Orange Creek Station tracks its livestock heritage back to the days of Kidman and today profitability is maintained by diversification – cattle, lucerne hay, citrus and of course the livestock operation.

The Orange Creek trucks are hard to miss in their green and gold trim with the NT icon of a brolga flying into a setting sun. The operation is based on a cattle station about 100km out of Alice Springs; the livestock trucks are running from one end of the nation to the other.

Orange Creek Station proudly runs poll Hereford cattle in face of trends towards Brahman infused cattle across Northern Australia. But the business of Orange Creek goes beyond the breeding of quality beef cattle … way beyond.

In this remote region, smack in the middle of Australia’s Central Deserts, lucerne hay is produced in one of the Centre’s oldest lucerne farms, a trial plot of citrus struggles on against the challenges of the Centre and the business has diversified into transport to generate an independent income stream at a time of reduced profitability in cattle production.

Truckin’ Life’s Bruce Honeywill reports from Alice Springs in the February issue of Truckin' Life Magazine