Host: Boreelum Station Written by Adam Coffey – Station Owner/Manager So, moving on from our last post where Jac introduced us and gave you a brief background, I thought I’d fill you in on our new home “Boreelum” and what we’ve done with the place since we purchased it almost two years ago. We often call […]
Host: Boreelum Station Written by Jacynta Coffey – Station Owner/Manager Hi everyone! This week we will be taking to you to our little part of the world on Queensland’s central coast. Today, a look at our story so far – my name is Jacynta (Jac) and my husband Adam and I are first generation cattle producers. […]
Host: Zoe Hayes Location: North West Queensland Red dog? Nah mate, dead dog! Driving along a dirt road past rural properties in Blackall QLD it was a sight & stench for sore eyes, but one I took as a rare photographic opportunity. Wild dogs strung up swinging with the breeze hanging from farmer’s trees. Poetic or […]
Host: Zoe Hayes Location: North West Queensland Now, I was always told when I first went to work on a cattle station for the first time with a boyfriend that “if you can work in a set of cattle yards together and survive, well, you’ll survive anything”! Although I thought that to be very true because […]
Host: Zoe Hayes Location: North West Queensland Well I suppose Mother Nature heard our prayers when we poured our hearts out to her asking to wet the dusty ground AND ease up on the hot grueling days we were working in; she pulled through! As I sit in my room on day ten of the ‘wet […]
Host: Zoe Hayes Location: North West Queensland If only it were that simple…. Photo credit: Jacqueline Curley, Gipsy Plains Brahmans The drought has been beyond cruel in Queensland, and while the stock are suffering, our farmers are too. The livelyhood they depend on gambles on Mother Nature & at this stage she isn’t playing game. The […]
Host: Zoe Hayes Location: North West Queensland Hi my name is Zoe Hayes, I’m hoping that my story may inspire and/or empower someone reading this today. My story begins back in 1994 when I was born but let’s skip a fair few paces forward to September 2012 where my life was hugely impacted by my mums […]
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Indigenous Traineeship Programme – Livestock Earn and learn straight out of school Regional locations in NSW, Queensland or the Northern Territory Ruralco Holdings Limited is Australia’s fastest growing agribusiness. With a national footprint of 48 individual business units and 500 outlets specialising in providing rural customers with products and services in rural merchandise, fertiliser, wool, […]
Written by “Enviro Em”, Environmental Officer & proud former station kid. A lot of the time I am asked “How can you be an enviro if you grew up on a farm?” This used to annoy me so much! But, now I see it as an opportunity to brag – farmers, pastoralists, and landholders […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin, Owner. Find part one here. Find part two here. ‘Town life’ was kept busy with the launch of our branded beef product into the Pilbara! A little step into the big dream. Jude Taylor a family friend and talented artist painted our new Outback Beef Logo, which is […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin, Owner. Find part one here. Over a few days before hand near on 300 people arrived from all across the country! Many flocked to the Iron Clad Hotel and then trickled their way to Yarrie to pitch camp for a dawn wedding in a very special little George […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin, Owner. This blog continues on from Annabelle’s last post in 2017, which you can read by clicking this link. Mother nature certainly dealt us a challenge, however we conquered the muster in late August. Amongst that we also managed to build a set of cattle yards and complete […]
Host: Direct Drilling Written by Jill Williams – Co-Founder & Operations Manager, Direct Drilling Always best to start with introductions of who’s who. Direct Drilling was founded by my partner Andrew McWaters and myself, as one of the twists and turns of live’s journey. Andrew (aka) Andy, and myself, retired for all of 9 weeks, […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink A small compilation of photos I have taken around Callanna Station of various things. How about a cliché to start your day? Wrangler butts drive me nuts?! Good morning! Starting the motor to pump water for cattle. Checking in with my 2 poddies Browny & Bella. They are […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink Note, these photos have been taken at different times of the year on different places. Sunrise mustering at Mulka Station after storms. Drone shot of mustering at Callanna Station. (Photo by Pandy Morphett from Pandy Films.) Smoko Mustering at Callanna. (Photo by Pandy Morphett from Pandy Films.) Sorting out the […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink I’ve only been contract mustering and yard building (in the off seasons) for the last 3 years, coming into my 4th. Through those years, at least 95% of the time it’s just been me and a bunch of blokes. Coming into my first season I was nervous, this […]
Host: Callanna Station Written by Lucy Goldspink I grew up on a sheep and cropping farm in Central West NSW. As long as I can remember I grew up working side by side with parents and my brothers. There are memories of Dad and I feeding ewes the very last of the lupins for that […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh I am going to take this opportunity to bother you all about the serious nature of skin cancer. I am a fair skinned, freckle faced, red headed individual who wears jeans, long sleeves, bandanas and sunscreen quite religiously. I have always been warned to have skin checks to […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh As a small business owner, we employ between 8 to 12 people at one time depending on our work requirements and commitments. Personally, I find employment is a very time consuming task. Between creating an advertisement, answering questions via facebook, email and phone, interviewing applicants, performing reference checks […]
Host: Farrcombe Contracting Written by Raine Pugh Another year for us done and dusted. Much like everyone else’s it involved lots of hard work and good fun. Here is a glimpse of our contract mustering lifestyle last year: It all started with our yearly recruitment process, locating a combination of enthusiastic men and women ready […]
