Mulloon Creek Natural Farms update

Summer was a mixed bag with Boxing Day bringing one of the worst floods of the Sandhills Creek we’ve seen down at Duralla which caused widespread damage to infrastructure and significant impact to our egg production. Temperatures were mild and rainfall and soil moisture was well above average which led to prolonged periods of water logging across the farms. Towards the end of February soils started to dry out and pastures grew rapidly leaving us in a good position with plenty of feed moving into the cooler months.

The abundant and green pastures have certainly been a highlight of an otherwise challenging few months. Our redevelopment program continues down at Duralla and we’re hoping to make good progress on key infrastructure upgrades with some favourable conditions forecast. More news on this soon.

We’ve been busy building new exclusion fencing and repairing damaged fences from the floods, and autumn will bring plenty of work with egg production increasing, new flocks coming into production, weaner sales and preg testing for the heifers and cows. 

In other news, our Poultry Manager, Anna Teghini, took out a swag of prizes at the Tarago Show for her homegrown, no dig vegetables! Well done Anna. 

That’s about all for now. Wishing everyone well for weaner sales, an autumn break, planting and whatever else you’ve got on in your patch this autumn. Great time of year in the Tablelands. Catch you in June.

Matt

Some of the damage from Sandhills Creek following the Boxing day flood damage.