[citation needed] The alluvial flats and black soil plains support rich stands of couch and buffel, which make good grazing feed.
[3] In August 2016, the station was sold by the Consolidated Pastoral Company to Chinese property developers Shanghai Zhongfu trading in Australia as Kimberley Agricultural Investment.
Consolidated Pastoral Company's chief executive officer Troy Setter said CPC negotiated a 10-year-leaseback of the majority of the station, where it will continue to run its cattle production operations on the property.
[4] The Sidney Kidman company Bovril Australian Estates purchased Carlton Hill in 1909 along with another two stations, one being Northcote and the other in Northern Territory called Victoria River Downs, for a total of £200,000.
Director Baz Luhrmann used House Roof Hill, which stands behind the horse arena, as a backdrop for the fictional Faraway Downs homestead in his film Australia in 2008.