It’s time once again to sit down and think about what’s happened since the last blog (a bit hard for us older people). So what has happened? Well first off the weather gods were in a good mood and the rain came at the right time so we could milk on into May. This seemed […]
It’s gypsy weekend, another time of chaos and mayhem for farmers moving onto new ventures, either to other farms or moving on to another stage of life outside farming. We are experiencing a taste of this ourselves this weekend as Bernard moves into a new sharemilking venture, oh so exciting and maybe a bit scary […]
Five months ago we had a friendly call from our local Agritrade rep Shannon Patterson wanting to know if we were interested in taking part in a mineral trial in our young stock, knowing that we should be doing more monitoring and trying to grow our young stock better we decided to give it a […]
Since the last time we wrote, we have had a massive flood yet again on the farm! Unfortunately it’s the new grass paddocks so we have had to re-sow these paddocks and wait again for the growth – grrrrr. We have had many many, many, meetings with the council; both with the community and as […]
Time flies when you are having fun. And even more so when you are not. Things on farm are still quite hectic. Seems like it takes all day just to get the essentials done. Add in meetings and off farm activities there seems to be very little time left to do the jobs I wanted […]
A two week family holiday in early April certainly had its merits for us this year. Great times, building memories as a family and visiting some well-known places in the western United States. However, the thrill of coming home to green grass and lifting covers certainly added a buzz to what is normally a bit […]
New run off After many, many, many years of looking and putting offers in and signing contracts only to have them fall over (not from our side) we have secured a run-off and we paid the deposit on Monday. Mrs. Frostie can now get rid of all those newspapers lying around, and all those real estate […]
Well, since my last blog things on farm have had a bit of a shake-up. Mainly because my 2IC has resigned and finished work on the 30th March due to family health issues and the distance between our farm and the hospital. We wish him and his family all the best for the future. So […]
Howdy all, This blog finds us having had the rain we wanted and grass cover starting to improve. To help speed up the increase in cover we have slowed the rotation to around 50 days. We have increased the amount of supplement we’re feeding the cows to cover the decrease in pasture. Unfortunately it looks like the […]
Today is Saturday the 7th of March and the dark clouds that have been looming all day have started to deliver the long awaited, overdue and very welcome rain that is so sorely needed for our parched countryside, as no rain to speak of has fallen here since early February. Yes, the dry weather has […]