American woman Rady Ananda runs an interesting website dedicated to discussion of food production issues, called ‘Food Freedom’. The site focuses on discussion relating to food safety, ‘food freedom’ (the right to choose one’s own food and farmer) and trade agreement issues. Rady draws attention to under-reported issues and controversial, thought-provoking topics. A classic example of an […]
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June 6th, 2011Tanumbirini station for sale
May 18th, 2011Tanumbirini Station is to be auctioned by Ray White Rural in Brisbane on Friday 20th May. The 5,000 square kilometre station is estimated to carry around 25,000 breeders – perhaps over-optimistic given the soil and rainfall in this region (between Daly Waters and Cape Crawford, NT). Tanumbirini was bought by Henry and Maria Townshend in […]
60 minutes story on NT cattle station price rises
February 25th, 2011I stumbled upon a very interesting June 2008 60 minutes story on NT property prices, titled ‘Bonanza’. Liz Hayes does a good job of interviewing Ben and Traci Tapp of Mountain Valley Station, Tony Davis of Limbunya, and Marlee and Franz Ranacher of Bulloo River Station. The story focuses on the rise in cattle station prices and […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]
NT’s Victoria River District cattle stations for sale
January 22nd, 2011In 1956 Pat Underwood bought Inverway Station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. Riveren and Bunda Stations were split off the original Inverway station – with John and Terry Underwood settling on Riveren in the 1960’s and Reg and Janelle Underwood on Bunda. Then in 2007 John and Terry Underwood bought Inverway and […]
Great Southern management – Vault Financial Group
December 12th, 2010The Great Southern Managed Investment Scheme went leg up in May 2009 initially with debts of 700 million plus, but eventually it transpired that more than $1 billion was owed to investors. Almost exactly 18 months later, 3 people from the top of Great Southern management have launched into a new venture, Vault Advisory Services, trading as Vault Financial […]
Andrew Cranswick, previous owner of Moola Bulla Station
December 8th, 2010Came across an interesting story in the Sydney Morning Herald. It concerns a Zimbabwean, Andrew Cranswick, who owned a part share in Moola Bulla cattle station from 2001 to 2006. Peter Camm’s colourful past also scores a mention. Andrew Cranswick has been investigated by the ATO for unpaid tax and has now been declared bankrupt by the Federal […]
AACo to sell Brighton Downs Station
October 20th, 2010The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has just announced they are selling another cattle station, Brighton Downs. Brighton Downs is situated on the Diamantina River, southwest of Winton (western Queensland). It will be auctioned in Brisbane by Elders on 8 December. It was bought by the AACo in 1950. The AACo says it expanded carrying capacity by entering […]
Australian Food Security & foreign investment
October 14th, 2010After air and water, food is the most vital necessity for human beings. So only complete fools would ignore any threat to the future provision of quantity and quality food. Yet here we are, more than 20 million of us, virtually ignoring what is happening under our very noses. Why? Presumably because the average Australian […]
Macquarie Pastoral Fund’s Paraway Pastoral Company buys more blue chip agricultural holdings
July 22nd, 2010Paraway Pastoral Company bought farms from John Kahlbetzer’s Twynham Agricultural Group