Caragabal property Warrakimbo is up for sale, offering 3992 hectares of central NSW grazing and dryland cropping country with an irrigation licence and cotton-production potential…Read More
Grain Central, April 12, 2019
The Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) has acquired 200,000 hectares in Western Australia’s eastern wheatbelt and is now preparing to plant its first large-scale winter crop in Australia…Read More
Liz Wells, April 5, 2019
Ceres Agricultural Company has gone into administration this week as its sale to Macquarie’s Viridis Ag of the 9300-hectare Brudle Park cropping aggregation north of Moree for around $50 million is finalised…Read More
Liz Wells, March 29, 2019
German engineering firm ib vogt GmbH has approval to build the first solar farm for the southwest slopes of NSW on 248 hectares of leased mixed-farming country at Sebastopol near Temora…Read More
Grain Central, March 21, 2019
Warakirri’s Daybreak Cropping has expanded into Queensland with its purchase of Kinbeachie at Toobeah from One Tree Agriculture for a rumoured $25 million…Read More
Grain Central, March 11, 2019
Louis Dreyfus this week listed for sale its northwest NSW grain storage at Moree, a further divesting step by the company as it separates its grain and cotton operations…Read More
Liz Wells, February 26, 2019
Macquarie’s Paraway Pastoral Company is selling its Bundemar Park, Laura Downs and Paddy’s River aggregations to reduce the size of its Coonamble and Trangie holdings following its purchase last year of a clutch of Hassad assets…Read More
Liz Wells, February 12, 2019
In what is set to become one of the shortest ownerships in recent corporate-farming history, Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management’s Viridis Ag is preparing to offload its South Australian cropping aggregation and part of its NSW mixed-farming aggregation, both of which were purchased in October last year…Read More
Liz Wells, February 11, 2019
CSIRO and rural technology start-up, Digital Agriculture Services (DAS), have launched an innovative new platform that combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud-based geospatial technology that will comprehensively assess and monitor rural land anywhere in Australia,..Read More
Grain Central, January 22, 2019
Australian grain growers are set to reap benefits of a $50 million venture capital fund to draw the best and brightest tech start-ups from across the globe to focus on innovative solutions for grain growers’ hardest to solve problems…Read More
Grain Central, February 19, 2019Sheila Elder from Manitoba and David Ricardo from Walgett have built apps to help improve the efficiency of their farming operations on opposite sides of the planet.
Sarah Hoffman, GrainsWest magazine, Canada, February 6, 2019A new weed identification mobile app developed for the cotton industry could have wider application across a range of other crops in the broadacre farming sector…Read More
Grain Central, January 23, 2019