THE Queensland Government has named the successful tenderers for the former Longreach Pastoral College, with three producers from the local area making the purchases.
Contracts settled this month, with the biggest tender going Peter and Caroline Britton of Brighton Downs Station, near Winton, who purchased the land south of Landsborough Highway, including the campus for $7.6m.
Local tourism operator Richard Kinnon, from Outback Pioneers, purchased the land adjacent to the Thompson River for $1.2m – it has a water license and it likely to grow hay and other commercial crops.
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