It can’t get any busier than May on a farm. The season is changing and the days vary in temperature from an average max of 20º and minimum average of 2º. There are days that are so glorious you just want to put your back to the sun and soak it up. Other days there is a cold wind that blows right up you spine and you just need to be indoors.
Indoors is not where our farmers are spending their time in May. The April lambs are getting bigger and stronger and the mothering ewes need more nutrition than they can usually find in the paddock. It is most often the case that the oats that were sown earlier to meet this demand are not ready to have 100s of hungry mouths feeding on it. May is often quite dry and the roots of the oats just don’t have enough hold in the ground for grazing. It is a good practise to wait until after rain before the oats are opened up for feed.
In the mean time daily feeding is often a necessary. Dry feed and grain depending on the circumstances are used to supplementary feed the ewes. If you are lucky enough to have lucerne hay from last seasons cut or some stored grain the sheep will look forward to your daily deliveries.
As soon as the first good rain fall in May arrives it is time to start sowing cereal grain. Our plan this year is to plant a new variety of wheat along with seed that we have kept over from last harvest. Approximately 700ha will be sown over a period of 2 weeks. Posted bytimetbhPosted inUncategorizedLeave a commenton A change of seasonEditA change of season
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