Bannister Downs Dairy the creme de la creme
Bannister Downs Dairy was a standout at the 2026 Dairy Industry Association of Australia WA Dairy Awards, winning an impressive haul of accolades.
Welcome to Hancock Agriculture
Hancock Prospecting include a world-class agribusiness business, which has a long and proud history in agriculture, on both sides of executive chairman, Gina Rinehart’s, family.
Hancock Prospecting is committed to investing in local rural communities, developing and implementing innovative, industry-leading farming practices and driving export quality and growth.
Prior to mining exploration, the family owned and operated for decades a number of iconic cattle stations in WA including Ashburton Downs and Hamersley Station. Hancock’s Executive Chairman, Gina Rinehart, grew up on Hamersley station.
Hancock Prospecting has significantly grown the agricultural portfolio with strategic investment in pastoral stations and agribusinesses.
Latest news
Big medal haul for Bannister Downs
Bannister Downs Dairy has emerged as a standout at the 2026 Dairy Industry Association of Australia WA Dairy Awards.
Recycling solar panels ‘uneconomic’, and landfill could poison soil and water
Australia faces a glut of old solar panels polluting the environment by leaching toxic chemicals into landfill with no viable reuse or recycling solutions available, the government’s own Department of Climate Change and Energy has warned.
Rural Australia feeds this nation. Don’t let it run dry.
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Bannister Downs Dairy
Did you know Bannister Downs milk ranked highest for vitamin B12 and in the top two for calcium across the best milks available in WA, as part of a research study run by the Food Science Centre at Murdoch University? 🥛
Dairy Industry Association of Australia (WA) Dairy Awards 2026
We are so proud to announce that Bannister Downs Dairy has been recognised with 4 Gold Medals, 6 Silver Medals, and Champion Cream at the 2026 Dairy Industry Association of Australia (WA) Dairy Awards, the 5th time in 6 years our Fresh Cream has taken out this title! 🏆⭐️
Bush Summit 2025
Major Highlights
Veterans 4 Jobs
“Hancock Prospecting is built on good Australian values where loyalty and performance are rewarded. Our vision is to create pathways to business and employment opportunity for veterans and ex military across Hancock Prospecting, That the veterans feel valued and preferentially treated when they approach us and that we create a real sense of recognition of military service to the country for which they served which for the majority will be Australia.”
Hancock Prospecting Executive Chairperson,
Gina Rinehart AO
Future Australian Jobs
Hancock Prospecting is Australia’s most successful private company.
We have varied and exciting career opportunities across our mining and agricultural businesses, offering avenues for people new to the industry, supporting diversity in our workplaces.
We are investing in Australian jobs and look forward to you joining with us to continue to build prosperity for our great nation, and to set yourself up now and into the future.
No foe shall gather our harvest
We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
Verse of patriotic poem by Dame Mary Gilmore. Published in The Australian Women’s Weekly, June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-1945).
