Over the last week, many people I know have contacted me about the ban on Australian live exports. They are absolutely devastated by the whole situation – the cruelty to the cattle and then the hysterical public reaction since – some of which has been vitriolic, to put it mildly. This is precisely the anti-livestock industry drama that animal […]
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A letter regarding 4 Corners Live Export programme
June 9th, 2011Impact of Australian live export ban – AACo share trading halt
June 8th, 2011The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has asked for a halt on share trading until Friday, while the company assesses the impact of the live export ban. The AACo is Australia’s oldest pastoral company and now Australia’s largest, with landholdings of more than 1% of the continent’s landmass and almost 500,000 head of cattle. Indonesia is Australia’s largest export […]
Australia’s livestock exports and animal rights extremists
June 8th, 2011If animal rights groups were first and foremost intent on preventing any cattle being treated cruelly in Indonesian abattoirs then why on earth did they film in March and sit on the film footage for several months? Why not just put it straight onto national news to ensure there was immediate action? How many cattle […]
Quadrant Agtour to NT cattle stations
March 2nd, 2011This year Quadrant Agtour is running another cattle station tour. This year it runs for 21 days in June-July, and the travellers are escorted by Brian Hill. The cattle stations to be visited include: Alexandria, Brunette Downs, Hayfield, Victoria River Downs, Wave Hill and Melaleuca. Other tour highlights included are: the buffalo programme on Beatrice Hill Farm, Kakadu, […]
BBC television programmes featuring Australian cattle stations
February 17th, 2011The BBC is in the midst of screening a TV series on the world’s grasslands, called ‘Grasslands – Roots of Power’. Included is a clip featuring Australian chopper mustering, called ‘Australian Helicopter Cowboys’. It features Territorian Ben Tapp and another chopper pilot, Rankin Garland, mustering a couple of thousand head last year on the Tapp’s Maryfield station. Beautifully filmed […]
Mataranka Station animal neglect or cruelty
November 1st, 2010Discussions continue about the death of cattle on Mataranka Station, the Northern Territory training/education cattle station owned by Charles Darwin University. Estimates of the cattle that starved to death between September 2009 and May 2010 range from 200 to 800, but really the quantity is irrelevant because 200 is too many, if claims are correct that […]
Australian Agricultural Company (AACo)
October 19th, 2010AACo Chief Financial Officer Kerrie Parker resigned lastAugust, leaving next month to work for Amcor after less than twelve months work. Kerrie worked for Golden Circle prior to taking up the AACo job. Phil Beale has just been appointed as the new AACo CFO and he starts work in February 2011. Phil has been working in […]
Stanbroke Pastoral Company suing Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd
August 15th, 2010Stanbroke Pastoral Company are taking Xstrata’s Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd to court to recover costs relating to environmental damage
The U.S. cattle industry and Texas A & M University
August 7th, 2010Interesting article on Beef producer’s views of the state of the U.S. cattle industry in Agrilife News. Agrilife News is produced by Texas A & M University– a university specialising in agricultural studies and research. There are two campuses – one in Galveston (Texas) and the other in Qatar. Given that Texas is the U.S. state most […]
S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale
June 16th, 2010S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market. At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert. The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and […]