One of the big names in corporate-scale farmland investing is selling its foundation properties in Queensland as its founding chairman and namesake, Bill Gunn, eases the throttle on his energetic agribusiness career. The 12-year-old Gunn Agri Partners expects to offload three Roma district cattle holdings, totalling 36,000 hectares, by early 2026. At the same time, however, its cattle fund is on the lookout to potentially replace the properties with fresh assets, such as feedlots. Gunn Agri is being tempted by a surge of interest from vertical integration investors in the beef supply chain. The group's various investment funds have accumulated more than $1.1 billion in assets spanning more than 1 million hectares on northern Australian stations and irrigated row crop, tree crop and mixed farming properties in Queensland, NSW, South Australia and Western Australia. It also owns farm management operations such as the Cunningham Cattle Company, which Mr Gunn also chaired until ...