Another week has gone so quickly as it does this time of year. Dan spent the first part of the week away on his second block release of the Rural Traineeship, which gave me time to finish the fallow spray…
April is here
So, its the start of April. April and May are critical months for us on the farm – so lets take stock of where we are. We have had one of the most unusual late summer/early autumn periods in many…
Week 4, March 2014
Things are getting interesting down on the farm… We are really only another week or so from our planned sowing date. Most things are in place. This week (tuesday) we took delivery of the last load of fertiliser which we…
Week 1, March 2014
Its been a few days since the last post, so I thought I should left you know whats been happening. As mentioned in the previous post, we had received (as some might say) an ‘elegant sufficiency’ of rain. I would…
Rain in feb
In my last post, I mentioned that we would resume grain carting as soon as the rain cleared. I need to revise that statement… We will resume grain carting when it dries out enough. It is Saturday morning and overnight…
Another day in paradise
Todays job was to meet with our truck drivers and move grain from our Silo bags in the paddock to our new grain shed. The grain shed was finished yesterday and we really needed to get the bags out of…
Feb 15-16 2014
Rain across NSW. We received a very gentle 18ml over the farm. Rain at this time of year is a funny one. Because we have no significant stock, rain at this time time is more about building up moisture reserves…