This picture demonstrates how we use our two JD 350R reverse discharge mowers to catch the mown grass from the front paddocks and place it in the top feeding...

Two of the bull calves were too big for my banding gun (I had let them get too big), and one had an undescended testis. So I needed to call in our wonderful...

Every time we have participated in BEEF WEEK it has been a day over 40 degrees. This has tested our resolve somewhat. Anyway, it is an interesting day and w...

We spent a few days cleaning up the Berwick shed.....12 years of rubbish. We filled a huge 12 square metre bin.

Thankfully both farms are far away from the bushfire zone......the worst bushfires ever experienced in East Gippsland and southern NSW. But eventually the s...

Early January, and we froze for a day!

It was the driest hottest December on record, during the driest hottest year on record. December was awful. Here we are trying to get the sorghum seeds up ...

With cattle deliveries about to start it is time fro brake checking, electricals adjusted and a general tidying up of the (now 12 years old) cattle trailer. ...

Spring in Berwick is wonderful, with lots of growth. The young hazelnut trees are coming along nicely.

Due to the late emergence of the oats crop (which is wonderful ... just a month late), our sorghum has been sown a few weeks later than preferable. So we ar...

Another gorgeous Spring day at Gisborne.

We are on full mowing / sowing / husbandry mode at the moment, so we need everything working at 100% efficiency. The shed looks full, but it is ordered and ...

We shall open the Gisborne farm again for Beef Week Open Day on Sunday February 2nd, 2020. Come along and have a look around!

After a very long and difficult winter, hand feeding for several months, our cropping programme is finally maturing with wonderful growth in our brassicas, o...

Chris from McIntosh Creek Lowlines in Gympie has recently sent us details and pictures of more calves on the ground from Fiddleleaf Red Ivan in the UK and New...

First shoots of Spring (even if it is still freezing cold at Berwick!)

Spring calving is underway .... two new calves already, although sadly we lost the Murray Grey / Lowline cross calf to foxes. Some years we lose one or two,...

After 11 years we have been able to purchase a new farm car ..... it is our third Landcruiser, as we have found Landcruisers indestructible on the farms. We ...

After a difficult first year .... the hottest summer recorded, plus a prolonged drought from December through May, all but one of the hazelnut trees have sur...