Mustering 2 million hectares for a Grass Motel

Marian Macdonald
Updated July 4 2022 - 11:38pm, first published January 31 2022 - 12:00pm
FarmBuy Real Estate
MUSTERING PROPERTIES: Packhorse Pastoral chief executive pastoral operations Geoff Murrell plans to round up 2 million hectares for the Grass Motel before the decade is out.
MUSTERING PROPERTIES: Packhorse Pastoral chief executive pastoral operations Geoff Murrell plans to round up 2 million hectares for the Grass Motel before the decade is out.

Packhorse Pastoral Company has made its first move into New South Wales with the purchase of 8654-hectare Ottley Station and the company is on track to accumulate 2 million hectares of cattle properties within five to 10 years.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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