Argentinean John Kahlbetzer’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold 3 NSW properties to Macquarie Pastoral Fund-owned Paraway Pastoral Company. Riverina properties Mungadal (east of Hay), Gundaline Pastoral Company [Cooinbill] (near Carrathool) and Buttabone, northwest of Warren in central NSW. This has increased Paraway Pastoral Company’s livestock capacity to 200,000 sheep and 200,000 cattle.
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Macquarie Pastoral Fund’s Paraway Pastoral Company buys more blue chip agricultural holdings
July 22nd, 2010S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale
June 16th, 2010S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market. At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert. The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and [...]
Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs
June 10th, 2010Recently I was asked about cattle station websites. There are only three reasons why a cattle station or pastoral company will have a website: 1. To attract new investment & keep current investors informed, if it’s a public company. 2. To attract new staff and to boost morale amongst existing staff. 3. To help boost [...]
Another remote cattle station advertised for sale online
June 1st, 2010Harkness Station is another remote cattle station for sale, being advertised online, by way of a Google Ad appearing up the top of searches for cattle stations for sale. Harkness cattle station is a very well-watered property located on the Coleman River headwaters on Cape York Peninsula – halfway between Mareeba/Cairns and Weipa (approx 500km [...]
MacDonald Downs – Creative Outback Cattle Station marketing with new social media
May 19th, 2010In some circles, the popular stereotype of rural residents is of straw-chewing half wits, at least half a century behind the times. Whereas in reality, in rural and remote Australia there is actually a faster uptake and far greater use of the latest technology – at least, the practical, directly useful and durable bits (not [...]
Amalgamation of pastoral leases
May 11th, 2010Ever since white settlement in Australia there has been the problem of absentee-investor owners; people with little or no interest in the bush, who are simply out to make maximum dollars for minimum effort. Such profit chasers invariably sold out within a few years when they discovered life as a member of the ‘landed gentry’ [...]
Properties owned by Macquarie’s Paraway Pastoral Co
May 9th, 2010Macquarie Bank owned Paraway Pastoral Co now has a website detailed the properties owned, with satellite photographs and regional maps showing locations – although there is no overall map showing the geographic spread of all the properties owned. Paraway Pastoral Co properties include one Northern Territory property – Walhallow Station (an amalgamation of Walhallow Station [...]
The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) Board Changes
May 4th, 2010Australia’s largest pastoral company is the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). Unfortunately, the AACo has continued to turn over yet more directors and upper level management in recent weeks (including today). Much to the dismay of AACo staff – both present & past; and, presumably, investors. David Farley has been the Managing Director/CEO of AACo for [...]
Wrotham Park Lodge dismantled & moved to NT
April 28th, 2010Wrotham Park Station was sold in mid 2009 and Wrotham Park Lodge was sold by General Property Trust (GPT) to Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) afterwards. IBA has entered into a partnership with Anthology, owner of several other remote luxury resorts (Wilpena Pound, SA; and three in Tasmania – including Cradle Mountain Huts). In November 2009 [...]
RMWAH investment by Westscheme Superannuation
March 29th, 2010Westscheme, a Western Australian based industry superannuation fund managing more than $2.8b billion, has become a minor shareholder (under $2 million ) in RMWAH. R.M. Williams Agricultural Holdings is a joint venture between Ken Cowley and Primary Holdings International.
