Rural

The Federal Government has barred the sale of Australia’s biggest cattle station, fearing it could threaten national security.

The wineries behind Coles supermarkets’ largest private wine label supplier are on the market after the company went into receivership.

The thoroughbred facility that spawned Melbourne Cup winners Efficient and Shocking is up for sale on the eve of the great race.

AWX boss Tom Strachan is the latest millionaire to launch into the agricultural market, buying a property in Queensland.

Australia’s cattle industry is on the verge of the largest change since the northern beef depression in the 1970s, sources say.

An historic Victorian landholding more than 150 years in the making is being offered for sale.

Australia’s wine industry is raising a glass with at least 10 Barossa Valley vineyards changing hands in the past three months. Colliers International reports a surge of activity and increasing land prices the famous wine region.

Australia is being touted as the new food bowl of Asia but will that translate into higher prices for agricultural land? Paul Thornhill takes a look at rural land values.