Libby Skilbeck, cattle manager at Alpine Angus at Porepunkah, will be our next speaker on Tuesday June 6 at 10am in Classroom 1.
David
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This month eight of us visited Peter Holmes' sheep farm off the Benalla to Badaginnie road. Peter runs about 3200 Merino ewes producing about 4000 lambs annually. A superior NZ made sheep handler places individual sheep to be weighed or rotated to almost any position for treatment like drenching, ear tagging or dagging. That makes handling of even the biggest sheep not at all exhausting. Similarly, he has equipped his shearing shed with air conditioning for shearers and wool handlers, which is pretty unusual. When Peter asked a shearer what he thought of the aircon, the reply was, “About time”. We also saw a pretty new 12.5mm a turn centre pivot irrigation system, which draws water from a hole which yielded 100,000 cubic metres of gravel when the Hume Freeway was duplicated. A seasonal pumping licence enables Peter to pump into the dam from the adjacent Four Mile Creek.
Libby Skilbeck, cattle manager at Alpine Angus at Porepunkah, will be our next speaker on Tuesday June 6 at 10am in Classroom 1. David
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