Farm Notes
June 2017
Queens birthday weekend at the start of June always seems to herald the start of winter and this year was no exception. We were trying to get our shearing done...
June 2017
Queens birthday weekend at the start of June always seems to herald the start of winter and this year was no exception. We were trying to get our shearing done...
July 2017
July sees us settled into out winter routine – and 84mm rain gives us winter recharge – the streams are flowing and the soil moisture is at field capacity. The...
July 2017
July sees us settled into out winter routine – and 84mm rain gives us winter recharge – the streams are flowing and the soil moisture is at field capacity. The...
August 2017
While many other parts of the country are now complaining of too much rain conditions at Puketira Deer in August are superb. With only 28mm of rain over two rainfall...
August 2017
While many other parts of the country are now complaining of too much rain conditions at Puketira Deer in August are superb. With only 28mm of rain over two rainfall...
February 2018
With the wonderful rains received in January the cunning plan was to harvest all the Lucerne paddocks for pit silage at the start of February, thus ensuring we would have...
February 2018
With the wonderful rains received in January the cunning plan was to harvest all the Lucerne paddocks for pit silage at the start of February, thus ensuring we would have...
March 2018
After all the rain we had in January and February, March was a dry month with only 44mm rain (slightly less than the long term average for that month). We...
March 2018
After all the rain we had in January and February, March was a dry month with only 44mm rain (slightly less than the long term average for that month). We...
April 2018
The month started with half a day splitting firewood for the winter, its simply one of those jobs that keeps getting put off, until you realise that its very close...
April 2018
The month started with half a day splitting firewood for the winter, its simply one of those jobs that keeps getting put off, until you realise that its very close...