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 […]
Host: Boreelum Station Written by Adam Coffey – Station Owner/Manager One thing that we often think about and discuss given our experiences are the difficulties facing young people trying to gain a foothold in Australian Agriculture. The huge capital costs associated with land ownership and/or inventory required to operate a primary production enterprise are too large […]
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, […]
