Yesterday
Quintis receivers put sandalwood trees, factory up for sale
Sandalwood plantations in WA and northern Queensland and an essential oil distillery in Albany are being marketed by Elders on behalf of receivers.
- Larry Schlesinger
This Month
- Exclusive
- Agriculture
Farmers cottoning on to threat to $4.2b industry
Cotton exports have nearly doubled recently but an increased threat from diseases has threatened to wipe-out crops.
- James Hall
Irrigation automation biz Rubicon in raise; ex UBS boss climbs to 19.9pc
Three years on from its heavily backed float, shares have sunk from $1 to 32¢ and Rubicon is rattling the tin to repair its balance sheet.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Ex-QIC boss Damien Frawley sells organic cattle farm for $25.5m
The new owners of Gowan Station near Blackall are Chinchilla-based cattle breeders Shane and Helen Hutton.
- Larry Schlesinger
July
Costa family puts Victoria’s biggest tomato farm on the market
goFARM, a joint venture between the Costa family and Liam Lenaghan, is selling 4,855ha Winlaton Farms which grows field tomatoes sold to Kagome.
- Larry Schlesinger
Great Barrier Reef island visited by Captain Cook set to fetch $20m
Quail Island near the Whitsundays was last purchased for $2 million in 2020. Meanwhile, a cattle station north of Alice Springs is on the market for about $40 million.
- Larry Schlesinger
New $3m super tax is ‘stealing my children’s inheritance’
Family enterprises face hard questions about whether to abandon their succession and retirement plans by selling their shops, farms and factories,
- Duncan Hughes
- Exclusive
- Funding
Woolies, Harris Farm, Tesla chair, pile in to back biosecurity start-up
ExoFlare has plans to build a global biosecurity tech firm, modelled on international cybersecurity players, and has big-name backers watching as it helps tackle bird flu.
- Paul Smith
- Agriculture Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
A farming revolution built on down-to-earth thinking
Increasing carbon levels in grazing lands could remove 10 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere says the winner of the Agriculture category.
- Tom McIlroy
Georgian homestead near Canberra sold for the first time since 1841
Manar was an 11,000-acre farm when it was purchased by Scottish emigrant Hugh Gordon with his inheritance for £12,000.
- Larry Schlesinger
‘No water equals no milk’: big dry, cold snap hit farmers
Victorian farmers have been hit by a combination of dry and cold conditions as dairy producers also face a 15 per cent cut in farm gate milk prices as of July 1.
- Gus McCubbing
US private equity firm lists $250m farming portfolio
Proterra Investment Partners is having another go at selling its One Tree Agriculture portfolio spanning 21 farms in NSW and Queensland.
- Larry Schlesinger
June
- Exclusive
- Rural property
Fund manager Allan Fife pays $11m for 180-year-old Yass sheep farm
The Fife Capital founder will add Dowan Hill to a farming portfolio that includes Stonehenge, a sheep farm in Tasmania he bought last year for $25 million.
- Larry Schlesinger
Rural Funds eyes further sales of farms to cut debt and risk
Rural Funds COO Tim Sheridan says the trust may look to sell half-stakes in other cattle, cropping and macadamia properties it currently owns and operates.
- Larry Schlesinger
German billionaire bags $17m cattle farm, Chinese tycoon into cotton
Cathrina Claas-Muehlhaeuser has bought Tuwinga in the NSW Liverpool plains, while investor Jacky Cheung has emerged as the buyer of a big NSW cotton farm.
- Larry Schlesinger
May
Push for wider carbon capture ban in Great Artesian Basin
The Albanese government is being pressured to follow Queensland’s lead and slap a ban on carbon capture and storage projects in the entire underground water network.
- James Hall
‘Johnny on the spot’: China ban ends at perfect time for beef farmers
Just two Australian beef exporters remained locked out of the Chinese market, the latest thawing in the long-running trade dispute between Beijing and Canberra.
- Tom McIlroy, James Hall and Jessica Sier
Rest Super-backed Cibus to push into carbon farming and robotics
Cibus Capital will make a big push into regenerative farming and will use the latest robotics to expand one of the country’s biggest seedling growers.
- Larry Schlesinger
Bird flu fears put health authorities, farmers on edge
Two unrelated cases of the potentially deadly virus have been detected in Victoria.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Live exports
Farmers prepare to go to war with Labor over live sheep trade
A heated meeting between federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt, the prime minister and senior National Farmers Federation officials last week may mark a low point in relations.
- Andrew Tillett
