[1] She is also a cancer survivor, wife, mother of two sons, pilot, cook, Bull catcher and cattle musterer, bulldozer driver and accomplished horsewoman.
She and husband Franz acquired the property in March 2001 from her mother after a legal battle documented on the ABC's Australian Story 2001.
[6] Bullo River was put on the market for the first time in 2011, amidst the fallout from Indonesian live cattle export bans.
Ranacher received an insurance payout from the crash of the Cessna and she said that this enabled them to hang on, though tenuously, until later in the year when with a second bit of luck they were able to sell floodplain cattle for a good price.
[2] A review of Bullo: The Next Generation emphasizes Ranacher's business wisdom and entrepreneurial spirit; along with her appreciation of nature and the complexities of outback life in Australia.