Oxford is our new Huntaway pup on the farm, he is nearly 11 weeks old here and has a big puppy playpen with a grass base to play safely in and watch Farm life happening around him. He watches with great interest the cows brought to the cow shed for milking and all visitors to and from the farm. Its very important he has a lot of interaction right from when he is very little so he is well socalized with all the other dogs and animals and various visitors to the farm so he lear

Sunflowers are a highly versatile crop and thrive in hot dry conditions, They are an excellent source of nutrients and the entire plant is highly palatable to livestock. Due to their deep tap root they help to aerate the soil, improve drainage and gain acess to deeper nutrients and minerals that are just below the root structure of grasses. They are also able to clean the soil of contaminents like a build up of heavy metals through phytoremediation. The large flower is highly

We have been busy cutting Baylage and Silage for winter food and also some extra because its been a dryer Summer than normal for us. But we did have quite a bit of rain last night which is the best Christmas present for the farm. So our winter crop of Swede & Kale is coming along well from the recent rain. We moved this seasons Calves up to a runoff block we have just up the road and we will cut Hay later in January and we also cut the Calf paddocks on the Dairy platform for

There is always something going on at the Farm and the last couple of months have been particularly busy, Weaning Calves (our little replacement babies are doing very well and we like to wean at a very healthy 110-120kg to give them a fantastic start in life which sets them up well), Artificial Insemination of the two herds over November and then the Wagyu bulls go out with the herds at the end of November when AI is finished. We planted our winter crops of Kale & Swede and d

Healthy Cows are grown from healthy Calves, the first start a Calf gets in life is incredibly important in determining how they will...

First Baby Mob of replacement Heifers outside in their paddock with North facing shelter at the back of the paddock. We have been...

Farmer Shayne feeding some silage out to some Wagyu Beef on the way to feed the Cows. Did you know that Milk is not only in Dairy...

Fonterra our Millk Supply Company has recently announced they will be rewarding more environmentally sustainable farms for lower...

(photo of last years calves growing well on one of our runoffs close to the home farm) We finish milking our cows in the first week of...

Starting new dogs in farm work is always interesting and each pup requires a flexible approach depending on their intelligence and how...

We are very aware of our carbon foot print on the farm so Reducing waste brought onto the farm is very important to us, we are always...

After a fairly dry start to summer with the strong possibility of a drought....we later had some reasonable sprinkles of rain which was...

Bees are incredibly important, there are over 20,000 species worldwide and they are the biodiversity we depend on for our survival. By...

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us all on the farm. Christmas is still a fairly busy time, there is...

Early December is when we get contractors in to make high quality Silage. Silage is pickled pasture which is created when the grass is...

AI has started on the 1st of Nov (Artificial Insemination) some of the cows are artificially inseminated to ensure a more specific...

Each year we put in Kale & Swede mixed crops to feed our cows over the winter months when they are not milking but the grass isn't...

Each time a tanker collects milk from our farm there are many automatic tests done on the quality of the milk. SSC is measured in the...

The first herd replacement mob is outside in a large 2ha grass paddock with North facing shelters to keep them warm and dry. The shelters...

Once there is a big enough group of calves all drinking well, its time to get them drinking on a larger 50 teat feeder and then they can...