Business interests keeps Michael busy

While his parents and older sisters have professional careers, Mr Mamo - who could also have gone down that track - loves agriculture, particularly cattle, and that influenced his career choices.

At age 25 he runs five rural-based businesses from his family's farm in the hills west of Kirup, south of Donnybrook.

Those businesses include three registered cattle studs - Balamara Limousin Stud, which he started when he was 14 and the family had just bought its first farm at Kirup, Balamara Angus Stud and Black Magic Lim-Flex Stud.

"Lim-Flex is a composite breed of Limousin and Angus," Mr Mamo explained.

"Both sire and dams need to be recorded with either the Limousin Society or the Angus Society respectively."

Started in 2014, his is the first, and at this stage only, registered Lim-Flex stud in WA.

"I saw an opportunity and commercial viability in Lim-Flex bulls," he said.

"The aim is for my clients to be able to increase their yield and growth trait curves while still maintaining the maternal characteristics and milking ability of the Angus breed."

Last year, Mr Mamo and his parents, John, a health sciences professor at Curtin University, and Misha, a teacher, bought Banksia Park Angus stud with the aim of rapidly increasing their Lim-Flex breeding program, alongside the Limousin stud.

"We've got a five-year plan to lift our breeder numbers to about 250 to 300," Mr Mamo said.

"My goal is to hold my own on-farm bull sale and offer 20-25 quality Limousin bulls, 15-20 Lim-Flex bulls and 15 Angus Bulls," he said.

Working towards that aim, Mr Mamo has been importing the best genetics he can find through embryo technology from Australia and throughout the world.

His ambition is to build Balamara and Black Magic genetics into the most elite in WA.

Mr Mamo's parents and sisters - one sister Kristen is also a teacher and she, her teacher husband and her mother, are all now at Kent Street Senior High School, East Victoria Park, while her other sister Josephine is a lawyer - are helping him fulfil his dream.

"They all come down from Perth just about every weekend to help out," he said.

"Once a month we have a family meeting - we keep proper minutes and everything - about what we're doing."

As well as the studs, Mr Mamo, a qualified light-vehicle mechanic who completed a 3.5-year apprenticeship in just over two years with a Certificate IV in automotive advanced diagnostics, has two businesses of his own.

In between looking after about 120 breeders spread over three local properties, he runs Balamara Transport, a hay-carting and stock transport business, and Balamara Mobile Mechanical.

While attending Trinity College in Perth, he "double-loaded" in Years 11 and 12 to complete his tertiary entrance examinations and a Certificate III in Agriculture, completing his traineeship at Murdoch University's farm.

He credits his mother with encouraging him to take on a mechanical second string to his agricultural bow.

"Mum always wanted me to have a back up and she encouraged me to do the (mechanic) apprenticeship," he said.

Raised in the suburbs of Perth, Mr Mamo also credits his mother for his interest in cattle.

"Mum taught ag at Kelmscott Senior High School for 12 years and when I was a little tacker I'd go along and help her - I loved it," he said.

"I'd get to go to the Perth Royal Show each year with her to help out."

Under his mother's supervision and instruction he led his first steer in competition at the Perth Royal Show at age six.

He has maintained his interest in showing and judging cattle, with Balamara Limousin Stud winning the Supreme Limousin Exhibit for the past two years at the Royal.

"I've had a lot of fantastic opportunities provided through the show ring and also won many personal junior judging and parader's awards.

"I've also been invited to judge various country shows throughout the State," he said.

For three years he was president of the annual WA Youth Cattle Handlers' Camp which hosts more than 100 students varying in age from eight to 25.

His first full-time job was on a farm, as a technical officer training students at Bindoon Catholic Agriculture.

In 2013 Mr Mamo joined Murdoch University as a senior farm hand and overseer after the university entered a long-term lease with the National Trust WA of the heritage-listed 203 hectare Whitby Falls farm property, which dates back to 1848, in Serpentine Jarrahdale shire.

Used as a mental health facility, Whitby Falls had not been farmed for nearly 13 years when Mr Mamo went there as part of a $3 million project to restore and return it to a productive farm.

When his 12-month contract with the university ended he headed for Canada and America to take some time out and research new genetics for his growing Limousin stud.

During this time he worked on Meadow Acre Farms in Lampman, Saskatchewan, helping with the harvest and also with a 300-cow Simmental stud enterprise.

Mr Mamo returned in September 2014, just in time to exhibit his Limousin cattle at the Perth Royal Show.

Since then he has settled on the family farm at Kirup running a seven-day-a-week operation.

"I'm up before dawn to tend to the cattle, then I work in my transport or mobile mechanic businesses and then check the cattle and do what has to be done when I get back home," he said.

"This time of year I finish after dark so it's a long day, but I love it."