Learning Experiences

Today held a lot of new things to learn for me. In a season like we have at the moment the early break has left us with lots of pasture and healthy stock. So what do we do with the pasture we can't graze? Do we buy more sheep? Do we rotate grazing? Do we put more crop in? Or do we improve some of the pastures that aren't performing as well? 

Well we can do all of the above! So today was spent seeding ryegrass and oats into gravel hills that germinated early and died off before the rain continued. Spreading clover, ryegrass and kikuyu grass across some wet patches of cropping country that are dry enough to get to at the moment. We then harrowed it in. 

Every day we learn new things on the land. Today I experienced what I've been told a thousand times. Every time you cultivate the soil you lose so much of the moisture content. It's visibly drier each time you work the same piece of land. 

Harrowing.

The darker patch is where the moisture has been moved to the top by the harrowing. It'll be drier than the rest in no time!