The Riverine Grazier, 21 January 2026
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Kooba purchase tops 2025 farmland sales
One of the largest agricultural transactions in Australian history has topped the 2025 land sales across the nation. The $500 million acquisition of the Kooba Aggregation by Canadian pension giant PSP Investments. The aggregation, located between Griffith and Darlington Point, is a high-value hub for cotton, irrigated row crops, and livestock, supported by massive Murrumbidgee River water entitlements.
The Riverine Grazier, 14 January 2026
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Time capsule finds a new home
The town's time capsule was installed in its new home last week, lowered carefully from above onto the original stand. Once displayed in the grounds of the former St Paul's Church, in Moppett Street, the time capsule was donated to the town by David Kenton, when he purchased the land from the church several years ago.
The Riverine Grazier, 17 December 2025
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Historic tree immortalised
It has stood in place since the 1870s, but the significance of the Stone Pine that towers over the Apex Park in Church Street has now been immortalised. A research project, headed by Hay Landcare member Sally Ware, has unearthed the history and probable provenance of the tree.
The Riverine Grazier, 10 December 2025
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The Riverine Grazier, 3 December 2025
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Petition calls for halt to National Parks land buy-up
An online petition by mayor of Bourke Shire, Lachlan Ford is calling for the NSW Government to stop purchasing farming land for National Parks in the western region. "In the last 20 years, the Bourke region has lost nearly half a million acres of agricultural land to make way for a suite of National Parks, Nature Reserves and State Conservation Areas - now totalling approximately 860,000 acres managed by the NSW Government," Mr Ford's online statement reads.
