Host: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. Living where we do we don’t see rain much at all . . . in fact I think my two and a half year old daughter has seen rain (proper rain) perhaps three times in her life. She really doesn’t know what […]
Host: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. Every girl dreams of their wedding day, the day they get to be a princess and marry their very own prince charming. Yes I was one of those girls that had my fairy tale wedding planned and then well I met Dusty […]
Host: Carlton Hill Written by Alice – Governess, Carlton Hills Station. It’s early in the morning, 6am, I’ve got poddies to feed and school work to prepare for Beatrix and Archie before picking them up at 8am for their school day. I’m currently feeding six poddies which have come in from Stockcamp, they are fed a […]
Host: Carlton Hill Written by Raqual – Station Cook, Carlton Hills Station. Its 4am and my alarm is screeching at me to get up . . . It’s a good thing I love these early mornings . . . No one else is around . . . It’s just me and the cane toads . […]
Host: Carlton Hill Written by Raqual – Station Cook, Carlton Hills Station. Its 1996 . . . I’m fresh out of the RAAF after serving as a Fire fighter . . . I was looking for something to do with my new found freedom and I wasn’t really qualified to do much. Then I saw an […]
Host: Carlton Hill Station Written by Clinton McCarthy – Overseer, Carlton Hills Station. Well the 2014 season at Carlton Hill is upon us once again, with a lot sweat and some small tears there has been some great opportunities for our staff! With the return of one of our past Jackaroos as the new Head […]
Host: Carlton Hill Station Written by Stuart McKechnie – Manager, Carlton Hills Station. Carlton Hill Station encompasses three separate pastoral leases; Carlton Hill, Ivanhoe, and Spirit Hill. Managed as one large property, 475,745 hectares in total, located in the East Kimberley region of WA bordering the NT. With a 900mm average annual rainfall, Carlton Hill can […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Trisha Cowley – Beef Cattle Extension Office and Whitney Dollemore – Beef Research Officer, both DPIF. Snap! On goes a glove. Squirt! On goes some lubricant. The ultrasound machine is humming and it is time for a fertility check-up! But we are not in the maternity ward, we are […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Helen McMillan – Pastoral Production Officer – DPIF. Hi! I’m Helen McMillan and I’ve been with the Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries in Tennant Creek for almost 12 months now. Originally I’m from Deniliquin (southern NSW), but after completing a degree in Rural Science I really wanted to […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Officer, DPIF. I am regularly told that I have the best job in Australia. I get to travel to a number of cattle stations right across the NT, looking at pasture health on trial sites and sharing my passion for the importance of good […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Trisha Cowley – Beef Cattle Extension Office, DPIF. I can still vividly remember being told about the ringer who was horned by a scrub bull which gave him a “second bum hole”, or so the storyteller said. Horns on cattle are definitely dangerous, particularly with the increasing proportion of […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Trudi Oxley – Regional Manager, Katherine Pastoral Production. This week the Katherine Pastoral Production crew from the NT Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPIF) will give a snapshot of some of the many and varied activities we undertake to deliver research and extension. This year we also have a […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. Previous to this project, if someone had told me that we could transform scaled land with a close resemblance to concrete to knee high vegetation in just a few months, I would have told them they were dreaming! However, that […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. How do we make our industry more sustainable? One way is certainly by trying new ways of doing things and talking to each other about it so we can learn from each other’s successes and failures. In my work as […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. Our pastoralists deserve praise for how well they care for the land across most of Australia on behalf of the rest of us. All the station people I know have a deep love of the land and indeed many go […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. About everyone I know, whether they grew up in the city or the bush, in Australia or oversees, has a love of the land, the bush, and what Mother Nature has to offer. Everyone has that part of them that […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. It is amazing how an experience can give you a new perspective on life. For me, the early arrival of Trent gave me new appreciation for humanity. In the months after Trent’s birth, we received an overwhelming bout of support […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. After two years with Rangelands NRM in a job where you create your own work, I had created myself a mountain! Not only had to finalise a series of projects before the end of June (because it was the end […]
Host: Mel McDonald – Rangeland NRM Written by Mel McDonald – Kimberley Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. How true is the saying that as one door shuts another opens? I have been lucky enough in life that whenever things haven’t quite worked out as I had hoped, I have always been able to look forward to something […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by Karen O’Brien – Manager, Liveringa Station. The family. Visitors often come during the dry and stay for a few days/weeks and tell us how lucky we are to be living this life. But I often think that they fail to remember that they are on holidays . . . and […]
