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Rhonda Anderson[_1_]

(Phred) wrote in
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> In article >, Rhonda
> Anderson > wrote:

>>
>>The really large livestock properties are often called stations rather
>>than farms, and those who run sheep and cattle might get called
>>graziers, but mostly they're just all farmers :-)
>
> That might be true down in your civilised part of Oz, but up here
> you'd be lucky to even find a tractor on some of the cattle stations!
>
> (Okay, okay; a bit of an exageration, I know... Most would have at
> least an old grey Fergie. :-)
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>

Well, as I mentioned, we might call them graziers instead. But I bet
they belong to the National Farmers' Federation :-)

Thinking about it, I think a few of them would probably be called
"corporations" now. Are many of the really huge stations still privately
owned?

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904