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All change at Orange Creek

Transport has always been integral to primary production, whether it’s bulk grain, wool or livestock. From the economic commonsense of property owners buying trucks to haul their own produce, it’s a short step to them expanding into stand-alone transport operations.

Orange Creek Station tracks its livestock heritage
back to legendary days – when it was part of a vast pastoral empire created over 100 years ago by cattle king Sid Kidman.

The 2300 square kilometre Orange Creek Block was one part of Kidman holdings that ended up amounting to fully 3% of Australia – part of a grand plan to ensure that he had enough land to drought-proof a huge herd, simply by shifting his cattle north or south along Australia’s great inland river systems… always finding water.

True to its heritage, Orange Creek – about 100 kilometres from Alice Springs – still proudly runs Poll Hereford cattle….in the face of a widespread trend towards Brahman cattle across Northern Australia.

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