Noreena Downs station is approx a 1 million acre beef cattle station in the east pilbara of western australia. 156 kms north northeast of newman and 71 kms south east of Nullagine.

 

It  is run by the Paull family, In August 2013 the Paull family had been Noreena Downs keeper for 30 years and what a journey it has been.

It all started when Tex (Geoffrey) and Tub (Anne) Paull bought Noreena in a partnership for 18 months. After the 18 months was up they took sole ownership of Noreena.

It was a fair bit abandoned and run down, no running water points, no workshop, homestead gone, paddocks zilch, in better words not a lot of anything.Noreena is a lot more developed now, we have a lot more infrastructure and water points which we look at with a sense of fulfilment although there’s still lots to do and we are by no means flash just budget style.

Noreena in a rump is a family run business

 

Noreena is home to 6500 beef cattle of all shapes, colours and sizes, we run mainly Brahman and Droughtmaster cattle with a hint of Santa, a good sprinkling of shorthorn and a tiny speck of (throwbacks) limousines and charalois, yep we are just a multicultural herd.

We keep some santa's and shorthorns for strength chacteristics, backgrounding and any market changes.

Noreena takes great pleasure in attempting to breed quite tempered, easy handleled and fertile cattle for the australian and international markets and clean beef  for human consumption.

 

 Once our sale cattle are old enough we sell the cull cattle (naughty cows, bulls, Mickey’s, steers, bullocks (big steer) and ugly or naughty heifers), to live export, feeders, breeders and domestic makets, these cattle will be humanely euthanized for human consumption in Australia and across the globe, humans have eaten meat from day dot, imagine a little boy or girl in a third world country getting to sit down and eat a little bit of nutritious , clean and disease free beef from Australia, I hope they would have a full feeling in the belly afterward and nutrition would be starting to pump through their system.

 

Noreena is also home  to much flora and fauna  as well as many lizards and birds.

 

The landscape in the pilbara is in it's own league when it comes to scenery and Noreena is lucky to share some of that with spinifex sandpains,hills, creek and river systems, mulga thickets, breakaway and calcrete country, buffelgrass washes, crabhole country, quatz, agate, cornelian rocks galore, black round pebble flats and kadjebut and wattle of  few varieties  to go with it.

 

 

 

 

Tex loved the bush with a passion and loved to share it with anyone he could, cattle, flora and fauna, scrub, bush animals and the bush country itself were one of his many loves, he cared for with much nurturing Noreena’s ecosystem, rangelands, animals of all descriptions (minus dingo’s, donkeys and camels as these are ferals that cause a lot of damage), erosion control and grasses.

Because of this it has been passed on to us which we will pass onto our next generation, we are more than pastoralists farming cattle we are looking after the bush’s ecosystem and rangeland on Noreena Downs.

 

With all this love, passion, enrichment and devotion we will hopefully for as long as possible continue to be one of the many crucial links to the agricultural world in which we are part of the large chain of beef producers and to feed our fellow countrymen and family’s and anyone else in other countries who would like to have a slobbering good feed on a bit of aussie beef.

 

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