First shearing celebrated by new owners of the Nullarbor's mighty Rawlinna

The new owner of Australia's biggest sheep station is celebrating its first wool clip. Subscribe now for unlimited access to all our agricultural news The UK-owned Consolidated Pastoral Company formally took control of the giant Nullarbor station Rawlinna late last year. CPC, one of Australia's biggest cattle companies, surprised many last year with its big plunge into sheep After buying the MacLachlan family's Rawlinna , which famously comprises just over a million hectares, or 2,585,520 acres, Guy Hands' CPC also snapped up Nullarbor neighbour Madura Plains 711,638ha (1,758,496 acres). CPC owns and operates 12 station aggregations across Australia with two feedlots in Indonesia. Across more than six million hectares of land, CPC now has more than 400,000 head of cattle, more than 40,000 sheep and 50,000 goats. Rawlinna's sale signalled CPC's move into large-scale sheep and wool production. CPC's CEO Troy Setter has previously told ACM Agri his company had big plans for the ...