SMSF sector growing but wary
Australia's self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector continues to break records even as trustees brace themselves for potential wide-ranging legislative changes in the next Budget.
Volatile market welcomed by online traders
Volatile market conditions are taking their toll on portfolios, refocusing investors' minds on their asset mix.
China's fascination with Australian thoroughbreds
Australia's reputation as a producer of quality thoroughbreds continues to draw huge interest from overseas buyers, with China leading the way.
Turning warehouses into farms
Aerofarming, also known as vertical or 'skyscraper' farming, is a futuristic model of indoor farming taking off in warehouses in cities in Japan, the US and Singapore.
Agricultural training back in demand
The number of farmers in Australia might have fallen dramatically over the past two decades but agricultural degrees are back in vogue.
Smart farming moves from lab to paddock
Amidst the rolling pastures of Armidale, NSW sits a state-of-the-art "farmhouse", inside which trainee farmers sit glued to mounted screens tracking fluorescent dots across digital paddocks.
Agribusiness start-ups need backing
Many young agribusiness entrepreneurs are forced to head to the US for financial backing
GRDC focusing on public-private partnerships
Chairman of the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), a leading government research organisation in the Australian grains industry, Richard Clark said his organisation would continue to provide a bigger 'bang for bucks' for the farmers whose levies form a key part of the GRDC budget.
Agribusinesses lifts the bar
The "innovation" economy and its highly-prized reward – productivity – has a new frontier: agriculture – and the terrain is vast.
LOGOS take Brazil's site in Brisbane for $50m
Macquarie-backed LOGOS Property Group has snapped up the largest industrial land deal in Queensland this year paying about $50 million for private investor Lyn Brazil's last strategic parcel on the Logan motorway.
