Agribusiness

Property values may be plummeting in much of the country, but agricultural land prices have just seen an explosion due to some unexpected global forces.

Strong seasons, high yields and healthy commodity prices are driving interest in farmland, especially in tightly held Gippsland. But an economist warns conditions are not quite what they were in 2021.

A Healesville winery, previously owned by the GP who delivered Olivia Newton-John into the world when she was an infant, is on the market for the first time in 40 years.

Australia’s largest private landholders have bought a cattle station three times the size of the ACT. ‘We’re seeing smiles all round’, an agribusiness expert says of the market.

Skyrocketing input costs, stagnant farm gate prices, the expense of transitioning to cage-free, floods and lingering Covid disruptions have put Australian egg farmers under unprecedented pressure in 2022, sparking recent supply issues and potential consolidation of the industry.

A sprawling Officer South site used for training horses has sold for a mammoth sum beyond $100m after last changing hands for just $379,000 in 1994.

A lifestyle and grazing property on the border of the Barossa Valley and Adelaide Hills is ripe for picking.

A camel farm on the outskirts of the Qld capital is set to become an enormous cannabis estate – for medicinal reasons – after it changed hands for millions at auction.

Escape the hustle and bustle of the city at this boutique winery offering a new owner the chance to live and work in the Perth Hills.