Host: Mystery Park Written by Ainsley McArthur – Owner, Mystery Park. School holidays are winding up and like many families in rural Australia, we are preparing to drop our eleven year old off at boarding school. Andrew is beyond excited, chatting about the changes, gathering his belongings at the door, delegating his chores to his siblings, and […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Ainsley McArthur – Owner, Mystery Park. Sunrise is my favourite time of the day . . . I’m yet to convince Lachlan of the tranquility of sunrise! Although with cattle to yard up and trucks to load, he didn’t groan too much about pulling on his boots and hat to […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – Owner, Mystery Park. I’ve always loved mornings, but 2am is pushing the friendship! The reason for this insanity? A beef production. This week I am processing around 250 head of 110 day grainfed steers. Since hosting Central Station in 2014, I have taken on a role managing […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by Tess Camm – General Manager, Signature Beef. I couldn’t imagine growing up anywhere other than on a cattle station. At ‘Mystery Park’, like many family owned and operated cattle stations, kids are an integral to the operation. Rather than juggling parenting, childcare and station duties, we came along for the […]
Guest Host: Sally Leigo Sally lives in Alice Springs and travels frequently around remote Australia leading a research project for the beef industry called the Precision Pastoral Management Tools Project. It is one of twelve research projects being undertaken by the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP). She is employed by both the […]
Guest Host: Richard George Dr Richard George is a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Agriculture and Food WA, and leads major projects and water science areas. He and his small team have recently completed the land and water assessments that lay behind the approval of Ord Stage 2 and have other major projects […]
Guest Host: Judith Pritchett Judith Pritchett started with Kimberley School of The Air in 1996 teaching years 2 and 4 using the radio as the delivery platform. Judith has since taught across the school years specialising in the Information and Technology area. Currently, she is teaching Kindergarten as well as doing the IT role. The days […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Owner, Hodgson River Station. I’m trying to focus on ‘change’ this week and have twisted the arm of my father in law (Pop) who has an incredible memory for detail, he used to drill for water in his younger days. Well digging. Is in its very […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Owner, Hodgson River Station. This week I was trying to look at different aspects of ‘change’ in the northern beef industry. Today I’m using some old photos from my husband’s family to consider some points of how things have changed from the early 1900’s and through that century […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Owner, Hodgson River Station. Like most properties we’ve never been able to warrant the expense of paying for new and shiny trucks, because the money could be spent looking after our cattle, so we’ve tended to make do with what we had or bought second hand ones. […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Owner, Dampier Downs Station. Cattle producers in northern Australia have had a tough few years. Fortunately, this year is shaping up to be one of the most promising in recent times. Prices are up, large parts of the north have received life-giving rain, and our […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Owner, Dampier Downs Station. Fifty years ago last month my parents were married in New Zealand, my mother’s home country. For my mother, this meant moving to the Australian outback, first to the family property near Kynuna, Queensland and then to a small, undeveloped station […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Peta Anderson – Dampier Downs Station. Hi my name is Peta Anderson and I am here to tell you about my recent adventure in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Filled with fun, animals, and a small amount of sleep. Last school holidays, for about two weeks, I visited Dampier Downs […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Owner, Dampier Downs Station. As another busy year kicks off there will undoubtedly be many first time jillaroos and jackaroos heading north to try their hand working on a cattle station. For most, it will be a huge change and, despite what you may think […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Owner, Dampier Downs Station. Only in this industry could a part-time milliner from Broome meet a fashion designer from Belgium, who would design her a fabulous dress for New York Fashion Week on the back of an empty pizza box, all at the local rodeo. […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – Owner, Dampier Downs Station. Well, this certainly came around fast. It feels like only a few weeks ago I was putting the final touches to last year’s blogs, but here I am again. In truth, I scratched my head a bit as to what to […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. When living and working on the land is your business inevitably you will need quite a variety of vehicles and miscellaneous types of machinery as “tools of the trade”. First up you need to have at least one ute – the number of different […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Water is vital for the survival of all living things. Many properties have at least one dam that provides water to its stock. On “Eversleigh” we only have one large dam with all of our other watering points connected to a system of tanks […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. Cows enjoying cottonseed in a trough. As the name suggests, cottonseed is the seed of the cotton plant that is left after removing the lint and fibres from the cotton plant. Generally it is very cost effective (well, it used to be before the […]
Host: Eversleigh Station Written by Jenny Underwood – Owner, Eversleigh Station. A sound and fertile bull is fundamental to any successful breeding operation. The number of cows which will be joined to a bull is generally calculated on paddock size, country type, length of joining period, and other seasonal and environmental factors. Most bulls will […]
