Grand Ridge Plantations has lost an appeal seeking to halve the official valuation of its Gippsland timber forest, with a court finding that the trees on the land must be included in its assessed value.
Real estate fund manager Centuria Capital has acquired the management rights to 22 agricultural properties worth $444 million, expanding its portfolio in the sector to $1.3 billion.
The parties in a class action against agricultural giant GrainCorp over alleged noise and odour pollution from a factory in rural Victoria have failed to seal the deal on a settlement reached last month.
Agricultural giant Graincorp has reached a settlement in a class action by rural Victorians over noise and odour pollution allegedly emitted by its oilseed factory in rural Victoria.
The ACCC will not stand in the way of Elders’ $475 million takeover of rival farm supplier Delta Agribusiness, after the agribusiness giant provided an undertaking to divest six Delta stores in Western Australia.
Abbey Animal Health has managed only a “pyrrhic victory” in a patent case against rival Virbac over an antiparasitic drug, and must withdraw its Levamox Duo product from the market, a court has found.
A class action alleging negligent management by the Murray Darling Basin Authority can amend their case four weeks into trial, with a judge finding the late application was not the result of a “deliberate forensic decision”.
An activist group has asked the High Court to overturn a decision finding it does not own the copyright for grim footage secretly obtained by trespassing at a Victorian slaughterhouse, arguing the case has consequences for press freedoms.
The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.
The applicant in a long-running class action over the government’s live exports ban has lodged an appeal after a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place.