Broadacre Farm
The Broadacre enterprise is the largest farm enterprise, utilising approximately 1500 hectares. Broadacre includes cropping, beef and sheep operations as well as dry feed if seasonal conditions permit (then around 600 round bales of hay are cut). Pasture consists of a mixture of native annual and perennial grasses and lucerne.
Cropping
Approximately 700 ha of cereal and oilseed crops are planted each year. These include wheat, triticale, canola and barley. All crops are either direct drilled or sown in a minimum tillage program. On average the wheat crops yield an average of 4.8 tonne per hectare, canola averages 2.2 tonne per hectare and barley 3.5 tonne per hectare.
Beef Cattle
The beef cattle enterprise is a self replacing Angus herd that are either sold as feedlot feeder steers to the domestic market or kept as replacement heifers. All cows are joined to trait recorded Angus Bulls. The herd currently consists of 40 breeder cows, 29 replacement heifers and five bulls.
Sheep
The self-replacing Merino flock is managed to achieve 5,000 sheep with 19 micron wool. Lambing is in early spring, with all sheep shorn in March. Lambs wool yields an average of 16.3 mircron. Merino ewes are also crossed with terminal rams for the fat lambs market.