Agribusiness

City slickers packed up and literally headed for the hills during Covid, and there’s been a big spike in the places they want to live.

With Bunnings and Mitre 10 among its clients, the chance to buy this thriving, decades-old Tasmanian nursery wholesale business has drawn attention from far and wide.

This lifestyle acreage property in Strathalbyn comes with its own olive plantation – so you can literally live among the olive trees.

A farm that stretches along almost 5km of picturesque coastline on the Great Australian Bight is expected to attract significant buyer interest.

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.