The Browns have built some of the most significant water infrastructure in the northern pastoral industry and their bold cattle management strategy allows them to run more cattle without degrading the land. Within three years at Amungee Mungee, carrying capacity increased from 2,600 cattle in a normal season to over 40,000.
When upgrading their water management, Adrian and Emma were unhappy with the quality of polythene pipe and concrete troughs being brought up from southern states, so they decided to build their own. They'd also seen the limited options for products to build up infrastructure on Ms Brown's family property Beetaloo Station on the edge of the Barkly Tableland.
The products were then in such demand from pastoralists and the mining sector that the Browns opened a factory and large extrusion shed in Darwin to bring all of their manufacturing into one location, motivated by a desire to show the rest of the country what can be done in northern Australia if the right investment is made.
"I'd like to be able to say we were part of that, to make the north a better place for not just us but for everyone else who lives in the north and that everyone is prosperous out of it," - Adrian Brown
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