Farm Notes

June 2016

As dryland farmers we seem to spend a lot of time talking about rainfall – especially when we are not getting enough. June was no exception – while it makes...

July 2016

We choose the coldest week of the year to take a break from Puketira Deer and spent some time on a cattle station in the Australian outback. We left behind...

August 2016

We choose the coldest week of the year to take a break from Puketira Deer and spent some time on a cattle station in the Australian outback. We left behind...

September 2016

Spring has sprung and so begins the first of the very busy months leading up to Christmas! The weather has been kind and lambing appears to have gone well apart...

October 2016

It just gets busier in October with tailing of lambs, weighing and drafting yearling deer for the works, set stocking hinds for fawning, tractor work spraying and drilling paddocks for...

November 2016

Well this is turning into a great spring – we keep receiving regular rain and the barley grass did not run to seed at the start of November as it...