Rawlinna Station in Western Australia is the largest sheep station in Australia.
WILGENA, Australia's and the world's largest sheep station, is 3,000 square miles in area—one-sixteenth the size of England.
Anna Creek Station is the world's largest working cattle station. It is located in the Australian state of South Australia.
With 10 acres to wander you will be able to immerse yourself into some of Australia's wonderful history, Anlaby Station being the oldest Merino sheep stud on mainland Australia it is full of history!
Uardry sheep station at Hay in the NSW Riverina. Jackaroos and jillaroos at Wyvern Station at Carrathool NSW, which is the biggest of the TA Field Estates wool growing stations.
Australia's remote Anna Creek Station clocks in at roughly 6 million acres—more than seven times the size of King Ranch in Texas–and its sale package will include 160,000 head of cattle.
Australia's largest private landowners, pastoralists Donny and Colleen Costello, have expanded their cattle station empire to more than 9.2 million hectares, after acquiring Mount Doreen Station in the Northern Territory for $70 million.
Arthur Bryant Triggs was born in 1868 in Chelsea in England. From middle class beginnings he became one of southern NSW biggest names in property and livestock. He arrived in Australia in the late 1880s and thought working in a bank was a fine career for a young man with high expectations.
Eleven sheep production regions, based on the ABARE survey regions were identified across Australia.
The predominant breed of sheep in Australia is the Merino. The Merino was first introduced into Australia in 1797 and has over the years developed for wool production. It has also been used for cross breeding with British Long Wool & Short Wool Breeds for mutton and prime lamb production.
The Williams family, of Williams Cattle Company in South Australia, have the title of owning Australia's biggest farming aggregation — the 2.37 million-hectare Anna Creek and The Peake Stations, covering an area bigger than Slovenia.
The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia.
Kojonup mixed farm sells for state record of $100 million, experts say WA farmland could be highly undervalued. A property in the Western Australia's Great Southern region has sold for a new record price of $100 million and real estate experts say farmland values in the state have the potential to climb even higher.
Rawlinna Station in Western Australia is the largest sheep station in Australia.
Key points. AACo is the country's largest cattle herd operator which owns 1 per cent of Australia's total landmass. Its operating profits jumped to $67.4 million in the 2023 financial year, driven by revenue growth across all markets.
Gina Rinehart. Gina Rinehart is the richest farmer in Australia, with an estimated net worth of $36.28 billion. Rinehart inherited a stake in her father's mining company, Hancock Prospecting, and has since expanded the company's operations into the agriculture industry.
In Australia, the states of New South Wales and Victoria have the largest numbers of Sheep and produce a quantity of meat.
Texas has the most sheep and lambs in the United States followed by California and Colorado. The United States has 5.21 million head of sheep and lambs. Roughly 25% of the sheep and lambs in the United States are in Texas and California.
By value, Victoria is Australia's equal largest wool producer with NSW accounting for 28 per cent of national production. The gross value of red meat processing in Victoria, including beef and sheep meat, is approximately $4.4 billion.
Jumbuck is an Australian word for a 'sheep'. It is best known from Banjo Paterson's use of it in Waltzing Matilda.
Western Australia (WA) produces some of the finest lamb, mutton and wool in the world and exports to over 100 countries. Sheep are produced in the south west of the State on broadacre farms, with world class welfare, food safety and environmentally responsible systems.
MERINO VERSATILITY
In all states of Australia and in all environments, Merinos are proving more profitable results compared to other sheep breeds.
Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL), Australia's largest dairy farm, is to be sold to Moon Lake Investments, owned by Chinese investor Lu Xianfeng. The dairy, based in northwest Tasmania, is the single largest supplier of milk in Australia.
The mining magnate Gina Rinehart is Australia's biggest landholder, controlling more than 9.2m hectares, or 1.2% of the entire landmass of the country, according to data compiled by Guardian Australia.
The biggest steer in Australia is believed to be Knickers, a Western Australian Holstein Friesian who towers over its herd at 195cm.