Station (agriculture)

A sheep station in New South Wales, Australia.

Station is the term for a big agricultural property (owned land) that is used for raising livestock.^[1] The word is used in Australian and New Zealand English. The owner of a station is called a grazier. They are also sometimes called pastoralists.^[2] Its workers are called stockmen. The stations may be called sheep stations or cattle stations, depending on what type of animal it raises.

Station (agriculture) Media

A cattle station in northern New South Wales
Border Collie, left, and a collie cross working sheep in Queensland
Noonkanbah woolshed, now a local community centre in Western Australia
Cattle and horses in stockyards at Victoria River Downs Station circa 1985
Aerial views of Oulnina Park Station at Manna Hill, South Australia.
Anna Creek main homestead
Cattle Creek outstation of Wave Hill, NT, 1962

Related pages

Ranch

References

↑ "Chisholm, Alec H.". The Australian Encyclopaedia 8. (1963). Sydney: Halstead Press. 275.
↑ Taylor, Peter (1988), Station life in Australia : pioneers and pastoralists, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-0-04-332135-5

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[1] "Chisholm, Alec H.". The Australian Encyclopaedia 8. (1963). Sydney: Halstead Press. 275.

[2] Taylor, Peter (1988), Station life in Australia : pioneers and pastoralists, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-0-04-332135-5

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