Townsville Bulletin

BIGGEST OWNERS IN QUEENSLAND

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NORTH AUSTRALIAN PASTORAL COMPANY

The purchase of the 135,000ha Mantuan Downs Station in central Queensland earlier this year has taken the North Australian Pastoral Company’s investment­s in farmland to more than six million hectares worth about $650m.

Boomarra Station, Cloncurry 108,000ha

Coolullah Station, Cloncurry 214,000ha

Coorabulka Station, Boulia 637,000ha

Cungelella Station, Springsure 21,870ha

Glenormist­on Station, Boulia 692,000ha

Goldsborou­gh Station, Roma 11,600ha

Kynuna Station, Julia Creek 140,563ha

Mantuan Downs Station, Springsure 135,000ha:

Purchased in 2020 from Clark and Tait for more than $60m

Marion Downs Station, Boulia 1,287,000ha

Monkira Station,

Windorah 373,000ha

Portland Downs Station, Isisford 100,000ha

Wainui Feedlot and Farm, Bowenville 5000ha

AAM INVESTMENT GROUP

Manager and operator of the Regional Livestock Exchange. In 2019, raised $60m-plus for a new agricultur­e fund. The group also owns the 285,270ha Legune Station at Kununurra in the Northern Territory and has a number of farms around Forbes in NSW.

Terrick Terrick, Blackall 55,000ha Purchased in 2020.

MCMILLAN PASTORAL COMPANY

Well-known north Australian cattle producer

Corella Park Station, Cloncurry

Inorunie Station, Cloncurry

Wollogoran­g/wentworth, Gulf of Carpentari­a 705,198ha. Purchased in 2020.

MACQUARIE AGRICULTUR­E

The Macquarie Bank funds of Paraway Pastoral Company,

Lawson Grains and more

recently Viridis Ag are ranked as Australia’s second-biggest agricultur­e investor with assets worth $2.7bn.

Macquarie Agricultur­e has an additional $US250M invested in agricultur­e in Brazil.

PARAWAY PASTORAL

One of Australia’s biggest livestock producers with 4.46 million hectares spread over 28 aggregatio­ns.

The properties produce 30,000 tonnes of beef, 1460 tonnes of wool and 170,000 surplus sheep for sale annually.

Armraynald Station, Burketown 214,090ha

Clonagh Station, Cloncurry

Davenport Downs, Winton 1,510,000ha

Gregory Downs Station, Mount Isa 266,425ha

Malvern Hills Station, Blackall 50,070ha

Moira Runda, Condamine

4855ha

Rocklands, Camooweal

677,964ha

Tanbar Station, Windorah

1,021,904ha

214,270ha GINA RINEHART

One of Australia’s richest people,

Gina Rinehart is one of the nation’s biggest landholder­s with more than 9.7 million hectares of land worth

$700m-$800m. HANCOCK PROSPECTIN­G

Beef, dairy and peanut farms, South Burnett

35,000ha

Holyrood, South Maffra, Forestvale and Polana, Roma 21,000ha

Maydan Feedlot, Warwick

S KIDMAN AND CO

Gina Rinehart is the majority owner of the S Kidman and Co business, which has 12 stations spread across 7.2 million hectares.

Durham Downs Station, Eromanga 891,000ha

Durrie Station, Birdsville 660,000ha

Glengyle Station,

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