Many breeder paddocks in northern Australia are too big and under-watered to achieve optimum productivity. In the Barkly Tableland region, for example, average paddock area is 218 km² (21,800 hectares) and some are more than 1000 km². These large, poorly watered paddocks impact on reproduction and profitability: there’s over-and under-utilised feed (depending on distance from water), […]
The Everett family are like many others in the Northern Territory – they live and breathe horses, cattle, and station life. However, their lives changed irrevocably in January 2018 when Dolly Everett, 14, took her own life after being the target of relentless bullying at boarding school. In this episode we sit down with Kate Everett […]
You may remember Tom and Annabel Curtain from Episode … Tom is a long-time horse trainer, Golden Guitar winning musician, and founder of Katherine Outback Experience. Annabel’s dad picked Tom up while he was hitchhiking one day, and these days she calls the Northern Territory home, where she runs Katherine Outback Experience alongside her now-husband […]
Dr Jillian Kelly is the District Vet in Coonamble, New South Wales. You know the show CSI – Crime Scene Investigation? Well, Jill is basically a detective for diseases in farm animals. She discovered the first case of Ichthyosis fetails, or Fish Scale Disease, in Australia! Jill is also the founder of the “Drought Smoko”, and has […]
Mark Bettini is the co-owner and manager of Bettini Beef – a family business which manages 5 cattle stations across 1 million hectares in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. In this episode Mark shares his experience of going from managing drought conditions after a poor season in 2018, to managing for flood and the […]
Hayley Goad is the Office Administrator for Bettini Beef – a family owned business which manages 1 million hectares in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Don’t let her job title fool you though – she spends as much time out on the station as she does in the office! In this episode, we sit […]
In July 2019 we released a parody video on our Facebook page of the Ariana Grande song “Breathin’” called “Breedin’”. The song features pastoralists from cattle stations in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia dancing in their paddocks, cattle yards, and on trucks, while singing about early weaning, segregation, pregnancy testing and supplementation. […]
Jane Sale is a station manager, business owner, wife, mother, and the brains behind the original concept for the Central Station website. From starting off with an undeveloped 850,000 acre block of land on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert with just 800 head of cattle, today Jane and her husband Haydn manage over […]
Boyd Holden is a livestock handling and animal welfare consultant based on the Northern Rivers of NSW. His knowledge, skills and expertise in animal handling begins at the farm gate and extends all the way along the process to the point of slaughter. Boyd’s extensive experience includes the transport of livestock, saleyards, feedlots, quarantine depots, abattoirs and live […]
Introducing Market Updates brought to you by the team at Landmark Broome. In this short episode, Livestock Agent Todd Walsh gives a run down on what’s been happening in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia given the current dry conditions. **** To find the “Is the animal fit to load?” guide online, visit https://www.mla.com.au/ and […]
Connie Wood, Assistant Manager of Blina Station in the West Kimberley, has written some of the most popular stories on the Central Station website. In this episode, she recalls the stories of how her husband Matt proposed, and what it was like planning a wedding with a station-manager-come-groomzilla. Connie also shares an insight into the […]
When Felicity “Flic” Brown decided to go traveling around Australia, she told her everyone she’d be back in two years. 25 years later she’s become one of the most recognizable faces of the Kimberley community, and not yet made it back home. Flic’s journey has taken her across a number of cattle stations in northern […]
On June 15 the Central Station podcast was launched through Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Episode 1 featured Tom & Annabel Curtain from Katherine Outback Experience. The story of how Katherine Outback Experience came to be is once of devastation and resilience. Left without work after the live cattle export ban of 2011, Tom started singing four times […]
