This Month
How to cut emissions with seaweed and burgers
The development of asparagopsis as a livestock feed supplement is just one of many ways the agricultural sector is reducing emissions.
- Larry Schlesinger
Penfolds owner Treasury Wine hit with first strike over pay
Exiting chairman Paul Rayner defended share-based incentive payments to the CEO because China wine tariffs came as a shock that no one could have forseen.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
Vineyard Levantine Hill lands on opportunistic credit fund’s radar
Arbritium went as far as to seek co-investors for the deal but was eventually knocked by the Jreissatis given its double-digit interest rate, sources said.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Why this Australian seaweed farmer is setting his sights on Europe
The intense pressure on British and European farmers to cut methane emissions has opened up a major market opportunity for Tasmanian start-up Sea Forest.
- Hans van Leeuwen
September
‘Farmers are spooked’: Why no one wants to buy sheep
Livestock prices are crashing as supply and demand dynamics pull the rug out from under the industry. And there could be more pain to come.
- Brad Thompson
Sheep prices plunge to $1 a head as farmers flood market
Farmers are scrambling to sell before summer as Australia’s sheep flock and breeding ewe numbers hit their highest level since 2007.
- Brad Thompson
GrainCorp boss has no fear of El Nino as farmers count down to harvest
GrainCorp boss Robert Spurway says the company can’t control the weather but is ready to respond to whatever comes its way.
- Brad Thompson
Paine Schwartz wins over Costa board with cut-price $1.5b offer
The chairman of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable group says the certainty of cash in an uncertain environment outweighed other issues.
- Simon Evans
Berry nice! Costa board set to sign Paine Schwartz’s lowered $3.20 bid
Costa’s board is set to bless Paine Schwartz Partners’ $3.20-a-share offer.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Craigs invites bidders to taste test $200m-a-year Kiwi Costa
It exports into more than 30 markets, with North America and Asia (including Japan) making up more than 75 per cent of the revenue.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How 120 workers made millions in KKR’s Australian carbon play
Big Canadian pension’s acquisition of Australian carbon projects group GreenCollar will see the company’s workers split tens of millions in profits.
- Anthony Macdonald
Paine Schwartz slices more than $100m from Costa Group bid
Shares in the country’s largest fruit and vegetable processor slipped after the New York private equity group had a rethink on price.
- Simon Evans
- Exclusive
- Live exports
Live sheep ban is ‘futile’, emirate warns Australia
Kuwait’s government has effectively branded a planned ban on Australian sheep exports as unworkable because it will continue to source live animals from elsewhere.
- Andrew Tillett
Defending insider charge, Joe Lewis lifts his holdings in AACo
Lawyers for two pilots accused of trying to trade on inside information in Aussie beef giant also argued they had no conflict of interest.
- Liam Walsh
How the UK trade deal is giving Aussie farmers a sugar hit
This week the first shipment of Queensland cane sugar arrived at a London refinery, reviving a trading relationship that has been dormant for half a century.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August
Costa delays dividend call with takeover offer up in the air
Australia’s biggest horticultural company says it will update the market on a $1.6 billion takeover offer in September.
- Brad Thompson
Global buyers sweet talk Bundaberg Sugar, owners start $600m auction
Belgium’s Finasucre, which has controlled the Queensland business for more than two decades has tapped Lazard Australia and Kidder Williams.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
