Flood irrigation of Lucerne paddocks

Steers in the Barley (over sown on Lucerne for winter feed & silage)

Barley Silage (4’ x 4’wraps)

‘The Little League’ of black poll Angus calves lookin  for mamma!

The black cows and calves in the Pony Paddock.

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Cutting our Clover Hay—360 small squares off six acres! Now that’s organic farming!

Pressing the hay at 4.30 AM! DAYBREAK (Daylight savings time)

Steers against the strip fence—barley and Lucerne mix, now with millet over sown for summer

My trip to Melbourne to market our products (Nov 2006)

My orphan calf ‘Brutus’ - He loves milk!

Finally ‘Brutus’ gets adopted by a dairy cow

Our deep lead bore was converted to LPG from diesel—very environmentally friendly!

(That’s a Chevy 350 running the pump)

Daybreak looking east toward the Castle

Our new Lucerne paddock being irrigated for the first time. This is W595HQ seed.

The first Lucerne bursts through!

A steer gets away on his own to have the barley all to himself.

‘Zack’ our dog, inspecting the new Lucerne and hoping to chase a ‘bunny’!

This is what the property looked like when we started the organic program with BIOAG.COM.AU—our first soil test showed that the soil was ‘clinically dead’

The same paddock after one year on the BIOAG.COM.AU soil improvement program!

All we needed was to add the appropriate minerals, soil and folia sprays and the rest is history. This steer is photographed in winter, so does not have a shiny coat till spring.