By Autumn Demberger, Global AgInvesting Media
As those from around the world gear up for GAI Australia, Queensland’s Department of Primary Industries has been thinking about how best to bring the area’s investment opportunities centerstage. The June 10-11 event will mark the inaugural summit where Global AgInvesting Australia will bring together institutional investors, fund managers, industry executives, and agtech innovators to explore Australia’s agribusiness opportunities.
What better way to demonstrate the vast opportunities than through an investment-ready projects compendium?
Understanding the context of Queensland helps investors identify opportunities. The development of the compendium was led by the Queensland Government and Brisbane Economic Development Agency through a fairly rigorous process to identify the best opportunities.
Designed with investors in mind, the compendium aims to raise awareness of these opportunities in Queensland’s regional primary industries sectors, all with the hope that it will help investors connect with some of Queensland’s unique opportunities for business growth while at the conference and beyond.
Elements of an Opportunity
The compendium features several different investment opportunities across a number of sectors, each with detailed information on the project, key investment highlights, investment timeline projections, and a description of its goals.
Contact information for every opportunity is included, enabling investors to link up with the projects that speak to the them most instantly.
Through a rigorous selection process, the Queensland government and its partners on the compendium looked for the projects that aligned with the state’s primary industry supply chain, whether they were investment ready, if they clearly articulated the requirement for an investor, and had strong ESG credentialling.
Investment Highlights: A Quick Look at 4 Opportunities
For a sneak peek at what to expect, here are just four examples of the projects listed in the compendium.
But there’s more where that came from: with a total of 28 projects as of May 2026, the compendium boasts a little of everything for investors to to explore.
1) Gogango feedlot development
The Gogango feedlot development is a fully-approved greenfield project, strategically located in Australia’s beef capital, Rockhampton. With 1,227 hectares, the site supports development of a 36,5000 Standard Cattle Unit feedlot and irrigated cropping operations.
The project is a direct response to the growing demand for premium Australian beef in domestic and international markets and is positioned to deliver long-term economic benefits to the region, like job creation, supply chain growth and enhanced agricultural output.
To learn more, visit here.
2) Scaling the future of avocado production
Dandy Produce is already in the business of scaline and automating Ultra High Density avocado growing systems, with more than 40,000 trees designed, tested and refined. This project aims to build on 11 years of agronomic innovation, improving productivity and long-term sustainability.
The current vertical includes producing nursery trees, with a capacity for 200,000, through to growing, picking, packing and marketing. In just four years, Dandy projects that this investment will take tress from production to automation and vertical integration. This expansion of Dandy Produce (over 100,000 trees) will transition the business from high-performing orchard to a scalable, technology-enabled, vertically integrated horticultural enterprise.
To learn more, visit here.
3) Macadamia development project
Rural Fund Management is planning a large-scale macadamia orchard development of up to approximately 1500 hectares across two sites in Central Queensland. Site selection demonstrates a conscious effort to find a space with climatic suitability, soil quality, secure water access and proximity to processing infrastructure.
Since 2016, Rural Fund Management has shown expertise in managing and developing macadamia orchards in the area, currently overseeing 736 hectares of mature orchards and a further 3,000 hectares of recently-developed orchards under management. Recent developed assets are leased to a global institutional investor over a 40-year term.
The development of these orchards is designed to be a precision orchard system, targeting institutional‑grade returns while supporting long‑term sustainability, including net carbon sequestration from permanent tree crops and soil carbon gains.
To learn more, visit here.
4) Engineered soil infrastructure
The aim of this project is to take underperforming farmland and reinvigorate it into productive assets. Carbonaught delivers soil infrastructure through 5 to 10-year contracts with corporate food and beverage buyers. Each deployment improves farmland productivity by replacing fertilizer and lime inputs while generating permanent CO₂ removal.
Each project is deployed under multi-year contracts funded by downstream buyers—primarily food and beverage companies—that are seeking stable, low-emission supply chains. It’s designed so that farmers can adopt the system without upfront costs. Deployment follows a repeatable structure: secure rock supply, contract farmland and underwrite demand through corporate buyers. This enables expansion across commodities and regions without reliance on spot markets.
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Conclusion
“We know investors are seeking opportunities in Australia and there are local Queensland business operators whose businesses are thriving, but also looking for new capital injection through partnerships to realize further growth and productivity uplift to meet the increasing demand for premium Queensland produce from across the globe,” said the leaders behind the compendium.
With the GAI Australia event hosted in Brisbane fast approaching, the compendium promises to bring investors right to the opportunities just ripe for the taking.
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