Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail’ At ‘Mystery Park’, measuring the volume of pasture we have produced during the wet season allows us to evaluate the number of stock we can safely run through until we anticipate the next wet season beginning. […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. At ‘Mystery Park’, our weaning date depends on body condition score of the lactating cows, which is affected by the available nutrition and the cost of supplementing. Leave the calves on too long and the cow loses too much condition to re-conceive next year. Wean […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. At ‘Mystery Park’, the primary focus of our business is growing grass – producing the best possible pastures we can using the elements of rain, sunshine, and soil. Around ten years ago we began time-controlled rotational grazing, reaping the rewards of increasing our carrying capacity, […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. The ‘Mystery Park’ crew are excited to be hosting Central Station once again. My name is Tess Camm, and I am a fifth generation grazier, uni student, eldest of six children, horse fanatic, and possibly the most passionate person about the future of the beef industry, […]
Host: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. One thing that has taken me a long time to get past is a fear of driving on dirt roads. I used to hate and I mean really hate driving on dirt roads to the point of pulling up half way sitting […]
Host: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. One very common topic when talking with people unfamiliar with outback living is having children in the middle of no where. Common comments are ‘but it’s not fair on the children’, ‘they can’t go to school’, ‘they will be disadvantaged with home […]
Host: Manners Creek Station Written by Jodie Grant – Manager, Manners Creek Station. When people ask me “Don’t you get bored living all the way out there in the middle of no where?” my response is that I would love some days to be boring! There is always something to do, something happening, and barely time […]
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 […]
