Aussie family’s rare discovery on their farm that’s set to fetch them an eye-watering price

By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 14:19 GMT, 13 March 2025 | Updated: 14:55 GMT, 13 March 2025

An Aussie family have recalled their shock in unearthing a record-breaking truffle on their farm. 

Crews were fixing irrigation on a truffle farm in northern Tasmania on Sunday when they stumbled across a ‘big lump’ buried in the ground.

Farmer Tim Terry and his daughter Anna filmed the incredible moment they dragged out what turned out to be a 1.074kg black truffle. 

With an estimated market value of $1500, the discovery was by far the largest in the farm’s 26 years of operation. 

‘Holy heck, that’s a monster!’ an excited Ms Terry said as she pulled the truffle from the ground. 

‘We need to get to the scales very quickly.’

After cleaning off the soil, the family weighed it again and were relieved to find the bare truffle was still over a kilogram. 

‘Unearthed this monster alongside the old man and it will certainly be one for the memory bank!’ Ms Terry captioned the TikTok footage. 

Tim Terry (right) and daughter Anna (left) with the ‘monster’ black truffle uncovered on Sunday

Truffles (pictured) are notoriously difficult to grow. Ms Terry said doing so in Australia was thought to be ‘impossible’ when her father Tim first started the farm in 1999.

‘I got very excited.’

The truffle was ten times the size of what they usually unearth.

Mr Terry harvested Australia’s first black truffle at the Deloraine farm in 1999. 

Since then, his daughter Anna and son Henry have joined The Tasmanian Truffle Farm family business, which sells truffle products and runs hunting tours for the public.  

Viewers were amazed not only by the size of the truffle, but also by the fact that an Australian farm could produce them, which are notoriously difficult to grow.

‘It’s one of those things you always hope for,’ Ms Terry told Yahoo News. 

‘It was something that was said to be impossible and truffles would never be able to be grown here.’

Summer black truffles are usually no larger than a tennis ball, she said, adding that this find ‘knocks that out of the park’. 

Stuart Dunbar (pictured) claimed to have discovered a 1.5kg black truffle on his Victorian property in 2016

Ms Terry said truffle will likely be divided into smaller multiple pieces to be sold as the lump as a whole would be ‘impossible’ to sell. 

The truffle is not the largest to have been found in Australia. 

Victorian grower Stuart Dunbar is believed to have found Australia’s largest black truffle in 2016, weighing in at 1.5kg, two years after Ted Smith unearthed a 1.172kg black perigord truffle on his Robertson property in the NSW Southern Highlands. 

Though the title is disputed, Italy is believed to hold the record for the world’s largest truffle weighing in at 1.786kg. 

Due to the specific conditions required to grow the fungus, truffles of any size are notoriously difficult to produce anywhere in the world. 

Finding and harvesting them is a different challenge altogether. 

Asked why she used dogs rather than pigs to find the truffle, Ms Terry said it was a practical choice. 

‘I have used a pig and it’s hard work, you have to make sure that you beat them to it otherwise they eat it!

‘Truffles can be right under the surface.’

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Aussie family’s rare discovery on their farm that’s set to fetch them an eye-watering price

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