Host: Koordarrie Station Written by Taylor Day – Governess, Koordarrie Station. If you asked me six months ago what I’d be doing and where I’d be, I wouldn’t have thought I’d be where I am today. How clichéd really but it couldn’t be any truer. I completed year 12 last year and here I was […]
Host: Koordarrie Station Written by Kristie de Pledge – Owner, Koordarrie Station. Sweat dripping down your back, your shirt sticks and its only 8 o’clock in the morning. Welcome to summer in the Pilbara! Every station has its own rhythm and traditions over summer, some folk escape to the south or the beach for a period […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Last week I spent a day with a group of Western Australian producers and industry representatives who were visiting some feedlots in Indonesia. Inevitably […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Can our Asian customers pay more for beef if the price suddenly goes up? Short answer: Absolutely. The long answer is a mixture of […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Why have Indonesian government policies been so unsuccessful at influencing their national beef industry? Because it is not really a beef industry. The Indonesian […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. I took this photo about a year ago near a tiny fishing village in southern Sumatera. I kept returning to it because there was […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. The position of Animal Welfare Officer (AWO) is the single most important element to the successful operation of ESCAS (Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System). […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. The Industry Collaborative Animal Welfare Program is quite a mouthful so it is usually described by its acronym ICWP. It refers to a Livestock […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. The production of beef cattle integrated with oil palm plantations is arguably more efficient than any other production model available today with the exception […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. Well we have had another run in with the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) today. This time it was my oldest boy – Tom. Yesterday the boys headed home with Mrs Savvy B for a bit of a sleep over. Things were so peaceful […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. I tell you, nothing is simple when you live at Bumtruck Nowhere. Nothing I tell you. Especially trying to get home once your fabulous holiday is over (If you need a little catch up on our holiday adventures you can start HERE to find […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. Have you ever wondered how we get our power when we live hundreds of kilometres from town? Or did you just think the power lines came all the way out here? You probably did, right? Well they don’t. No – not even the power […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. So catching up with your neighbours, when you live in the middle of nowhere goes something like this . . . Mrs Savvy B and Co have come over to visit this weekend. I have been having withdrawals from her, after our fabulous holiday […]
Host: Miss Chardy Written by Danielle Doyle – Manager, Mittiebah Station. Well it is no wonder I am starting to turn into captain psycho cranky pants. It is nearly a month since we returned to the station from holidays and I haven’t been anywhere since. Unless you count a trip out into the paddock to meet […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. All the things I’ve been reading over the past year about ‘investing in agriculture’ began to rub off on me. I’m a great believer in if you want something to change, you have to get involved: Be the Change you want to […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Last New Year’s, in between visiting my family for Christmas and needing to be in Brisbane for business meetings at the beginning of January, I was able to do a flying visit to a couple of cattle stations in the NT. I […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Last year I mentioned a bit about our moves into becoming milk providers. This year, quotas are still down, we don’t have as many feeders to sell as we would like and the feedlot still looks empty compared to how it was […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. I had really high hopes of my blogs for Central Station this year. I had my topics laid out for what I was going to tell you about. I wanted to be informative and entertaining and give a contrast to the Australian side […]
Host: White Kangaroo Station Written by Sarah Streeter – Manager, White Kangaroo Station. It may come to a surprise to some that we are using quite advanced genetic diagnostic and profiling technology in our stud cattle herd. Genetic technologies have a number of applications to our herd, most which can be easily related to commonly-used […]
Host: White Kangaroo Station Written by Sarah Streeter – Manager, White Kangaroo Station. Multi tasking . . . they say women are better than men. Mothers tend to have a supernatural skill to attend to several tasks as if they were working from a body with more than two sides of a brain and certainly […]
