End of an Era

Yambah Station, Alice Springs has recently changed hands with Aaron Gorey selling the property that has been in his family over 3 generations since the 1940’s and he has run himself since 1984.

It has been purchased by the Muenster Family from NSW. While it was a very tough decision to sell Yambah, the time was right. Aaron certainly has the station and cattle looking immaculately for Dan Muenster and his young family to take over and build their own legacy on this magnificent property.

I was truly fortunate indeed to have been able to go out to Yambah and do the final ‘bore run’ with Aaron, Anthony Glynn and Dan. It was incredible on many levels. The cows were in superb condition for winter and the quality Aaron has managed to build over the years would see these Shorthorn cows be equal to any herd of Shorthorns in the world. The country, like the cattle, also looked healthy and well grassed, as Aaron has always tended to understock than overstock due to the fickle rainfall of the sweet red country.

Selling bulls to Aaron has been our pleasure. For the first several years, Aaron would come down to The Grove and we would go through the bulls with Bob Gahan, Godfrey, Soph and myself and it was all just extremely easy. After a while Aaron would just tell us how many bulls he wanted for that year and would ring me once they had arrived in the North. The fact that Aaron entrusted us at The Grove to manage such a large capital expense highlights the trust and friendship we have built up over a long period of time.

Yampah’s sale has re written values for the Alice Springs area and after two days of driving around the station - it isn’t hard to see why! The new house yards built by Jamie and Kerryl Evans are the finishing touch to the incredible infrastructure and water facilities set up over the entire property. In recent times, Aaron has also implemented some of his Rangeveiw, Glenmorgan learnings by adding some silk sorghum to his buffel seed as he blade ploughed tracts of country. The result is unbelievable for that country, and the kilograms put on by the cattle running in those areas is something that can only be limited to repeat by season and dollars.

Aaron and family have certainly been handed more hurdles than most in life, and we are genuinely happy for him that he is very comfortable with his decision to sell and we sincerely hope the road ahead is simpler, enjoyable and with more time to spend with family.

We wish you the very best of luck and enjoyment of life in the future mate, and we very much appreciate your loyalty but most of all we thank you for your friendship over the last few decades.