The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) AGM has been postponed. It will be held before 12 June, on a date yet to be announced by the AACo. The AGM deferment is due to an error on the proxy form that was mailed out. On May 19th it was announced that Charles Bright has resigned from the […]
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May 20th, 2009Kidman’s Sandringham Station sold to the Gibson family
May 19th, 2009Sandringham Station, located between Boulia and Bedourie in far western Queensland, has been bought by Mick and Marie Gibson, for $7.5 million. Geoff and Shirley Schrader, managers of Sandringham for several decades, have been offered a position on Durrie Station by Sandringham sellers, S. Kidman & Co. The Gibson family are based at Dalby, on […]
S Kidman & Co Channel Country cattle station, Sandringham, for sale
May 14th, 2009According to the Queensland Country Life newspaper, quoting the Australian Financial Review, there is an ‘offer on the table’ to purchase S Kidman & Co’s Channel Country cattle station, Sandringham. Sandringham is near Bedourie in Queensland’s far west, south of Mt Isa, and it has been owned by S Kidman & Co for 105 years. […]
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) ads are scrutinised by The Gruen Transfer
May 14th, 2009Last night’s episode of ABC television’s Advertising/Marketing programme, The Gruen Transfer, scrutinised several Meat & Livestock Australia advertisements produced over more than a decade. These television advertisements are hugely expensive to produce and incredibly expensive to run. Many meat producers complain about their high industry levies, so they should be thrilled to see this intelligent […]
Be Veg Be Green Save the Planet! at it again – now in newspapers
May 14th, 2009Yesterday’s free Townsville newspaper, Sun community Newspapers, has a 3/4 page full colour ad from Supreme Master Ching Hai; ‘world-renowned Humanitarian, Artist and Spiritual teacher’ (her words). We’ve seen the Go Veg Be Green Save the Planet! ads during prime viewing time on SBS television over the last 6 months, but in the newspaper ad, […]
IFFCO (International Foodstuffs Company) & the AACo
May 12th, 2009IFFCO (International Foodstuffs Company) was formed in 1975 and is the ‘leading manufacturer and marketer of consumer goods in the Middle East and Africa’ (as stated on their website). United Arab Emirates based, IFFCO has offices from Russia to the U.S. and Indonesia. Michael Feller has written in Business Spectator that the company is privately […]
Elders Limited, Futuris Corporation, and the Australian Agricultural Company
May 12th, 2009Elders was an agribusiness company founded in 1839, with an emphasis over the decades on wool broking. Over the years a number of well known stock & station agent businesses merged into Elders, for example Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd merged with Elders Smith & Co Ltd in 1963 (to form Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort […]
Koolatah Station, North Queensland, still for sale
May 9th, 2009Koolatah Station, in Queensland’s northern Gulf region (between Kowanyama and Mareeba) was listed for sale with Dick Larkin, of Landmark Queensland, in 2008. The station has miles of frontage onto the Alice and magnificent Mitchell River, and the homestead complex is located right beside the permanently-flowing Mitchell. As is usual for northern Australian stations, offered […]
Mustering choppers crash on Springvale station, Halls Creek
May 6th, 20092 mustering helicopters (R22s) crashed on Springvale station, between Halls Creek and Turkey Creek (Warmun), WA; presumably some time before they were due to refuel at 8.30am. Both pilots, in their 30s, died. Troy Wareham was from Alice Springs but apparently based at Yeeda Station (near Derby) and Matthew Funnel was from Wanganui, New Zealand.