Macquarie Pastoral Fund’s Paraway Pastoral Company buys more blue chip agricultural holdings

July 22nd, 2010

Paraway Pastoral Company bought farms from John Kahlbetzer’s Twynham Agricultural Group

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Argadargada Station sold to Peter Hughes

July 20th, 2010

Peter Hughes has paid $5m to buy Argadargada Station, located in  the central Australia/lower Barkly Tableland region of the Northern Territory, SW of Mt Isa.  Argadargada had been put to auction by the Broad family and passed in for $4.7m.  Peter Hughes also owns Lake Nash Station which runs along the eastern boundary.   Lake Nash was owned in […]

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Australian Plague Locusts

July 17th, 2010

I’ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can’t remember ever seeing locusts swarming.  That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek.  Most of them flew a […]

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The Australian Wool Industry

July 17th, 2010

I’m often asked why I don’t take photographs of sheep.  It’s a good question.  I grew up on a wheat-sheep place and have over the years taken a lot of photographs of sheep and particularly love the wool industry.  But there’s two main reasons why to date, I’ve spent a lot of time concentrating on […]

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