Large-scale properties on the plains of south-eastern Australia have grabbed the limelight with the listing this week of the prized 15,000-hectare holding, Gundaline Station at Carrathool, and the sale at auction last week of Roseochi, a dryland aggregation in the Murray/Mallee which has set a new per-hectare price record for large-scale cropping country…Read More
Liz Wells, October 3, 2017
Values for farming country on the southwest slopes of New South Wales have undertaken a meteoric rise in the past 10 years thanks to corporate and family farming demand…Read More
Liz Wells, June 19, 2017
Harvard University has listed the 32,567-hectare Lachlan River Portfolio, giving investors the chance to buy into well-watered and positioned irrigation and dryland Riverina country…Read More
Grain Central, May 7, 2019
Another corporate investor is set to exit the Menindee district in western NSW with Thomas Foods International’s (TFI) listing of its 5278-hectare property Texas Downs…Read More
Liz Wells, April 30, 2019
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