across Victoria and Tasmania. This is how they do it.
Game-changing fungi locks in soil carbon ‘for centuries’
Loam Bio co-founder Tegan Nock and her team of young scientists have raised $150m to back their revolutionary seed treatment.
Six farms hit the market for almost $200 million combined
The autumn selling season is underway after six separate premier farms across Qld and NSW were listed for sale. See all the details.
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