Our 5 paddocks have all now been power harrowed, sown down and rolled.
Since sowing our final pastures , our area has had no rain to germinate the seed.
The first pasture sown about 3 weeks ago, did receive 3mls of rain soon after sowing.
Overlooking first paddock renovated
As a consequence of the drought conditions, we have been inundated with crickets who are eating the new seed and anything that has shot is being attacked by grass hoppers.
We have now baited for the crickets and hope to see a reduction in their numbers in the next few days.
Only a good rain and drop in temperature will get rid of the grass hoppers
The soil temperature is around 18 degrees still and with warm days forecast ahead (today is 27 degrees) only a downpour of rain would make a big improvement.
With the warm weather forecast, we have set up our travelling irrigator,again, which had been put away for the Season.
We will only water existing pasture to give us a bit of a feed wedge until the new pastures are ready to use. The irrigator is working from our Effluent Pond, the contants of which will give a boost to our paddocks
.Effluent Pond & Irrigator in distance
The warmer April weather is also allowing the cattle to hold their condition without too much supplimentary hay.
Overlooking first paddock renovated
Effluent Pond & Irrigator in distance