Hands-on learning, Longreach campus
El Pascol Studs
Manningham Station
Irrigation farm
Automotive and welding workshops
El Pascol Studs
The Longreach campus has a number of studs registered under El Pascol Stud prefix. Studs include:
- Australian Stock Horse and Quarter Horse Studs (40 brood mares)
- Santa Gertrudis Cattle Stud (160 cows)
- Poll Merino Sheep Stud (600 stud ewes)
- 150 boer goat stud does.
Students are involved in every stage of stud management including breeding, stock selection, preparation for and presentation at sales, pregnancy testing, and show conditioning.
The horse studs form the foundation of a successful horse breeding operation producing high value working, show and competition horses for the pastoral, sporting and recreational horse industry. Students gain practical horsemanship skills and proficiencies in breeding and equine health, as well a sound knowledge of business management practices.
Manningham Station
The campus’s commercial property Manningham Station is 75 kilometres northwest of Longreach and is a commercial enterprise running up to 100 head of cattle, 7500 sheep and 1500 goats.
The student skills that are enhanced at Mannigham Station include:
- chainsawing, fencing and station improvements
- grader driving
- maintain water supplies
- mustering and livestock handling
- pest management
- shearing shed skills
- sheep crutching and shearing
- sheep, goat and beef cattle husbandry
- wool handling and classing.
Irrigation farm
The irrigation farm on the banks of the Thomson River allows students to learn integral parts of irrigation farming.
Automotive and welding workshops
There is also a fully equipped automotive workshop which is set up to service and maintain a range of vehicle types including passenger vehicles, four wheel drives, tractors, trucks, buses and other equipment.
A welding workshop is attached to this facility, where many items are fabricated for use on campus.
This page was last updated 24 March 2006
