The adventure of a lifetime, two best mates, riding side by side in the wild landscape of Mongolia. When Jess and Nat entered the world’s toughest horse race, they knew it would be hard. Finishing the race itself was as big a deal as winning. But, these women were from the Northern Territory – they’d […]
Dr Campbell Costello, aka ‘Cozy’, is a jet-setting veterinarian who has practiced not only throughout Australia, but all over the world. In this episode, Cozy reflects on the time he spent 9 months in Kazakhstan, managing a cattle ranch that was being built from scratch. From language barriers and cultural differences, to finding workers drunk […]
It’s a warm summer’s day – you’re standing at a sheep market in a Middle Eastern country as tens of thousands of people descend upon the city in preparation for the upcoming celebration of EID. The atmosphere is palpable – excitement, joy, and stress – picture your local shopping centre on Christmas eve. Your job? […]
Host: Yougawalla Pastoral Co. Written by Haydn Sale – Manager, Yougawalla Pastoral Company I am writing this blog at 41,000 feet passing over Africa on the way to Perth via Dubai from Brazil. Total travel time 35 hours. My wife Jane (the founder of this website) tells me to use the time and write my […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. Every year the Ministry of Agriculture holds an Agriculture Show, and up until 2017 a separate one was held on each island, Upolu and Savaii. Each technical division of the Ministry (Fisheries, Livestock, Crops and Quarantine) prepare displays for the public to view in […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. This is part 2 of a two part series. Find part 1 here. Our stock truck and the portable yards were standing by at the cattle station, 2 hours away. After much back and forth with our boss, he and the consultants agreed that […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. There’s one night in 2015 that is a night which has been forever etched in my mind. It was the night our brand-spanking new Droughtmaster cattle and Dorper sheep arrived from Australia, however, things did not go completely according to plan. This is not […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. The Animal Production & Health Division (APHD) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) office at Vaea, near the centre of Upolu Island. 56,000. According the Samoa Bureau of Statistics Agriculture Survey, that was the total number of cattle in all of Samoa […]
Written by Dr. Renee Orange, Veterinarian, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Samoa. I thought I could do a short bio on myself, so you know where I am coming from in my stories and why I write the way I do. My name is Renee Jayne Avea-Maloamata Orange, people call me Renee, Nay or Ray. My […]
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: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part 5 in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here, part two here, part three here and part four here. While the glamour and romance seem, for a newbie, to be wrapped up in […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part four in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here, part two here and part three here. Let me state very clearly here that I do not consider myself a cowgirl. I can ride, can’t […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part three in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here and part two here. As I write this, spring and branding seems a far cry away. Our winters are usually cold, snowy […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers, New Mexico, USA Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant This is part two in a 5-part series about managing a Native American Reservation ranch. Find part one here. Well, in all reality, life here on the Rez ranch (Native American Reservation) really isn’t that different than life on any other […]
Host: Mescalero Apache Cattle Growers Written by Ruth Wold, Managers Assistant Let me introduce myself and our family. My name is Ruth Wold, my husband, Dusty, is employed by the Mescalero Apache Tribe to run their cattle operation on their Reservation in Central New Mexico, USA. We have four boys, Rafe, Cal, Cord, and Grant. […]
