We are finally in the month of April – heading toward the halfway mark of autumn. I can’t tell you how much this excites me. I am NOT a fan of the Australian summer. Where we are in Central N.S.W. Australia, the temperature can get up to 43′ or more in the summer. Farm work is difficult to get through on days like that! This is what has happened this year. January started out great for Lansdowne Farm. It was a wet month with 129mm of rainfall recorded. Happy days. Green grass grew and flourished. The rainfall drove the lamb prices up and we sold our ewe lambs at an excellent price ; however, by the end of March- only 8 weeks later we had hardly any rain recorded (6.2mm for Feb and 21mm for March) .Grass hayed off.
This week we started feeding our sheep again -looking to top them up as they head into the breeding season .
We are hoping to plant oats and pasture and anytime from around now is ideal.
We just need rain!
Hmmm, as I look out on my brown paradise right now it just seems too much of a fantasy.
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