Hampered for 90 years by needing to travel interstate for new genetics, 31 bulls were loaded into Bristol freighter planes from studs in Victoria, NSW, and Queensland, bound for the Barkly Tablelands.
In 1953, a remote Northern Territory cattle station was treated to a strange sight — a load of bulls walking out the nose of two Bristol freighter airplanes.
Despite the NT's first pastoral leases being granted in 1863, for the next 90 years cattle producers had to travel interstate if they wanted new genetics. Retired cattlemen Ian McBean, now in his 90s, was a young man who had worked in the NT for a couple of years when he attended the Brunette Downs bull sale.
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