DIVERSIFICATION and new beginnings is the way forward for Kilto station, Broome.
Yeeda Pastoral Company has a beef cattle herd of 80,000 head in the Kimberley, including on Kilto station, about 50 kilometres north of Broome.
Jack and Vicki Burton purchased the station in the early 1990s, before buying Yeeda station and other stations in the North.
Kilto has diversified from a horticultural and cattle business into a feedlot and cattle business.
Kilto also has a lease for 500 hectares of irrigation used to grow fodder crops for cattle in the feedlot, which is used before they are exported.
Over the past three months the station's feedlot has ramped up, getting cattle ready to process through the new Kimberley Meat Company abattoir, which opened on Friday.
Feedlot managers Caitlin U'Ren and Ben Mills, who reside at Kilto station, have been busy with more than 3000 cattle on feed in the yards and a further 500 head on feed troughs, from more than 22 stations across WA's north.