The Jumbuck Pastoral Company is being divided after 135 years
One of Australia’s oldest and most powerful farming families, and the nation’s third-largest landowner, are splitting up their huge portfolio of livestock stations in the biggest shake-up of their Jumbuck Pastoral empire in 135 years. The 5.2 million hectare empire is bigger than the Netherlands. Penelope Arthur, National Agricultural Editor of The Land newspapers, talks to Michael McLaren about the complex issue of succession in farming families and the property boom in the rural sector.
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