Host: BMC Consulting Written by – Blythe Calnan, Consultant, BMC Consulting. Thumbs up Australia! Well Friday has arrived quicker than I expected, so welcome to my last blog for Central Station. Today I shall share with you the most important thing I have learnt in my work in the Middle East. Ironically, my work is […]
Host: BMC Consulting Written by – Blythe Calnan, Consultant, BMC Consulting. The Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) can be confusing. It is a point of much discussion, and I find that even living, breathing, and working ESCAS for the last two years I can still end up in complex discussions on the finer points. […]
Host: BMC Consulting Written by – Blythe Calnan, Consultant, BMC Consulting. In the past few years I have had many conversations about live export with it’s supporters, those in opposition to it, and those in between. Many people question the culture of the people I work with, wondering why these people think being cruel to […]
Host: BMC Consulting Written by – Blythe Calnan, Consultant, BMC Consulting. Well hello all, I’m not a cattle station, farm, feedlot or anything grand. My business, BMC Consulting, consists of plain old, lil old me, Blythe Calnan. I’ve been invited to be involved in Central Station as my job sees me working in the Middle […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. What will happen when it rains? Who knows how far away we are from drought breaking rain? What will be left of our lifetime’s hard work? A multimillion dollar question. When it rains, dams will fill, creeks, rivers, and water courses will flow again. It […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. In recent years we have also had to do battle with our enemy, the wild dog. In years gone by when Southampton used to run around 10,000 head of sheep we had no wild dog problems due I believe to the vigilance of our neighbours […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Every now and then we meet people who think that we are driven by our dollar line and don’t care for our livestock. We feel that they are so far removed from reality it isn’t even slightly amusing. Money does help but that isn’t why […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Whilst many things are the same day in day out, every day is different with the challenges it brings. Sometimes these can be a real curve ball and you have to think on the run and make split second calls on what will happen. There […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. To further explain our lives I will just elaborate a little about our background . . . My husband and I lived and worked about four hours away from Southampton until the end of 2004, coming home to do all the cattle work when required. […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Acacia aneura or Mulga is part of the wattle family and grows rather well in our country. This tree is a life saver in dry times such as we are having and is known as a living haystack. Cattle do well on mulga as long […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. February 2012 was the last water making or grass growing rain that we have received. Yes, there have been some falls of rain since then but none of them did much good, just enough to make a nice green pick grow and bring in a […]
Host: Southampton Written by – Kylie Savidge, Owner, Southampton Station. Morning Central Station! Our crew on Southampton consists of myself, my husband when he is home, my parents, our children, and “our” backpackers. I am Kylie; I was born and raised on Southampton apart from my years away at school. This is all I have […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. To finish off the week with Blina, I would like to tell you a little about our crew. Dan McCreedy – Headstockman. Dan McCreedy – Originally from Hokianga, NZ, Dan has been the headstockman at Blina for the past two years. He has one […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Ann Hallen, Blina Station. Ellendale is an outstation to Blina and is located between Derby and Fitzroy Crossing on the Great Northern Highway. Ellendale from the air. Ellendale homestead. The Hallen family have been employed by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company for four years. The Hallen Family! Andy’s role at Ellendale […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. Blina Station has been on fire!! Yesterday afternoon, we were drafting up this year’s weaner steers and we had a bit of a storm . . . and with storms . . . comes lightning! We had a number of separate fires across the […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. Our horse plant is an integral part of the operations at Blina, as we do not use buggies, bikes, or toyotas when handling our cattle. In total we have about 70 in our plant, with quite a few young ‘colts’ (young and newly broken […]
Host: Blina Station Written by – Connie Gray, Station Hand, Blina Station. Hello Central Station, Today we completed our last Breeder muster for the 2013 season. When we muster our Breeder paddocks we pull in all of the breeding cows, draft off the unproductive breeders (cows that aren’t having or rearing calves), wean any young that […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. It is officially over, our 2013 season is done and dusted . . . and what a eventful year it has been. We were off to a flying start in April, and by June we had all the cattle done around the homestead. We […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by – Karen O’Brien, Manager, Liveringa Station. Do you remember our previous hosts Liveringa Station? True to the nature of station life, they were so busy during their hosting week they didn’t have a chance to introduce the whole crew. Now, as the season winds up Karen would like you to […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Each year after the breeder cattle around the homestead have been mustered and processed we start to prepare to head out bush. This usually takes a few days, the step deck gets loaded with the portable race, crush, and loader, the ‘wild thing’ gets […]
