Andrew Mosely has been managing Etiwanda Station near Cobar for close to thirty years. The country he runs is red, sandy, scrubby and variable. It's the kind of place people look at and wonder why you'd bother.

But Andrew has watched it change. Slowly, and then noticeably.

"It is fragile country, but it just needs the right management and it responds.”

In this episode of Stockyard Sessions, he talks through what it took to get the landscape moving in the right direction and what three decades of close observation has taught him about how that country behaves. He walks through the mistakes, the drought that forced a complete rethink of the business, and what he's learned about giving land the time it needs to recover.

He touches on the role of genetics. Breeding animals in their home environment, selecting under your own conditions, and how that compounds over time in ways that are hard to fully account for but impossible to ignore.

"What's kept me going is that deep connection to the land. When you start to see it move forward and thrive and respond, it just makes you so excited."

Learn more about Etiwanda Station here