Mark Barber

Mark leads Elders’ national farmland and agribusiness investment team, overseeing corporate sales, acquisitions and advisory. A former Investment Director at a leading Australian agricultural fund manager, he has extensive experience raising and deploying hundreds of millions of dollars and managing major agribusiness transactions nationwide.

Combining strong financial acumen with hands-on farming experience in beef cattle and prime lamb production, Mark is a trusted adviser to institutional, corporate and family investors, supported by deep networks across Australian agriculture.

Some of Mark’s notable recent transactions include:
Macadamia Enterprises, a large-scale macadamia orchard in the Bundaberg region of Queensland. Mark achieved a record price for a developed macadamia orchard in Australia.

The Ray Scott Pastoral Company holdings spanning from Charters Towers to St George. This aggregation consisted of 10 individual property clusters in four major aggregations. By 30 Jan 2026, the portfolio will be fully disbursed to nine separate buyers. The sale achieved the top price for grazing land sold in central Queensland.

In November 2025 the Kimberly Meat Company and Yeeda Station settled after being acquired by AMICO. This was a complex receiver / manager transaction in one of the more remote cattle production regions in Australia. Mark lead the transaction with Greg Smith, Elders North Western Pastoral expert and achieved a value that enable the secured creditors to achieve close to 100 cent in the dollar recovery.