Kiwi's at it again

Thanks Kev. I know I can always rely on you to get the answers for me!LOL!!....although answer this....do we sell or not?? I think not.

As for that place, like I told ya this morning....nice...and in a few yrs Ill have a place like this and we can have it there too!!

Hi Kev ,

I would like to go to a meet in Qld , but that place does not look very interesting . No water to swim and fish in . Just damper eating , roo patting etc .

I think a meeting place would have to have a bit more going for it - or maybe in the middle of some very interesting country.

Thanks ,

Willie .

kev

I don't think there is any definition. The size of a station doesn't necessarily equate to carrying capacity. For example:

1. Anna Creek. Around 24000Km2 with a capacity to carry 12- 15000 head.
2. Helen Springs. 12000Km2 with a capacity of 50000 head.
3. Kimberley Downs. Approx 1m acres. 20000 head.

There's a property for sale north east? of Katherine, but your mate will need long pockets!

Regards

Kim

a farm is usually freehold and clearflled for the production of pasture of crops.
a station is usually leasehold where stock is run over existing vegetation

HI Kev, was wandering if you know what the cost of camping was there please. Hope to go back to Yeppoon in the September school hols, might be some where to check out I think

Cheers Bruce

PS Maybe a good spot for a Qld gathering sometime.

Its quite easy really Kev. A cattle farm is a farm with cows in the paddocks, and bulls in the pens and every so often the bulls get in with the cows and then there are calves and the cycle continues....

A cattle station is like a moosic FM station for cows with i-pods or FM radios, like 95.3 MOO-FM or 2X2 TEAT-FM. Cattle stations are more prevalent inland as the other FM stations drown them out in the cities.

Anyone else will tell you differently don't listen to them. I speak the truth

Geez , you blokes need a history lesson . The difference is not in size or structure , it is in perception of social standing . At the time of settlement our English ancestors could be farmers and be of very high social standing . So , John and Elizabeth Macarthur named the founding farm of the Austalian sheep industry ' Elizabeth Farm ' . But soon after that period , the lowest levels of Australian free society settled on basic farms to scratch out a subsistance . So , unlike in England to be described as a farmer no longer automatically indicated a high social standing . Then came the Squatter . These were mainly newly arrived landed gentry with the means to take up and develop vast sheep and cattle runs , and they were keen to claim a position in society higher than the subsistance level farmers . So they described themselves as graziers . A grazier could call his property whatever he liked , so long as it wasn't a ' farm' . Graziers had runs , stations and downs , and there was no strict definition of size or form so long as there was a presumption of superior social standing and they didn't plow pick or milk . Now I know the waters were muddied a bit by the later flood of pioneer station settlers who actually started with little and had to labour for years to attain the affluence that is the normally associated with high social standing , but even this group new they were graziers and not farmers .In the more egalitarian present there are some who descibe themselves as cattle farmers but this is usually so as not to be seen as putting on airs in the company of farmers .