MARK Menegazzo's Gulf Coast Agriculture Company four adjoining cattle stations have been sold to prominent NSW irrigators Peter and Jane Harris.
The Gulf Country aggregation covers a total area of 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) and is estimated to run about 96,000 cattle.
Prices have not been disclosed.
The transaction included:
- Van Rook, which covers 590,500 hectares (1.46 million acre) and runs some 61,700 head cattle.
- The 125,000ha (308,882 acre) Stirling Lotus Vale, a fattening block that runs about 19,600 head, including a stud Brahman herd.
- Inkerman, which covers 280,000ha (691,895 acres) is bordered by water on three sides - the Nassau River to the north, the Staaten River to the south, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the west - runs about 10,000 breeders.
- Dorunda, which was named after the first vessel to carry beef from Queensland to Great Britain in 1881, is 110,010ha (271,841 acres) and runs about 3000 breeders.
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