David Connelly has to deal with crocodiles as well as cattle at Tipperary Station. File Photo / Sarah Ivey
David Connelly has to deal with crocodiles as well as cattle at Tipperary Station. File Photo / Sarah Ivey
The Country is going "Outback with Allflex." Jamie Mackay catches up with some of the leading lights in the Platinum Primary Producers Group (comprising 150 of the largest and most productive farmers across Australasia).
Today it's the turn of David Connelly of Tipperary Station.
Tipperary Station is a 400,000 hectarebeef operation in the Northern Territory, 200kms south of Darwin.
Connelly says the area is very productive with high pasture growth due to bountiful rainfall. However, there is one problem hampering Tipperary Station's productivity - crocodiles.
David reports of a crocodile over four metres long that had been killing cattle recently. They captured the offending croc and he was sent to a crocodile farm in Darwin.
Although crocodiles kill his stock, Connelly remains philosophical about the creatures, "my thinking is that the crocodile's there in his natural state and he's really not hurting anyone...it's just as easy for us to catch them and cart them away."
Also in today's interview - David tells Jamie more about Tipperary Station and how to catch a crocodile using a cage and a wild pig.
