First off – thanks to Christine Cameron, we can start off with a selection of photos from the 2021 Manawatu Tour – great memories! We are still waiting, waiting for autumn rain here… but Northland had a good 90mls before our visit, so we saw some enviable autumn feed –
At last, here we go with the summer news, just ahead of autumn. We had a great spring here, probably the best for rainfall and grass growth in the 32 years we have been here.. followed by 6 hot dry weeks… just before we had to think about feeding out,
Spring News 2021 At last I have some ducks-in-a-row to get a long overdue Newsletter under way.. Lockdown should make it easy to fit in, with a lot of clutter taken out of our weeks – but we end up quickly refocusing on the farm stuff. I’m getting a jump
Finally getting into print with our Summer news – as usual, different weather patterns from top to bottom – mostly dry or very dry in the north; John Gerke reports good rain and growth in the Manawatu, while John Harvie went from very dry to flood in the Nenthorn, over