• Need assistance with your Wheat, Canola, Barley, Oats or Sorghum crops?
• Want advice on Soil Health, Pasture Improvement, Chemical Usage or Climate Variability?
• Help with Grazing Management and Planning?
• Assistance tending livestock – Cattle, Horses or Sheep?
• Weekly Inspections of Livestock, Water, Fences and Homestead.
• Beef, Sheep,Wool, and Prime Lamb Production.
• Property Maintenance – Lawns, Gardens and Fertilizing.
• Looking for property advice or expert opinion on a prospective land sale?
• Crop and Pasture Establishment and Maintenance
• Pasture and Soil Improvement
• Grazing Planning and Management
• Purchase and Marketing of Livestock
• Property Maintenance
• Property Selection, Purchase or Sale
The key to successful crop and pasture establishment and maintenance is forward planning and attention to detail.
Take advantage of over 40 years of practical experience in growing award-winning crops, as well as pasture management and production of market topping animals.
Clients get expert advice on the best approaches in managing the establishment and maintenance of crops and pastures to achieve maximum productivity.
With early intervention, potential problems from weed infestation and disease outbreak can be identified and controlled in a timely manner, before they potentially impact not only your crops and pastures but those of neighbouring properties.
Planning the grazing management of animals on crops and pastures is imperative in the sustainability and productivity of your farming and grazing business.
With a holistic approach to managing the land, maximum production can be achieved, while maintaining a healthy resource base by matching carrying capacity to actual precipitation and weather conditions.
It is important when owning a rural enterprise to maintain animal health and welfare by the control of disease, weed burden, as well as protection and maintenance of water resources and avoiding land degradation.
Remaining open to and aware of alternative marketing options is crucial to your success.
Get expert assistance to optimise the successful purchase and marketing of beef cattle and prime lamb for your agricultural enterprise.
Producers should regularly evaluate opportunities depending on changes in seasonal and marketing conditions.
Maximising returns when livestock are sold is a key determinant of profitability.
Regular property inspection and maintenance is imperative and will substantially increase the value of your rural asset.
It is important to make your rural property a safe living and working environment.
Services include:
• General caretaking of property and livestock
• Regular scheduled inspections of properties
• Herbicide applications if required
• Fence maintenance, including conventional and electric fencing
• Mowing and slashing
• Organizing haymaking and the clearing of vegetation.
Services also include the preparation of properties for sale or lease.
The number of investors purchasing rural property is increasing and buying a rural property is a major investment. It is important to ensure your property is chosen carefully.
Understanding the rural environment, matching a property to suit your particular needs and guiding you through the selection and purchasing process, are all critical when undertaking such a large investment.
You need to consider the time, money, effort and experience required in assessing appropriate agricultural land.
Clients benefit from our vast experience in agriculture, as well as the peace of mind that comes from dealing with a licenced Real Estate and Stock and Station Agent.
- Owned two properties totalling 860 hectares of mixed farming – highly productive cropping and grazing.
- Produced prime lamb, beef and wool.
- Diverse crops grown included sorghum, wheat, canola, barley and oats.
- Soil health and grazing management resulted in award winning crops and market topping livestock.
- Farms were regularly used as demonstration sites for seed and fertilizer companies and by local agronomists for experimental work.
- With planned grazing, improving the health of pastures and livestock consistently high calving rates well above 90% were achieved, with weight gains in grower animals in excess of 1kg per day.
- High yielding crops from careful rotations were acheived, with continued success in cropping competitions, particularly sorghum and canola (above average yields in excess of 8 tonnes/ha in sorghum and 2.5 tonnes/ha in canola).
Key areas of Expertise
• Soil health
• Chemical use
• Mixed cropping with sound rotations
• Sheep – wool production and prime lamb production
• Beef production – breeding and finishing
• Planned grazing to improve the health of pastures and livestock
• Increasing organic carbon levels (achieved greater than 1.0% per annum)
• Assistance with budgets (retail management background)
• Licensed Real Estate Agent
• Licenced Stock and Station Agent
Community Involvement
- Board Member Orana Area Consultative Committee (a federally funded regional development andcommunity grants facilitation)
- Chairman – NSW Farmers Association (Cassilis Branch)
- Chairman – Coolah District Development Group
- Chairman – “Jazz in the Tops”. A successful event attracting 1500 people to the concerts
- Secretary – Coolah Polocrosse Club
- Captain – Vinegeroy Bushfire Brigade