Host: Anna Plains Station Written by Helen Stoate – Manager, Anna Plains Station. The dry season is always the busy season in the Kimberley and this year has been no exception. Below is a weekly schedule from a few weeks ago which outlined the plan for that week. Monday, 8 July 2013 Feed Homestead and […]
Host: Wongawol Station 6 am- time for the the sale cattle to go on to a road train to take them from the station to the farm down south. At the farm they will be grown out on pasture and grain for the domestic and live export markets. One of the Mitchells Transport drivers preparing […]
Host: Wongawol Station In the pastoral industry, a “scrub” (also known as a “scrubber”, or “scrub bull”) is a male cattle who escaped castration early on in life. Or, as once said on McLeods daughters ‘A bull with balls’. You see, on a cattle station, during the annual muster (when we round up all the […]
Host: Lochon Contracting Written by Tini O’Loughlin – Owner, Lochon Contracting. Welcome to this week on Central Station. I am Tini from Lochon Contracting. Locky and I will be hosting this blog for the next seven days. We are currently contract mustering on Bulka Station and Margaret River Station. Haydn & Locky at Margaret River Station. The […]
Host: Myroodah Station Written by Pam Daniell – Manager, Myroodah Station. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin Myroodah Station Staff during the Low Stress Stockhandling School. When 16 Aboriginal stockmen and women exited the training room on Myroodah station this afternoon, there was a vibe of empowerment and confidence of new […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. We produce animals with the intention that they are used for food by people who do not have the land, resources, time, or desire to produce their own. We supply on occasion to abattoirs in Australia where our animals are slaughtered and […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. The process of removing weaners from the cows is extremely important for the long term health and handling ability of the herd. If the weaners (being calves over four months old) weren’t removed from their mums then the drag they would create […]
Host: Hodgson River Station Written by Jo Bloomfield – Manager, Hodgson River Station. Once we have mustered, we have the cattle in the yard now and we need to sort them out. The cattle only come into the yard once a year. Drafting is simply the term used to sort the herd into various groups. […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Jane Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Hi there, this is a very exciting day for Central Station and for me, Jane Sale. I hope you will see through tuning into the weekly hosts on Central Station, how differently each station, feedlot, and all the business’ run. This is […]
