Anna Ck Station closing..

ya kiddin???? Bugger...the biggest and probably one of the most famous ones too hey...good luck to them!

Is it for ever or only untilit raines again.

When I passed that way last September a local told me that they had already destocked down to about 20%. I think that The uranium mine at Roxby Downs (can't think of their name !) had purchased a VERY large chunk of land from Anna Creek for future mining.

The Painted Hills are on Anna Creek. It will be interesting to see what happens to that part of the station, hope it does not get opened up to much.

I saw the manager interviewed on tv, I gather the destocking is
due to current pastoral conditions & normal operations will resume
when & if rain falls. This destocking usually occurs when stock have to travel too far between food & water & lose condition as a result. I lost condition between the carpark & the pub last year..
fortunately the rehydration program administered by a lovely young
lass of Nordic origins worked a treat & I was able to spend a comfortable night under the portals of Algebukina Bridge.....
aint life grand.....oldbaz.

Most multi station property owners move stock around due to the season. Anna Creek is not closing down just relocating their stock to greener pastures.

Anna Creek is still going to be staffed as maintenance doesn't stop.

The only reason they made it on the news is because they are the biggest cattle station in the world.

A lot of larger farmers here in S.A have a property up north and another down the south east.

Hmmm, tried to post a link, but it contained the words 'L a n d l i n e', which apparently are not well liked.

Anyhoo, if you go to ABC and look for L-a-n-d-l-i-n-e you will find the excerpt from this weekends gone show on the situation, titled creekd dried up. I thought it a well thought out and justified reason for destocking, especially there recognition that by continuing to graze, they would only put more strain on the environment.

I've just been in SMS contact with Kidman's Pastoral Manager who confirmed that they are moving stock off Anna. I know they do stock movements between their properties routinely to make the best of changing environments so this story had me wondering.

He also confirmed that there has been no sale of any part of the property so the yarn about the mining company buying a large chunk is nonsense.

Sidney Kidman based his empires principle on moving stock off dry stations. It was so successfull he ended up owning portions of Australia that made him one of the largest single landholders in the world.

One day it'll rain and the cattle will come back.

In 04 one of the staff on the station in the WC pub told me that either that or the station next door's free hold had been bought by a mining company. From memory it was Western Mining Co. but I could be wrong.

Dave