With the dry conditions still continuing, work on our farm has moved up a couple of gears.
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With all ewes starting to lamb, the job of feeding them three times a week only leaves me with two spare days to catch up on other work.
Trail feeding, with wheat and a mixture of lupins and beans, sees most mobs in really good condition.
Every second ewe seems to have twins following her, so we will see a massive population explosion in the next three to four weeks.
A nice paddock or two of green feed wouldn’t go astray but if we can’t have that at least the weather is very mild and warm. And with the good prices for lambs, mutton, and wool, it makes the extra cost and work of feeding them worthwhile.
- Greg McDonald
A nice paddock or two of green feed wouldn’t go astray but if we can’t have that at least the weather is very mild and warm.
And with the good prices for lambs, mutton and wool, it makes the extra cost and work of feeding them worthwhile.
We have had the air seeder moving for the past two weeks solid, with clover, oats and now canola all being sown dry.
By this weekend we should nearly be finished the canola and hopefully get some of the predicted rain to get things up and growing.
So with the sowing at nearly halfway, we will have only wheat and barley left to put in.
With the lack of rain being experienced everywhere, cereal prices and hay on farm are going up every day.
I have almost sold all of the grain and hay on farm, which is very good for cash flow this time of year.
Normally we are still selling well into September or October.
We are hoping for a much wetter month ahead.
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