Mr Harvey said he believed the cattle market had stabilised. Prices paid for cattle recently softened following two years of record prices in Australia. ( ABC Rural: Brooke Neindorf) The future of cattle There is plenty of wide open space at Clifton Hills. "You could truck two feeder steers in their place. "I really think it has moved quite a bit, you think the price of everything goes up, but I think the freighting of really heavy cattle - $600 or $700 bullocks - for every one of those you truck out, for us that is roughly $130 per head to get them to an abattoir," Mr Harvey said. Mr Harvey said the cost of transporting cattle had increased significantly in recent years. If they are going east, they spell at Quilpie."
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"They get spelled, the truck driver gets a sleep and the cattle are off the truck for at least 12 hours. The cattle, which are certified organic, are rested at a set of yards at Lyndhurst. "We send 90 per cent of our cattle south, we have a good relationship with Teys at Naracoorte and send killable cattle to them, and also sell feeder steers ," Mr Harvey said. Sitting at the homestead's kitchen table, custom built to seat 20, Mr Harvey said if you drove east for long enough, you would eventually arrive at Brisbane.īut the majority of the cattle that come off Clifton Hills were trucked south. ( ABC Rural: Brooke Neindorf) Life and logistics at Clifton Hills StationĬlifton Hills, includes airstrips, more than 20 sets of steel cattle yards, six flowing bores and a homestead on the Birdsville Track, less than 200 kilometres south of Birdsville. With the station so remote, many visitors drop in by plane. New foreign investment rules mean that Clifton Hills Station could not be advertised on foreign markets until 30 days after it was first advertised in Australia, but Mr Harvey did not believe the new rules would influence the sale. 'I couldn't tell you … there are widely varying opinions about that a bit, but cattle stations have sold strongly just in the past six months, there has been a tick up of valuations as a result of high cattle prices over the last two years." While speculation about the value of Clifton Hills varies from $20 million to $50 million, Mr Harvey would not be drawn on who had inspected the property, or what the highest bidder might be prepared to pay.
"We've had a significant number of inspections," Mr Harvey said. The owners, a partnership of four families of roughly equal share, have offered the property on a walk-in, walk-out basis including up to 18,000 cattle currently on the station. The agents selling it have described the property, which includes four pastoral leases, as the "Jewel of the Channel Country". Subscribe for the national headlines of the day. ( ABC Rural: Brooke Neindorf) Up for saleĮstablished in 1876, Clifton Hills Station is now for public sale for the first time in more than 100 years. "We started branding at the end of February, and it's still going ," Mr Harvey said.Ĭlifton Hills Station managing partner David Harvey says it is the first time the station has been publicly available for more than 100 years. Mr Harvey said the "massive property" meant using aircraft - either fixed wing airplanes or helicopters - when mustering cattle, mostly all of English breeds.ĭespite up to 12 people working at Clifton Hills during mustering, cattle work is time consuming. Mr Harvey estimated up to 1,500 square kilometres of Clifton Hills recently went under water, when flood waters from central Queensland flowed toward Lake Eyre, which at 15 metres below sea level was considered the lowest point in Australia. "It splits just before our boundary and gives us two significant delta areas that practically merge together and travel in a single channel right through our boundary, through Cowarie and into Lake Eyre." "In terms of fattening cattle, the floodwaters are a key thing to make that happen," Mr Harvey said.
Mr Harvey said with low rainfall of about 125 millimetres a year - the property relied on the Cooper Creek, Diamantina River and encompassed a large swamp known as Goyder Lagoon.
"It's much hotter here than at Alice Springs, if you look at the BOM website and look at the infrared map of Australia every day, this is the hottest spot, around this central area." "We are right next to the Simpson Desert, I'd say average December, January, February would be 50 degrees most days. "Yeah it's pretty hot," managing partner David Harvey said. David Harvey from Clifton Hills Station talks about the property being up for sale (Katherine Sullivan)
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