Variable autumn winter rain opens opportunities for pasture renovation while wildlife road kills continue due to lack of interest in lowering the default 100km per hour speed limit through the Moffats lane wildlife hotspot.
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Diversified clover herb ryegrass pastures need specific management to maintain composition, livestock performance and lower methane emissions.
Read More2020 rainfall has been consistently close to or above average each month ensuring optimum pasture growth and ewe fertility ensuring a record high lamb marking and weaning percentage.
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Multi-species perennial grasses, herbs and legumes are being planted on Moffitts Farm to produce year round green, high quality, and persistent pastures.
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A late autumn break had implications for pasture growth and subsequently the lamb numbers available for Meat Smith. Despite the late break ewe condition was maintained on pastures through mating and pregnancy without supplementary feeding.
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Brassica has been demonstrated as the most cost effective pasture species for finishing heavy trade lambs over summer, autumn and winter on Moffitts Farm. The alternatives such as supplementary feeding lambs with pasture silage, lucerne silage or pellets are in our experience more expensive per kg dry matter fed, more labour time consuming and result in more variable lamb growth rate performance.
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The nine months from 1 July 2014 to 1 April 2015 have been unprecedented in terms of low rainfall and frequency of falls since we started our holistic grazing program in 2000.
Read MoreAn update on Moffitts Farm in May 2014. Our “comfortable farming” system demonstrated resilience under the lowest summer rainfall we have experienced since we started it in 2000.
Read MoreEvery so often we like to trial some fertilisers, soil ameliorants and soil biological stimulants. Whether organic or inorganic, soil health and pasture growth additives come with recommendations to add more every year. I have never seen a manufacturer recommend not to add a product because it might not be needed in healthy soils.
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Moffitts Farm has been used for trialing pasture varieties and grazing methods since 1993. The evolution of management methods developed into the concept we call “Comfortable Farming” – farming that is comfortable for the livestock, comfortable for the biodiversity and comfortable for the family.
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Moffitts Farm first thunderstorm rain for the summer happened over 36 hours on 26 to 28 February. A total of 67 mm fell in two torrential downpours. Prior to this fall summer rain totaled 15 mm in December, 2 mm in January and 16 mm in February.
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The “comfortable farming” program on Moffitts Farm is coping well with the extended dry season and high temperatures through summer 2012/13.
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On Moffitts Farm holistic grazing management was introduced in 2000. It followed a six year period trialing high fertiliser input and high pasture utilization management under the Triple P program.
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