What a start to the season! With 50mil falling over the past 10 days it’s still pretty soggy here. The falls have been staggered which has meant there’s been a little bit of time inbetween ‘wet stuff” to get out and about to check crops. Today I’m off to Goondiwindi to collect chemical in anticipation of spraying wheat and barley crops. The cultivations are still pretty doughy, which means our western country will be done aerially and the remainder hopefully can be accessed by ground-rig by week’s end. On the cattle front we’re waiting for roads to dry up before we can send steers over the border on agistment to a handy oats paddock – we’ve too many lollies for our shop – and there are the inevitable cows and weaners to be moved around to different paddocks. Winter herbage is in full swing with some great clover coverage, as well as natural medics springing up between the grass. Of course we’ve got no shortage of wildlife eating away at our crops. Kangaroo’s are in massive numbers this year and with cropping enterprises potentially losing up to 10% of crops to destructive kangroos and wild pigs it’s hard to keep the pests under control.

Still I’d rather be fighting with pests than not have any crop, so it’s all good at this end… for a change.