Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory At the beginning of October last year I saddled up with ‘Horses for Courses for Bush Kids’ and took it to Central Australia to continue raising awareness of the issues facing Aussie Bush Kids and their families. Riding along the […]
Host: Horses for Courses for Bush Kids Written by Tiani Cook, Suplejack Station, Northern Territory Hi there, my name is Tiani Cook and I founded ‘Horses for Courses for Bush Kids’ back in 2017. Along with a childhood friend Natuccia Walker, we rode horses 1,000kms across the Northern Territory finishing up in Darwin over a […]
Written by Talya Kirkham, Governess – Moorarie Station, Meekatharra, Western Australia It was midnight in October 2015 after a 22-hour flight from Europe when I landed in Perth, jumped in my little blue Holden Cruze and drove 10 hours to Moorarie Station Meekatharra. I got to my aunties station at around 10.30am to head to […]
Written by Nic Kentish, Resource Consulting Services Bad habits generally creep in slowly. My friend who happens to also be my livestock selling agent has developed a bad habit over his career. He sometimes says to me, “I can get rid of those cows for you.” Or, “I will quit those lambs for you.” I […]
Written by Dean Maughan Milne Feeds has been around for over 100 years but has been owned by the Laitt family for the last 40 odd years. With the company’s close involvement over time with chicken, cattle, sheep and pig production, Milne Feeds has become a feed mill that is not just interested in producing […]
Written by Dean Maughan In my last blog I discussed how I got hooked on the Kimberley and how I developed this passion to bring some of my knowledge and experience from working with dairy cattle to the north to help with weaner beef cattle management. Over a period of four years of taking annual […]
Written by Dean Maughan As a kid, I grew up on a dairy farm in Harvey, southern WA. Right from a very young age I became involved in horses and dairy cattle. This progressed to me developing the “dream” that when I finished school, I would like to be a “Ringer” and spend a year […]
Host: Remote Building Services Written by Lise Browning, co-owner – Remote Building Services. Here is a day in the life of a remote builder… 5:50am Wake up. There is smoke haze everywhere, definitely fire season now in remote Northern Territory. 6:00am Queue for the loo. Mustering camp here, 20 people and 2 loos, yay! Queue […]
Written by Sophie Heffernan, Guest contributor. So you’re probably reading this expecting to hear another romanticised story about a young girls adventure ‘up north’ and in some ways you’re probably right… But please, just hear me out. The lessons and values I acquired living in the Kimberley, working on a remote cattle station, accompanied me […]
Host: AgForce Queensland Written by Cass Heal, AgForce Projects Co-ordinator. AgForce has been the unifying voice for Queensland’s beef, sheep and grain producers since 1999. Our strength continues through our membership and a strategic vision to secure the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the agribusiness sector. AgForce has approximately thirty staff based in Brisbane and regionally around Queensland. Growing […]
Host: AgForce Queensland Written by Amelia Shaw, AgForce Policy Officer. AgForce has been the unifying voice for Queensland’s beef, sheep and grain producers since 1999. Our strength continues through our membership and a strategic vision to secure the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the agribusiness sector. AgForce has approximately thirty staff based in Brisbane and regionally around […]
Host: AgForce Queensland Written by Marie Vitelli, AgForce Weeds Policy Officer. AgForce has been the unifying voice for Queensland’s beef, sheep and grain producers since 1999. Our strength continues through our membership and a strategic vision to secure the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the agribusiness sector. AgForce has approximately thirty staff based in Brisbane and […]
Host: AgForce Queensland Written by Sharon Purcell, AgForce Southern Inland Queensland Regional manager. AgForce has been the unifying voice for Queensland’s beef, sheep and grain producers since 1999. Our strength continues through our membership and a strategic vision to secure the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the agribusiness sector. AgForce has approximately thirty staff based in Brisbane […]
Host: AgForce Queensland Written by Brett Carlsson, Senior Wild Dog Coordinator. AgForce has been the unifying voice for Queensland’s beef, sheep and grain producers since 1999. Our strength continues through our membership and a strategic vision to secure the productivity, profitability and sustainability of the agribusiness sector. AgForce has approximately thirty staff based in Brisbane and regionally […]
Written by Lindsey Perry This is the fifth and final installment in a series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here, part two here part three here, and part four here. I was sleepy and admittedly a little hungover, but the rhythmic footfalls of my chestnut, Madrinador (meaning old wise […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part four in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here, part two here and part three here. This past week I’ve talked a lot about the great experiences I had in Brazil, but that’s not to say that the country […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part three in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here and part two here. While out on the property, we had no access to phone reception or internet. I am guilty of being on my phone way more than I […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part two in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. You can find part one here. Our alarms were set for sparrow’s fart – or, given that we were now in the Pantanal, curicaca’s fart. The curicacas were crowing long before the sun and they […]
Written by Sarah Martin This is part one in a 5-part series about life on a cattle station in Brazil. Vivid. It was the only word we could find to truly describe how Brazil felt to us. The culture, the food, the animals, the music, the traffic. Everything in Brazil just seemed so much “more”. […]
Host: Undoolya Station Written by Nikita Hayes The Hayes family has a long history in Central Australia. Here’s a look at how this pioneering family began back in the 1800’s. HAYES, WILLIAM 1827-1913, a pastoralist, William was born in Liverpool and brought up in Wales, where he became a butcher. He claimed that when he […]
