Hawthorn berries
The love these berries....and apparently the berries are very nutritional.
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The annual cycle.
We have the lower paddock fully planted, and so with some Autumn rain we have started on the front two paddocks.
Fat happy cattle
Amidst the terrible circumstances of Covid over the last 12 months, plus my ongoing health issues, La Nina (and some good farm...
Beautiful Berwick
A huge day of maintenance at Berwick yesterday. I can't resist posting some pictures of how lovely it is looking.
OK let's get going ......
I can't actually start working until March at the earliest (I have had to relearn how to walk, gradually take weight on my left hip, and...
Oats
3 photos from the last few months .... showing the wonderful rye grass / winter oats crops we had in Paddocks 1 and 2, followed by a more...
2021 (we survived!!!)
Wow. What a nightmare. COVID 19. Lockdowns for 16 weeks (luckily we were able to visit the farm, but under strict conditions). Almost...
COVID19
We are not sure how the Pandemic will affect us. To date (May) we have been able to get most jobs done, although for 6 weeks we could not...
Mechanical issues
With all the cropping attended to, we can start the annual machinery maintenance programme. JD mowers fixed, but it seems I need some...
First cold weather
We had left some lovely feed in the paddock adjacent the shed .... the cattle greatly appreciated this new feed when the first hint of...
Cropping never stops ....
As soon as the cattle had fully grazed the front two paddocks, we hoed them and planted forage rye grass and oats, plus we had planted a...
Awesome sorghum
We had our best ever sorghum crop in February / March, which the herd greatly appreciated when we let them in for grazing.
JD harvesting mowers
This picture demonstrates how we use our two JD 350R reverse discharge mowers to catch the mown grass from the front paddocks and place...
This is what 2 hours work looks like
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...
BEEF WEEK 2020
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...
Cleaning up the shed
We spent a few days cleaning up the Berwick shed.....12 years of rubbish. We filled a huge 12 square metre bin.
And then the bushfire smoke reached Melbourne.
Thankfully both farms are far away from the bushfire zone......the worst bushfires ever experienced in East Gippsland and southern NSW. ...
And then it got really cold for a day!
Early January, and we froze for a day!
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