Host: Miss Chardy I am not your typical outback chick. I often think about all of my fabulous friends up here and have no idea how they do it all. They can ride horses like it is nobodies business, they are so damned competent and could probably turn their hands to almost anything. I swear […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Breanna Dorrington – ‘The Kid’, Yarrie Station. You may remember a story of the “Kid” from a few 2013? Well she’s back and growing up awfully fast, which for some is scary – but for Yarrie we are very happy about as every school holidays she arrives the more helpful […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Sheryl Dorrington – Assistant Manager of Yarrie Station. Sheryl has a long history with Yarrie, first coming to work for Annabelle’s parents when she was about 18 years old. Since that time she has been away, raised her daughter Brea and worked on other farming properties across the state. She […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Andrea Craigie – Station Hand/Record Keeper, Yarrie Station. Andrea has returned to Yarrie Station again this year and works as a Stationhand/Record Keeper. A lot of her role includes collecting, collating and summarising station records as well as yard work and handling weaners. I’d have to say that a pretty common […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Ebony Hill – Station Hand and Sally Jolly – Guest, Yarrie Station. Today’s entry is two blogs in one! They are written by Ebony Hill and Sally Jolly Growing up on small acreage and having to do high school in a regional city was not for me, my dream was […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Colin and Corrina Lewis – Managers, Tamangunyah Farm. Yarrie also runs in conjunction with a farming property 1400km south in the state’s mid-west. This region has an opposite growing season to the north, with most rain falling from May to September, meaning in a perfect season our operation has access […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin – Owner, Yarrie Station. What a huge 12 months for Yarrie and the new Outback Beef business! It’s been my first year running solo as our family succession plans have kicked into fruition. The first bonus is that I’m still here and plan to be for the rest […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Officer, Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Katherine Research Station. If there was a cow in your herd that was consuming resources, but not giving you anything back, you’d get rid of her wouldn’t you? Especially, if she came through the yards, year in, […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Whitney Dollemore – Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Katherine Research Station. What is there I can possibly say that isn’t already known . . . well nothing. I am going to say what many a more knowledgeable person has said before me . . . the […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Officer, Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Katherine Research Station. Try as I might, and I do, I cannot convince the people I talk to that counting grass is sexy. I get dressed up. I bring my own toys. I talk in a foreign […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Arthur Cameron – Principal Pastures Agronomist, DPIF, Darwin. Setting the scene . . . The status quo in 1976 was an annual catch and release harvest of mostly uncontrolled shorthorn cattle using horses. Properties were largely undeveloped which contributed to missed animals when mustering. Aircraft and helicopter mustering was […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Founder and Managing Director, Yougawalla Pastoral Company (Husband of this week’s host, Jane Sale). “Mentor” is I believe a much over used word in today’s vernacular. There are mentoring programs for just about anything you can think of. The real meaning of mentor in my book […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Yulia Meally – Cook/Caretaker, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Meally family of Bulka Station – Yulia, Gary, and young Seamus. Hi everyone, my name is Yulia, I have written a few years ago on Central Station about my transition from living in a huge city in Surabaya, Indonesia, to moving to […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Angus Campbell – Pilot, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Learning to fly a helicopter has been one of the most mentally challenging things that I have ever done. I have always wanted to fly ever since I was a young fella watching the super planes flying at treetop height over home. […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. I have found that living on a station remotely with different logistical pressures means you have to be flexible and prepared for plans to change. My dad, when he spends time here, says, “Forget about Plan B, on station it is more […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Your cattle management starts and ends with your people management. Like any small business every person makes a difference and the leader must set an example. Unless you are planning on doing your cattle handling on your own, what you do and […]
Host: Rangelands NRM Written by Kira Andrews – Evaluation and Project Manager, Rangelands NRM. I have had the pleasure of visiting a few stations across Western Australia to look at opportunities to support land management projects. I would often marvel at how hard everyone worked but I would always think – “This seems so hard, surely […]
Host: Rangelands NRM Written by Kane Watson – Regional Landcare Facilitator, Rangelands NRM. I came into this role thinking I could bring landcare principles to the Southern Rangelands stations, but from what I have seen they are already there! This is not just about what is good for the land but also what is good for […]
Host: Rangelands NRM Written by Grey Mackay – Kimberley Program Manager, Rangelands NRM. Having spent most of my life in Perth, I always yearned to be out of the city. I grew up in a fairly large family with three older sisters, an older brother, and later 13 nieces and nephews. I have always had a […]
Host: Rangelands NRM Written by Kieran Massie –Program Manager (Southern Rangelands), Rangelands NRM. Arriving in Western Australia as a teenager from a small town in the north east of Scotland, there was nothing that put the zap on my head quite like the Australian Outback. The red dirt of Outback WA is like nothing in Scotland. There […]
