Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. My cousin Sam and I got talking about ways to prop up our wages and decided beef cattle production was the best way forward. Kadaitcha Pastoral Company had the simplest of origins. I was staying in Brisbane overnight with my cousin Sam, en […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by James Christian – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. It is very easy to over-analyse what farming is about. Here is a simplistic, unveiled look at what we really are aiming to do. The theory behind being a beef farmer in central Australia isn’t particularly difficult, in my opinion anyway. All you […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. There is something about a cattle station that evokes a primitive disposition from everyone who is lucky enough to step foot over the boundary grid. The rawness of the environment has an enchanting power that casts a spell, which can never be broken. […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. I was born a rambling man, there’s no two ways about it. I’ve been living out of a bag since I went to boarding school at 10 years old. After school, becoming a mustering pilot was a natural progression, not that it came […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. As a helicopter mustering pilot working on cattle stations in Northern Australia you are constantly operating in a dangerous unpredictable environment with hot days, rough terrain, long hours, tough cattle, and wild weather. Aviation is inherently high risk and pilots are at the forefront […]
Host: Kadaitcha Pastoral Company Written by Sam Chisholm – Owner, Kadaitcha Pastoral Company. Everyone loves a good top ten and Central Station is no exception. Given the lack of voice coming from the middle of Australia, this list will fill you in on everything you’ve been missing from the Outback’s best-kept secret. 1. Bloody Good Beef […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. Holding Cattle (Photo Credit Yasmin Gray). At Blina, we have 15 breeder paddocks and they are mustered twice a year. The reason we muster twice a year is so that our cows are able to put on weight again over the wet season and […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. I was getting really stumped about what to write for Central Station and worried that I was running out of ideas for interesting and relevant things to write about. I turned to our lovely station cook (who is also my mother’s close friend) and […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. Being on a station isn’t just a job. It is a lifestyle choice. I often joke that Matt manages the stations, and I manage the manager. Our life revolves around the station, sometimes it is hard when you have plans to attend a party […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. My husband has two wives. One is tall and blonde, with a quick temper and a big smile. The other is warm, brown and at times, unforgiving. Sometimes she demands all that we have. She is not truly his, she belongs to another man […]
Host: Blina Station Written by Constance Wood – Manager, Blina Station. I never knew that snakes drank milk. I had never thought about it. When I was visiting a neighbouring station last year, the cook there told me that milk powder attracts snakes. Incredulous, I followed the python we were looking at, straight to the […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Justine – Cook, Glenforrie Station. Hi my name is Justine, and welcome to the Glenflorrie kitchen – where there’s dishes a plenty and lately non-stop tomatoes coming in my door ready for sauces or chutneys. As the beloved “cookie” (yes everyone gets the nickname) you’ll have plenty of people coming […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written Justine – Cook, Glenforrie Station. “What if I’m not up to standard? What will happen?”, I enquired, and Teesh, the Glenflorrie station manager, replied with “As long as you are willing to give it a go, we’ll keep you round”. That was all the reassurance I needed to accept the position, […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Abby – Station Hand, Glenforrie Station. I am in the last few weeks before finishing my first season on a cattle station. I work on Glenflorrie station in south west Pilbara. For me this is a dream come true. I had always wanted to work on a station and I […]
Host: Glenforrie Station Written by Aticia Grey – Owner/Operator, Pilbara Working Dogs. To learn more about Aticia’s working dogs, follow Pilbara Working Dogs on Facebook Sometimes it is phrased as a question, more often an accusation. “That’s too many dogs! Poor old cow is out numbered! That’s cruel, harassing her like that!” Let me get something out […]
Host: Charles Darwin University, Katherine Rural Campus We can come up for air now the show season is over. The cows are turned out in the paddock in preparation for calving, the bulls are busy and the students are out on work experience. 2016 local shows were a success for all cattle and students in […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written by Robin Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. Every year that I blog for Central Station marks the milestone that more progress has been made at the Wallal Downs pivots. It’s not until this moment that you realise how much can change in one year. So here we go again […]
Host: Warrawagine Cattle Co. Written Robin Mills – Owner, Warrawagine Cattle Co. Living in north west WA, most people are accustomed to a cyclone or two every wet season, with some doing more damage than others. It has been almost seven years since Severe Tropical Cyclone Laurence. Laurence crossed the coast as a category 5 […]
Host: Lake Nash Station Written by Lilly Marks – Station Hand, Argadargada Station. My name is Lilly Marks, I originally come from central Queensland but work in the Northern Territory on Lake Nash Station which is situated on the Barkly Tablelands. Our beloved plant horses after a long day’s work. I began my season at Argadargada […]
Host: Lake Nash Station Written by Indiana Latcham – Headstockman, Lake Nash Station. My name is Indiana Latcham and I am the head stockman of the weaner camp here at Lake Nash Station. Before weaner camp can spring into action, our stock camp need to do their thing – stock camp usually spends weeks at […]
