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Suplejack Station cattle deal sends Tanami Desert stock 3,000km to new home near Dubbo
It has been a busy week for one of Australia’s most remote cattle stations.
Key points:
- Cattle from the Tanami Desert have been trucked more than 3,000km to a new home near Dubbo, NSW
- It was the first time Suplejack Station sold cattle online
- It took 18 hours to truck cattle down the Tanami Road
Suplejack Station in the Tanami Desert region of the Northern Territory trucked 18 decks of female cattle to a buyer near Dubbo in New South Wales — in a deal worth nearly $400,000.
This was not a normal sale for Suplejack, which usually targeed the live export trade out of Darwin.
But a decision to sell 475 head via the online platform AuctionsPlus, exposed the desert cattle to eastern states buyers looking to restock.
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