You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
—(bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-famous-texas-waggonerranch-for-sale/)<br />
“I admit that my Australian passport, PNG heritage and accent<br />
have been door openers for me, but hard work, long days and<br />
innovation got me the rest of the way,” said Uechtritz.<br />
Uechtritz traces his<br />
PNG lineage from his<br />
great-grandmother and<br />
famed botanist and writer<br />
grandfather Richard and wife<br />
Phebe Parkinson, and his<br />
great-aunt “Queen Emma”<br />
Coe (Forsyth), mixedblood<br />
American Samoan<br />
and German pioneers who<br />
brought agriculture in the<br />
form of cattle ranching as<br />
well as coconut and ocoa<br />
QUEEN EMMA<br />
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Forsayth<br />
asopa.typepad.com/files/parkinson-legacy-1.pdf<br />
plantations to New Guinea.<br />
Uechtritz is a third<br />
generation New Guinean, the<br />
eighth child of Alfred Max and<br />
Mary Lou Uechtritz, who had seven boys and four girls.<br />
Growing up in New Guinea and Australia and managing cattle<br />
stations and large labor forces early from about 17 years old taught<br />
Uechtritz how to negotiate early and often.<br />
Previously, in boarding schools across Australia, Uechtritz<br />
honed his negotiating skills in front of headmasters and<br />
disciplinary committees. He left school in the 10th grade. He then<br />
enrolled in an animal husbandry program at a junior college in the<br />
Outback, which was designed to prepare young people to run a<br />
cattle or sheep station.<br />
Photo by Seachelles Photography<br />
Uechtritz left the program a year early and returned to New<br />
Guinea, where he worked at a gas station near the gold mines in<br />
the Highlands. Then, he got a job breaking horses on a ranch.<br />
Before long, he had been promoted to assistant manager.<br />
“When the manager left, I got promoted again,” Uechtritz<br />
said. “I worked there several years and transformed part of the<br />
cattle ranch into a coconut, cocoa and oil palm plantation. It’s<br />
still highly successful and sells its cocoa exclusively to a French<br />
chocolate company.”<br />
On the cattle side, he managed about 4,000 head and<br />
implemented the first large-scale artificial Insemination (AI)<br />
program for PNG, breeding European Charolais semen over gray<br />
Branding Time<br />
LANDMAGAZINES.COM<br />
31
Change language