Field of Clover : Grass contest
Our grass contest video for the SpoonyOne.
Good pasture drives success
WHEN it comes to improved pasture Cumnock grazier Rob Lee knows his stuff, having sown high performance pasture based on lucerne, clover, phalaris and winter fescues about 10 years ago.“When you’re turning off young stock, 90 per cent of your production is what goes down their throat, so pastures drive my business,” he said.
Having good perennials is his recipe, practiced through his involvement with the Little River Landcare Group, with plenty of ground cover and the grasses taking up the nitrogen that lucerne and clovers produce.
“As soon as it rains, the pasture utilises the moisture and I don’t have bare paddocks being washed away.
“So I’ve got cranking hot pasture which is really important for my business.”
His business on “Coorah”, Cumnock, run with wife Kim and their family, is predominantly based on first-cross lamb production and crossbred beef cattle, with some trading of young cattle.
They have a base flock of 3500 Merino ewes, which are
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