Karoonda Farm Fair proved to be a good opportunity to showcase our sheep and promote the attributes and benefits of the Dohne breed. We also caught up with a number of our clients from the area. We took 3 ewe lambs and a grown ram for display. The ewe lambs were only taken out of […]

March has been a busy month both on and off the farm. Allen attended the Leading Breeder Forum in Melbourne. This was hosted and run by Sheep Genetics Australia. It was both informative and motivational and also a good opportunity to learn from breeders of Terminal and Maternal rams. We shore our mature ewes the

The rains keep coming. Summer forage planted on 18th January is looking good by mid-February. The high selection pressure for fleece characteristics relating to summer rains have shown us how good the vast majority of our ewes are at coping without the use of chemicals to prevent flystrike and fleece rot. Genetic resistance is always

Continuing rains slowed harvest down early this month; following rain events in December. We almost finished on January 12th, but were just two hours short when 13mm of rain came again. The next Monday was dry, allowing us to complete the task. With yet another significant rain event forecast for the Thursday, we planted a

The long growing season meant that the majority of our haymaking happened in December. We also sold and delivered our surplus, old proven breeding ewes to clients just before we were able to begin harvesting grain crops. We sold wool in the final sale for 2016 and were delighted with the results. Harvesting of our

The last month of Spring completed a good growing season for the year, with plenty of feed to be carried over through the dry months expected in summer and autumn. We completed delivery of rams to clients, classing and crutching our breeding ewes, classing client’s hogget ewes, shearing our 2016 drop lambs, selecting ewes for

We get a great deal of pleasure when our clients do well with their livestock. One of our long term clients recently offered 1,200 wether lambs on Auctions plus, and was happy with the result. For the second year in a row, another client of ours bought a line of these; they had finished very

Lotting order and details of Sale rams went out early in the month as promised. Strong winds and heavy rain disrupted preparations for sale day. It certainly was a challenging month. Indeed the whole year has been a difficult time for sheep; especially young ones. Most producers in South Australia observed dry conditions in autumn,

We are part way through the process of determining our line-up of sale rams, and offering of commercial ewe hoggets. As soon as we are able we will be making the lot order and ram details available

July has been a busy month for the team at Glen Holme. We have continued our seeding program, marking another drop of lambs, as well as welcoming visitors to look at our sheep from the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of Chile and Argentina. Allen joined the pre-conference tour as part of the Global