Permanent Crops

Strong commodity prices and relatively cheap water make it a ‘good time’ to be an irrigated producer in Australia, goFARM’s Liam Lenaghan says.

Senior analyst David Magana says strong export markets and new cultivars are helping draw investors who have long focused on almonds and walnuts into pistachios.

AC Fund3 will target low to mid-teens net IRR through a focus on fresh citrus in the US, Australia and Spain that builds upon the firm’s previous experience in permanent crops.

West coast permanent crop specialists Paul Frankel and Jeff Steen, partners at Kachina, consider the most viable options for institutional investors to reduce their California ag exposure.

The firm intends to transition the whole farm to organic certified production and will use regenerative practices such as planting cover crops between tree rows.

The two foundation assets for the Warakirri Farmland Fruit are stone fruit orchards that will be leased to WF Montague under a 20-year agreement.

As the sector grows, organic agriculture is facing a string of possibilities and challenges.

Viticulture land is attracting interest from a range of buyers, sparking predictions that its value is set to rise, says CLM consultant Matthew Berryman.

Foreign farmland ownership in Australia was flat year-on-year, with Chinese entities still topping the list of foreign investors despite a fall in the amount of land they own.

The three assets – Vaucluse, One Tree and Racecourse – are expected to fetch more than A$400m for investors in Proterra’s Black River Agriculture Fund 2.