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Join us in our journey to create truly mouth watering 100% Grass fed beef direct to your door from the heart of Gippsland. In this blog we will cover anything from our day to day operations, our Cattle management, Pasture improvement and much more.
At Willarah Farm we want you to feel like you have been part of our journey into producing the best beef possible with the lowest impact on the environment.
More fencing was completed over Winter, we have now finished the repairs to the boundary and divided more paddocks up to allow for longer rest periods.
Beef Week, Pasture improvement and the end of Autumn calving at Willarah Farm
Autumn is a very busy time - it’s a lot easier to get jobs done in autumn compared to the cold winter months! This season we finished calving, started repairing fences after the town was hit by a once-in-a-generation storm, sowed pasture for some winter feed, cut up lots of firewood and made sure our steers were finished off in time for processing (and snuck in a trip to Rockhampton for BeefWeek 2024).
Willarah Farm Beef blogs are back!
After a years hiatus our beef blogs are back! Life gets busy sometimes and things have to take a back seat.
Introducing BARDEE organic fertiliser.
The sun is shining and the fruit trees are in full bloom, This month we purchased a new and exciting organic fertiliser from Bardee,
Paddock renovations, Mineral supplements and an update on our Gippy dryland pasture.
August has been a busy month, there’s a hint of spring in the air and the grass has started to get moving. Time to get the paddocks freshened up for what is hopefully a cracking spring/summer.
Welcome to our new Willarah Farm Beef Blog!
The aim of this blog is to keep you, the customer informed about our day to day operations. we will cover anything from Cattle management to pasture improvement. At Willarah Farm we want you to feel like you have been part of our journey into producing the best beef possible with the lowest impact on the environment.
Holiday’s and a new toy!
After the rough 2 years everyone has faced we decided to pack up the camper and do a 3 week trip up to Mackay and back. Easy thing to do if you live in town, slightly harder thing to do on a farm in the middle of Winter when you have 33 mouths to feed twice a week. Having great neighbours and an Aunty that is willing to house sit makes things considerably easier! Before we could hit the road a few jobs needed to be sorted out and a few hurdles overcome. Keep reading to find out how we went!
Another busy month at Willarah Farm!
This month we finished the farm tracks, installed the rest of the troughs and planted 100 native trees along the ridgeline of the Hill Paddock.
Around mid April we decided to lock up our worst performing paddock and sow some Gippy Dryland from Graham’s seeds. Our aim is to improve the persistance of the more palatable species of grass into this area of Willarah Farm.
Here at Willarah Farm, we’re really feeling the impact of the dry conditions. So far, February has only brought us 23mm of rain, with the heaviest fall just 10mm in one day. That’s well below the historical February average of 56.5mm over 6.4 rainy days. Our rolling 12-month rainfall total is also sitting noticeably lower than usual at 694mm, compared to the long-term annual average for the area of 1514.6mm.