An innovator who saw big and delivered: Neil Statham

John Ellicott
Updated March 8 2021 - 6:41pm, first published 3:00pm
Sundown Valley had a mammoth cattle backgrounding operation and the Statham holdings grew and grew.
Sundown Valley had a mammoth cattle backgrounding operation and the Statham holdings grew and grew.

It's one of the great stories of Australian agriculture: how an apprentice boilermaker rose to become one of the biggest and most innovative pastoralists of the modern age.

John Ellicott

John Ellicott

senior journalist

journalist and author

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