Daniel Kemp

Sunshine Farms Aggregation was a seed asset for the AAM Diversified Agriculture Fund, with AAM selling as it shifts focus to the north.

The acquisition of Jemalong continues the expansion of Lawson Grains’ portfolio, with co-investor AIMCo keen to continue building out its Australian farmland assets.

Aither’s annual Water Markets Report shows decline in the Aither Water Entitlement Index, a measure of entitlement values, for the first time in a decade.

QIC acquired Stuart’s Creek, a beef cattle property with established carbon sequestration properties, from Packhorse via its Queensland Natural Capital Fund.

Eastwood Forests’ first fundraise has shown how powerful the carbon story around timberland investments has become, including with Japanese LPs.

Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen said decarbonization plans will be set for agriculture and five other sectors, without sector-specific emissions reduction targets being imposed.

The 15-year closed-end fund has been seeded with capital from 10 Japanese companies including Sumitomo Forestry, Japan Post Holdings, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

The Warakirri Diversified Agriculture Fund now has exposure to nuts, viticulture, soft-leaf vegetables, agricultural infrastructure and citrus fruit across Australia.

Palisade’s Regional Livestock Exchanges has acquired the South Eastern and Western Victoria exchanges to take its portfolio to 10 sale yards across Australia’s eastern seaboard.

The acquisition will combine two of the world’s leading malt businesses and ends United Malt’s short life as an independent business after spinning out from GrainCorp in 2020.