Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. Every year the Ministry of Agriculture holds an Agriculture Show, and up until 2017 a separate one was held on each island, Upolu and Savaii. Each technical division of the Ministry (Fisheries, Livestock, Crops and Quarantine) prepare displays for the public to view in […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. This is part 2 of a two part series. Find part 1 here. Our stock truck and the portable yards were standing by at the cattle station, 2 hours away. After much back and forth with our boss, he and the consultants agreed that […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. There’s one night in 2015 that is a night which has been forever etched in my mind. It was the night our brand-spanking new Droughtmaster cattle and Dorper sheep arrived from Australia, however, things did not go completely according to plan. This is not […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. The Animal Production & Health Division (APHD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) office at Vaea, near the centre of Upolu Island. 56,000. According the Samoa Bureau of Statistics Agriculture Survey, that was the total number of cattle in all of Samoa […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. I thought I could do a short bio on myself, so you know where I am coming from in my stories and why I write the way I do. My name is Renee Jayne Avea-Maloamata Orange, people call me Renee, Nay or Ray. My […]
Written by Lindsey Perry This is the fifth and final installment in a series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here, part two here part three here, and part four here. I was sleepy and admittedly a little hungover, but the rhythmic footfalls of my chestnut, Madrinador (meaning old wise […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part four in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here, part two here and part three here. This past week I’ve talked a lot about the great experiences I had in Brazil, but that’s not to say that the country […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part three in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here and part two here. While out on the property, we had no access to phone reception or internet. I am guilty of being on my phone way more than I […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part two in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here. Our alarms were set for sparrow’s fart – or, given that we were now in the Pantanal, curicaca’s fart. The curicacas were crowing long before the sun and they […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part one in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. Vivid. It was the only word we could find to truly describe how Brazil felt to us. The culture, the food, the animals, the music, the traffic. Everything in Brazil just seemed so much “more”. […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part 5 in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here, part two here, part three here and part four here. While the glamour and romance seem, for a newbie, to be wrapped up in […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part four in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here, part two here and part three here. Let me state very clearly here that I do not consider myself a cowgirl. I can ride, can’t […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part three in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here and part two here. As I write this, spring and branding seems a far cry away. Our winters are usually cold, snowy […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part two in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here. Well, in all reality, life here on the Rez ranch (Native American Reservation) really isn’t that different than life on any other […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant Let me introduce myself and our family. My name is Ruth Wold, my husband, Dusty, is employed by the Mescalero Apache Tribe to run their cattle operation on their Reservation in Central New Mexico, USA. We have four boys, Rafe, Cal, Cord, and Grant. […]
Host: Undoolya Station Written by Nikita Hayes Living so close to Alice Springs we have a really big problem with wild dogs. We are roughly 20 minutes from the border of town and we surround the whole east side. Like all stations and farms, we all have pests, whether it be dogs, cats, foxes, horses […]
Host: Undoolya Station Written by Nikita Hayes The Herd Of Hope is a team of 6 stock men and women who visited Sydney on horseback with a herd of Australian Poll Hereford cattle in March this year. Each of the riders has been directly connected to a life-changing organ transplant and the cattle drive was to promote organ […]
Host: Undoolya Station Written by Nikita Hayes My name is Nikita Hayes, I’m 22 years old. I grew up on my families cattle Station called Undoolya, we are located east of Alice springs in the NT. We run 5,000 head of Poll Hereford cattle on 144,400 hectares. The owners of the station are Jim and Gail Hayes, […]
Host: Boreelum Station Written by Adam Coffey – Station Owner/Manager Now you might be wondering if we actually run any cattle at all here at Boreelum?!! Well, yes we do. We currently have a mixed enterprise, running agistment cattle, trade cattle and our own breeders. Ultimately we’d like to just have our own breeding herd with […]
Host: Boreelum Station Written by Adam Coffey – Station Owner/Manager We’ve been on Boreelum for almost 2 years now and it is becoming increasingly apparent, like any other redevelopment scenario, that there are plenty of ways to spend the almighty dollar. At this stage of the game we’re really trying to focus in on the 80/20’s […]
