Veteran beef cattle breeders Ian and Louise Johnson have acquired a slice of South Australian farming history after emerging as the buyers of the Crower and Fellwood grazing aggregation south-west of Lucindale.

The 1870-hectare beef, prime lamb and wool powerhouse, about 350 kilometres south-east of Adelaide on the Limestone Coast, includes the stunning heritage-listed Crower homestead built in 1865 for the pastoralist brothers, John, William and Malcolm Macinnes. It was named after Crower Station, which the brothers acquired in the late 1850s alongside Baker’s Range Station.