It's the most exciting news in Adelaide since Annabel Crabb's and Christopher Pyne's celebrated show at this year's Fringe Festival.
On Friday chairman John Crosby, managing director Greg Campbell and the five other board members of S. Kidman & Co Ltd meet at the pastoral group's headquarters in the South Australian capital. 
Assuming the full set makes it along, among the gathered will be director Richard Bourne-Arton, a descendent of Sir Sidney Kidman himself, the legendary figure who founded the cattle empire back in 1899.
Two other directors who have married into the South Australian pastoral dynasty should also be there, Richard McFarlane and Mark Grimshaw.
On the board's agenda: the first-quarter results for the business that has a footprint of 100,000-odd square kilometres and a herd of about 185,000.
Also to be discussed, presumably tucked under "other business" on the meeting's agenda, the ongoing sale of almost 2 per cent of Australia - that is, all of the Kidman properties, excluding the highly sensitive station Anna Creek, which is near the Woomera weapons testing range.
Chinese group Shanghai Pengxin, with Australian Rural Capital as a minor partner, is willing to pay in the order of $350 million for it - if it can get the tick from the Foreign Investment Review Board.
With an election fast approaching, the Turnbull government needs the sale of an Ireland-sized chunk of Australia to a Chinese buyer about as much as a second awkward photo op of the PM with his treasurer.
And we are yet to speak to anyone following the process who thinks an Australian outfit, including one led by billionaire Lindsay Fox, would get anywhere near that price.
What's a fabulously wealthy pastoral dynasty to do?
About 98 per cent of S. Kidman & Co is still owned by descendants of Sir Sidney. The rest is held by station managers and the like.
As is the way with families and money, the sale has precipitated a bitter fight.
A minority of shareholding family members are opposed. On Friday their representatives on the board may well express a sense of vindication as federal politics threatens to undermine the Chinese group's leading bid.
Meanwhile, the majority who encouraged the sale have to decide, guided by their highly professional advisers at EY, whether to muddle on through, most likely to the other side of the election, or call the whole thing off - to be continued when Canberra settles down.
So, plenty for the board to discuss. Hope they have a drinks trolley.