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Natalie Engel is the only full-time worker at Sunlight Grazing. She says clever tech makes it possible to go it alone on the 4000 hectare beef-finishing property in central Queensland.
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Asking questions is something journalists are trained to do, and over the years I have been lucky enough to sit down and interview some fascinating people. It has been an amazing opportunity to learn, and I’m grateful that those people have been generous enough to share something of their lives with me — and with the people who have read my stories or listened to my interviews. There is someone in this issue who I know will understand exactly what I mean: Polly Saraiva. She told writer Tom Lazarus that everywhere she goes in her work as Queensland state manager of country banking at Rabobank, she tries to understand what people are about. “If you let people speak, it’s an amazing thing. This curiosity to ask, ‘Hey, tell me about your family, your parents, your business, your challenges, what’s going around.’ This ability to be present and to learn,” she says. I know exactly what she means, and I hope I never lose that curiosity. Madeline Curr certainly has it: on page 78 she writes about the power of understanding her family’s stories. “It’s only as I’ve gotten older that I’ve started wondering about everything that gets left out of the telling. Families can live together, work together and remember the same years completely differently,” she says. I struck gold when I asked Beth Rands to tell me a little bit about “what’s going around” as Polly would say. Despite still being only 28 years old, the chair of Beef Australia’s Next Gen program committee had some very insightful thoughts on the pastoral industry. “Agriculture has a good way of reminding you that not everything can be controlled: cattle, weather, machinery and seasons do not follow the spreadsheet,” she says. Something we all know, at times only too well. Until the next issue, Victoria Carey, Editorial Director
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The single mum-of-two juggles parenting with running her helicopter mustering business in south-west Queensland.
After losing her husband, Penny Button took the reins at the vast property near Longreach, Queensland.
Lyle and Helen Kent started Kent Saddlery in 1988. They have no plans to retire.
“I loved her, treasured her and cared for her as I knew her mother would have wanted.”
When her father ended his own life — just as his beloved dairy industry faced a national crisis — Sallie set about securing a fair price for dairy farmers.
Taking the reins from their father, the sisters oversee the family’s 16,000 hectare sheep property near Cradock in the Flinders Ranges.
Creating opportunities, such as their Four Daughters branded beef, is part of long-term succession planning for the Penfold family.
When she wanted to make a place for herself on her husband’s family farm, Samantha Campbell took up the challenge of growing flowers in the outback.
Between the chaos of drafting, tagging and vaccinating stock, the women of our "Graziher" community share a glimpse of bush beauty through their dusty lenses.
Kylie and Adrian Matthews spent almost four years working on the project.
From Pilates and massages to cocktails and crafting, Lil Holcombe has your Goondiwindi escape sorted.
We chat with Carly Baker-Burnham, of Bloodwood Cabin, who says running a farm stay is less work than you think.
Canadian cowgirl Kyla met her now husband Fred more than a decade ago when she worked as a jillaroo at Omicron, a 202,342 hectare cattle station owned by Fred’s father.
Horses are a big part of the couple's lives, so it was only natural that the groom decided to make an entrance fit for an old Western.
“A few days before the wedding, we were hit with a 75 millimetre downpour.”
Sparks flew when Kate Harding and Jake Nelder met while mustering cattle on the Harding family property seven years ago.
It was the perfect day for a bride who’s passionate about rural communities. Here, she shares her highlights.
Having featured so many beautiful weddings, we decided to take a walk down memory lane and pull together some of our favourite bits and pieces from over the years.
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