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A classic Australian road train hauls a load of “weaners”—one-year-old cattle—across Waterloo Station, a sprawling 730-square-mile property in Australia’s remote Northern Territory. With some 25 million cattle, vast livestock stations, and highly efficient range and pasture-based cow-calf operations, Australia has become the third-largest beef exporter in the world, with cattle grazing across nearly half its land area. Northern Territory production is highly seasonal, as the poor soils turn to muck during the wet season from November to April when cattle are left out to graze the rich new growth of grass. These weaners will be finished on better grass at another property with an all-weather road. The majority of the territory’s cattle are exported live to Indonesia from the port at Darwin.

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A classic Australian road train hauls a load of “weaners”—one-year-old cattle—across Waterloo Station, a sprawling 730-square-mile property in Australia’s remote Northern Territory. With some 25 million cattle, vast livestock stations, and highly efficient range and pasture-based cow-calf operations, Australia has become the third-largest beef exporter in the world, with cattle grazing across nearly half its land area. Northern Territory production is highly seasonal, as the poor soils turn to muck during the wet season from November to April when cattle are left out to graze the rich new growth of grass. These weaners will be finished on better grass at another property with an all-weather road. The majority of the territory’s cattle are exported live to Indonesia from the port at Darwin.

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