THE dominant trend of family farm businesses outbidding institutional buyers seen over the past two years has cooled as a result of shifting debt dynamics according to LAWD senior directors and property specialists Danny Thomas and Col Medway.
Throughout the recent historically high rural property market, family farmers have been hungry to reinvest capital and expand their portfolios, supported by unprecedented commodity prices profitability across the agriculture sector. In many instances, this has been driving the deconstruction of institutional farmland aggregations that have been…