Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah Station. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin Myroodah Station Staff during the Low Stress Stockhandling School. When 16 Aboriginal stockmen and women exited the training room on Myroodah station this afternoon, there was a vibe of empowerment and confidence of new […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah Station. It’s Monday morning on Myroodah Station. The staff have been fed breakfast and packed their smoko and lunch for the day ahead. As daylight breaks, they are off to work. The day for me starts early too. I collect my dogs and walk towards […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Today is the day we go to the Indonesian abattoir. This is the day that I know some have been waiting for, while personally, I have been dreading. I am not looking forward to the deluge of hate comments that are sure […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. What is Way Laga? In very simple terms, Way Laga is a research project that aims to answer the questions of: How do breeding cattle perform when their diet is based on waste palm oil (sawit) leaves? Does a base diet of […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. I realise I may have jumped the gun a bit with introducing Dr. Neny, yet she is such an important part of our operations I felt she deserved to come in before the normal, daily operations of the feedlot. Today I will […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Here we are, the halfway point of my week hosting Central Station and we have seen the journey the cattle have made from the top end of Aus to a port, followed by a relatively short ship trip to another port (approx […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. I would love to have wonderfully creative names for my pieces like Jo did, unfortunately ‘Cattle, Ships and Travel to Foreign Lands’ just doesn’t have the same ring as PMT (Pre Mustering Tension) This is the continuation of the story of the […]
Host: Lisa Wood/ AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Today is a day where I’m not going to show you any cows. Today is about some of the people behind the scenes. Let’s face it, without people we cannot put systems in place that result in positive animal welfare outcomes. Without […]
Host: Lisa Wood/AGP Indonesia Written by Lisa Wood – Traceability Officer, AGP. Hi, as your host for this week, I’ll be taking you through what happens with Aus Cattle from the importers perspective. I work for an Indonesian importer and have been in Indo for close to three years. There are so many people involved […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. We produce animals with the intention that they are used for food by people who do not have the land, resources, time, or desire to produce their own. We supply on occasion to abattoirs in Australia where our animals are slaughtered and […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. The process of removing weaners from the cows is extremely important for the long term health and handling ability of the herd. If the weaners (being calves over four months old) weren’t removed from their mums then the drag they would create […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. Once we have mustered, we have the cattle in the yard now and we need to sort them out. The cattle only come into the yard once a year. Drafting is simply the term used to sort the herd into various groups. […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. Our property is relatively small in size to the average property up north, with most of our activities governed by the weather being mainly the wet and the dry season. What makes mustering difficult is the ruggedness, scrub, and volume of natural […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. PMT is a common infliction that affects all people involved with herding animals across Australia. It can occur in sporadic intense inflictions or slow pressure increases affecting both male and female personnel. It is definitely felt more intensely by those who are […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. My name is Haydn Sale. My wife Jane and I live and work at Yougawalla Station. Jane and some of the other women from local pastoral stations came up with the great idea for this blog, to give people an insight into […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager and Tim Allen – First Year Station Hand, both of Yougawalla Pastoral Co. I am signing out for the week now. Haydn, my husband has asked to do a guest blog tomorrow so the boss has given me Sunday off! The weather seems to have […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Station & Yulia – Cook, Bulka Station, both of Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Well it has been a very quiet day on the hill today. It does give me a chance to catch up in the office and what’s happening around the house. It’s is […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Plan A is out the window! Haydn’s chopper has a problem with the rotor blade and he can’t fly it, so mustering at Wattle Springs has been cancelled. This and the fact that some wet weather looks like it is on the […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. On the weekend Haydn decided to muster a small paddock at Bulka which was not part of the plan . . . So our weekend consisted of unexpected drafting, processing, and tailing weaners, as well as walking out some bulls and heifers. […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Hi there, this is a very exciting day for Central Station and for me, Jane Sale. I hope you will see through tuning into the weekly hosts on Central Station, how differently each station, feedlot, and all the business’ run. This is […]
