Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Extension Officer, Katherine Research Station. Yesterday’s blog was about the awesome work the CashCow Project did and the results that have the ability to really help the northern beef industry to progress. Well, today I’d like to tell you about an event that has […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Extension Officer, Katherine Research Station. First of all, I have to say, I cannot take any credit for the work I’m about to describe to you as I personally had very little to do with it – however other members of the team I […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward, Pastoral Production Extension Officer Not wanting to put words in your mouth or anything, but I have a sneaking suspicion that some of you may be wondering what it is we get up to when we’re not running field days, workshops, or are seen out collecting data […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward, Pastoral Production Extension Officer DPIR offers a number of training opportunities for station staff with a wide range of previous experiences, for everyone from first year jillaroos and jackaroos right through to managers and station owners wanting to improve specific skill sets. One of our favourite activities […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward, Pastoral Production Extension Officer When the time came around again for the Pastoral Production Team of Katherine Research Station to host Central Station, I looked back at our previous blogs and became overwhelmed by how much the team had changed since we first contributed to Central Station […]
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: Katherine Research Station Written by Trisha Cowley – Beef Cattle Extension Office and Whitney Dollemore – Beef Research Officer, both DPIF. Snap! On goes a glove. Squirt! On goes some lubricant. The ultrasound machine is humming and it is time for a fertility check-up! But we are not in the maternity ward, we are […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Helen McMillan – Pastoral Production Officer – DPIF. Hi! I’m Helen McMillan and I’ve been with the Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries in Tennant Creek for almost 12 months now. Originally I’m from Deniliquin (southern NSW), but after completing a degree in Rural Science I really wanted to […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Pastoral Production Officer, DPIF. I am regularly told that I have the best job in Australia. I get to travel to a number of cattle stations right across the NT, looking at pasture health on trial sites and sharing my passion for the importance of good […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Trisha Cowley – Beef Cattle Extension Office, DPIF. I can still vividly remember being told about the ringer who was horned by a scrub bull which gave him a “second bum hole”, or so the storyteller said. Horns on cattle are definitely dangerous, particularly with the increasing proportion of […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Trudi Oxley – Regional Manager, Katherine Pastoral Production. This week the Katherine Pastoral Production crew from the NT Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPIF) will give a snapshot of some of the many and varied activities we undertake to deliver research and extension. This year we also have a […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Good news! We didn’t burn out the neighbours, we only set the right plots alight and everybody had a good time! (Oh and we finished pasture sampling before we burnt!) With one dozer, one grader, two fire fighting units, six […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Excuse me there . . . Yes, you in the corner dying – what species are you? As it turns out, pasture species identification in October is not as easy as it is in May or June! At the moment, […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. After another beautiful sunrise this morning we set off again at a cracking pace for my last day in the fencing crew. Yesterday we managed to get most of the pickets in and ran wire out on three sides of […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Hi everyone, I’m Jodie Ward and I am a Grass Counter. What exactly is, and does, a grass counter do I hear you ask? Well, hopefully by the end of this blog, I will have answered your question! You see, […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Whitney Dollemore – Pastoral Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. This week Katherine Pastoral Production will be giving you some insight into the type of work we do for the northern cattle industry. There are six of us in the team and we are involved in collecting and sharing information […]
