Description. Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres) which is slightly larger than Israel.
1st. Oldfield and Costello families: 7.2 million hectares
In early 2022, their joint venture Crown Point Pastoral Company purchased 3.26 million hectares from Gina Rinehart's portfolio. This purchase bumped up their landholding to 7.2 million hectares, making them Australia's official largest landowners.
The Williams family, of Williams Cattle Company in South Australia, have the title of owning Australia's biggest farming aggregation — the 2.37 million-hectare Anna Creek and The Peake Stations, covering an area bigger than Slovenia.
Anna Creek is not only Australia's biggest cattle station; it's the largest in the world. The station covers a total of around 24,000 square kilometers.
Gina Rinehart. Gina Rinehart is the richest farmer in Australia, with an estimated net worth of $36.28 billion. Rinehart inherited a stake in her father's mining company, Hancock Prospecting, and has since expanded the company's operations into the agriculture industry.
The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia.
China topped the leasehold table with 8.4 million ha, a very small increase on 2019. China has also pulled ahead when aggregating total freehold and leasehold ownership interests, remaining on the same 2.4 percent of total foreign-held land that it had in 2019.
The sale of the 438,000-hectare Miranda Downs station in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria for more than $180 million to Financial Review Rich Listers Peter and Jane Hughes has set a record for a single pastoral holding in Australia.
The United States of America-based Cargill Inc is the leading agricultural products company in the world (by revenue). The company reported revenues of $114,600 million for the fiscal year ended June 2021 (FY2021).
Australia's oldest continuous family business is Summerville farm in Tasmania, 26km north of Hobart on the Jordan River.
The mining magnate Gina Rinehart is Australia's biggest landholder, controlling more than 9.2m hectares, or 1.2% of the entire landmass of the country, according to data compiled by Guardian Australia.
Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres) which is slightly larger than Israel.
Atlassian's Scott Farquhar now owns the most expensive house in Australia and therefore the richest house as well.
According to a government report on foreign ownership of agricultural land, Chinese investors are in fact one of the largest foreign entities with an interest (leasehold and freehold) in Australian farmland.
The most advantaged Australians are overwhelmingly living by the water in Sydney, Perth, and Darwin. The most advantaged Australians are overwhelmingly living by the water in Sydney, Perth, and Darwin.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights and interests in land are formally recognised over around 50 per cent of Australia's land mass. Connection to land is of central importance to First Nations Australians.
There's more to Moree than you know. We go back 25 years to look at this rural town and its local characters.
Victoria: a leading manufacturing and services hub
The state's GSP is significant, contributing to Australia's overall GDP.
Queensland is one of the most popular states for farm work in Australia, with a variety of jobs available throughout the year. Fruit and vegetable picking, as well as jobs in the sugar cane industry, are common in the region.
Our Company
Established in 1824, the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is Australia's largest integrated cattle and beef producer, and is the oldest continuously operating company in Australia.
According to Stats of 2021, India Had the Highest Cattle Population of 305.5 Million (USDA) India has an estimated 305,500,000 cattle, coming to a total of 0.22 cows per person living in India.
Top Crop Producers
Harris Family Rowena NSW 50 000 Ha wheat, 8000 Ha cotton, 5000 maize, 7000 Ha summer crops. Twyanm Agricultural Group Sydney NSW 45 000 Ha wheat, 25 000 Ha cotton, 5000 Ha pulses, 3000 Ha canola, 4000 Ha rice.