As blackberries creep over landscapes, smothering areas with their prickly canes, a non-chemical way of dealing with them is coming back to the fore. Laurie Reed is best known as a mountain cattleman from the Delegate River region on the New South Wales/Victorian border, and also known as the captain of the Bonang Fire Brigade. A lesser-known fact is that Laurie has run goats on his farm for...
Throw away your beef hat and put on your grass hat, you’re a grass farmer more than a beef farmer. The advice was from veterinarian, consultant and beef farmer, Rod Manning, who visited East Gippsland recently, running a low-stress stockhandling workshop at Marlo and speaking in Buchan. Decision making strategies for productive farms was the topic of discussion at the Buchan meeting, where...
