🌾Ever wondered what goes into getting accurate fodder analysis results? Here’s a Quick look at our sampling and testing process. 🌾 We test every crop in every paddock each year because results can vary widely - not just between seasons, but even within the same crop across different paddocks. By understanding these details, we’re able to recommend the best feed for your animals, tailored to their nutritional needs. 🐴🐮🐐🐑 #fodder #australianagriculture #southaustralia #ichoosesa #laminitis #farming #supportlocal #equestrianaustralia
The worst paddock of Oaten hay on the farm. So pleased it’s not all like this. Even Floss is less than impressed
2024 Season Update - oaten hay
2024 Season Update - wheaten hay
Cutting our wheaten hay at Pinkerton today. Yields down by half on an average year. Still good colour, taste and sugars in the hay, nice fine stalk with but reduced leaf and bulk with heads blighted off in patches across the paddock. Due to reduced yields we won’t have any rolls of hay to sell from this harvest. #southaustralia #agricultureaustralia #fodder
This is our Late Meadow Hay, and this is heartbreaking!
We won’t even be able to cut this paddock. It’s too short.
SEASONAL UPDATE
We will not have enough hay to be able to sell any rolls this year (or next)
We will have plenty of chaff to sell at Farmgate Fodder, small squares and pellets.
Yields will be down across the board, and there may be limits on small bale purchases all year.
Hay prices will not go down, and will likely increase.
I’m calling it! I think this will be the driest year on record, and improved modern farming practices are the reason we have this cover on the ground.
To add to drought, cropping areas across the state have also experienced widespread and devastating frosts. Consequently many bearded wheat crops have been cut for hay.
We have been advising and assisting our customers over the last four or so months to modify their horses ration for this eventuality.
With the dry start to the season, and the signs a few months ago that this year may not be great, we were aiming to keep our customers supplied with hay to within a month if new seasons (originally Nov). We actually have achieved that, and would like to sincerely thank our regular and loyal customers for your support. You will always be our priority.
Spring Cleaning Sale at Farmgate Fodder.
Spring Cleaning @ Farmgate Fodder
Grab some great deals on feed!
Another Value Meadow Bundle for a pampered horse and happy customer. To order your bundle with our meadow or new seasons hay head to our online store https://lowefarms.ag/shop/
Congratulations to Lindy Menadue winning $150 worth of Lowe Farms Hay & Chaff, and David Heinjus who has won a $50 Farmgate Fodder Voucher.
🐭Another pallet of our specially developed New Holland Native Mouse Bedding is on it’s way to the Australian National University in Canberra.🐭
#ouranu is doing incredible work by breeding these endangered marsupials in captivity, with the goal of restoring and preserving genetic biodiversity and releasing them into areas where they have become locally extinct.
#captivebreeding #conservation #reintroduction #marsupial #beddingstraw