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.
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.
Embracing the power of nature and surrendering to its chaos is paying dividends for lawyer-turned-wine boss Matt Fowles.
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.
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.
The number of 25-34-year-olds working in agriculture is surging, as young people discover how the sector can create wealth.
Telco entrepreneur-turned-cattle baron Tim Roberts-Thomson has added an iconic Tasmanian dairy farm to his $500m Angus empire.
An ASX-listed aquaculture powerhouse at Griffith has raised $80m, with grand plans to produce 10,000 tonnes of fish a year.
The rural property market is on the march again as the seasonal outlook shows promise. See what’s next for farm prices.
James and Madeleine Roberts-Thomson help run the powerhouse $500m cattle enterprise across Victoria and Tasmania. This is how they do it.
Loam Bio co-founder Tegan Nock and her team of young scientists have raised $150m to back their revolutionary seed treatment.
The autumn selling season is underway after six separate premier farms across Qld and NSW were listed for sale. See all the details.
A series of near-record farmgate prices in recent years has made Australian dairy lucrative, yet hundreds of farmers exiting the industry.
A collection of agtech start-ups are solving crucial problems for Aussie farmers and food processors. Now they’re taking their solutions to the world.
As a “catalyst of change” goFARM has built a formidable irrigated farming portfolio in just a decade. Boss Liam Lenaghan details their journey so far.
Major investors are showing interest in large-scale “regen” ag operators who are improving ecological outcomes, profitably. Here’s why.
A Goondiwindi cotton trailblazer is diverting clothing waste from landfill by spreading it on paddocks. He says it offers big benefits to growers.
A favourable exchange rate and less demand in the market is fuelling institutional buyers’ desire to acquire more Australian hectares.
Australia’s transition to renewable energy is slicing through prime farmland, and cutting to the heart of rural communities.
The world’s biggest farmland investor, Nuveen Natural Capital, owns a whopping $2.2b of Aussie farmland. Kristina Hermanson oversees all of it.
Meet the farmers who are measuring whether money spent on ecological conservation can really deliver financial returns.
In South Australia’s rugged North East, James Morgan oversees a pastoral empire that has not just survived, but thrived.
Australian agriculture’s biggest investor and its local partners have opened its farm gates to the media for the first time.
Rising interest rates, softening commodity prices, and a tight supply of farms for sale are factors which will come into play this spring selling season.
A small company with modest ambition has become a medicinal cannabis powerhouse, thanks to its focus on horticulture.
Female founders have mastered business collaborations to make country-chic the hottest product in town.
Meet the six primary producers who could become the next president of Australian agriculture’s most powerful advocacy body.
Offset projects have generated new income for graziers Noel and Jan McMahon in far west NSW, and an emerging market may offer incremental gains.
Western Australian farmers are full of fear as the live sheep export industry blindly hurtles towards the federal government’s planned phase-out.
As leader of ag’s most powerful lobby Fiona Simson has set an ambitious agenda, and changed the way Australians view farmers. Now she’s taking on the world.
It’s a fine art, building one of the most successful Wagyu brands in the country. See how Scott de Bruin leads the way in the now-multibillion-dollar industry.
Cashed-up domestic families and global investors are duking it out for Aussie farmland, with billions of dollars changing hands in the past year.
Meet the 20 high-profile farming families who are outbidding investors and the mega-rich to claim Australia’s most valuable farmland.
A Western District farmer has made $100k in gains thanks to weight data measured in paddocks, proving the power of agtech.
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