In article > , Rhonda Anderson > wrote:
(Phred) wrote in
:
>> 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 exaggeration, I know... Most would have at
>> least an old grey Fergie. :-)
>
>Well, as I mentioned, we might call them graziers instead. But I bet
>they belong to the National Farmers' Federation :-)

There was some sort of brawl going on up here last week about things
like that, but I can't remember exactly who was being accused of not
supporting the NFF.

>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?

I suspect bugger all since that Pommie bloke [Lord Vesty] who once
controlled about 30,000 square miles of the place. (That's about 1%
of the whole bloody continent -- 100 of such *******s would have owned
the lot!) He was close to owning so much of us that it was almost
possible to walk right across the nation without setting foot off
Vesty's land.

ObFood: I enjoyed my lamb [loin] chops so much (both hot with vegies
and later cold with an avocado salad) that I bought another tray of
the things today. (I hope people don't start to think I'm a Kiwi. ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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