Farm Tender Daily

Farm Tender Daily - All the news from Wednesday, the 6th of December, 2023.

By Dwain Duxson - Click here to go to the Farmer Tender website.

7km run - I heard a talk from Liam Leneghan last week, who has a business called goFarm. They invest in and manage Farms for themselves and a group of investors. Their specialty is buying a group of rundown Farms, potentially changing up the enterprise and infrastructure and perhaps selling them off.

He was talking about this Cropping Farm they had in NSW where they ripped all the fences out and turned the whole thing into a 2 × 7km Cropping runs (14km all up) with what they called a super highway in the middle. It was a way to make the joint super efficient, he said. Not every Farm can be set up this way, but it got me thinking about how do we best set up our Farm so we can make it run at its efficient best.

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Some of the Livestock guys use a laneway system and/or have containment Feeding options for the Summer and Autumn to protect their paddocks to grow more Grass. That model would be a form of efficiency.

And thinking about it further, there is always so much more we can do to make our Farms more efficient. I guess it's weighing up the cost of it all vs the return. It's like Cropping yields; we can always keep on improving. What are some of the efficiency gains you have made on your Farm? Reply to [email protected]

@bigpond email addresses - It looks like this newsletter is back for those who have @bigpond email addresses. We are hearing of a few issues with @bigpond accounts, and it would be wise to change over to an @gmail account. Telstra has indicated they will shut down @bigpond; they just haven't said when. So our advice is to change whilst you can run a @bigpond account alongside an @gmail account, and it will give you plenty of time to transition. It would be ideal to phase the @bigpond account over, say, a six-month period after you started your @gmail account.

Discount DelayPay rates for Crop Inputs - Just a reminder that we have managed to get hold of some discounted funds leading into the summer and are able to offer a special discount rate on crop input purchases (Fertiliser, Chemicals and Seed) until the end of January. For discount rates, jump onto our website here.

Hay Report - Check out the latest Hay Report here. Hot off the keyboard today.

The Auction finished Thursday night - Check it out here.

Today’s trends - Green shoots are sprouting tillers at Ballarat ——Today’s sales trends included Tractors, Chisel Ploughs, Augers, Harrows, Discs, and Utes.

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Dwain Duxson
P - 0427 011 900
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