Hay maker in Piallamore, New South Wales, Australia | Farm

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Locality: Piallamore, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 439 424 215

Address: 931 Nundle Road 2340 Piallamore, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 Sudan forage crop.

24.01.2022 Especially brewed for us.........

23.01.2022 and the haymaker gets up all hours of the night to make the hay for the cows to make the milk for your coffee...... enjoy!

22.01.2022 Cindy Fitzgerald not waiting for the next hay shortage........ delivery by McDonald Bros Nemingha.

22.01.2022 First cut lucerne, soft leafy and clean 25 kg bales $18 plus gst

22.01.2022 Peel River snaking it’s way through the Peel Valley towards Tamworth. The valley alluvium flats are normally green as far as you can see, and a great source of lucerne hay. Our property in the foreground with windrows of hay around the river.

21.01.2022 It’s about as good as it gets, now the challenge of trying to make some hay out of it.....could be awhile?

19.01.2022 ‘Non-Pareil’ Piallamore via Tamworth North West NSW Lucerne Hay and White Suffolk Sheep Stud

15.01.2022 Finally received favourable moisture profiles to confidently plant lucerne. The old lucerne paddocks are shot! Looking forward to producing lots of fine stemmed bales of prime lucerne hay come October.

15.01.2022 Sudan grass with a string a haylage bales in the background. Should make top hay if the weather ever comes good to make it.

14.01.2022 Small bales of superdan heading for the hayshed. 25 kgs nice cow hay $12 plus gst

13.01.2022 Hay making time nearly here again, the paddocks are looking as good as we have ever seen them! Lucerne Oaten Wheaten and Ryegrass hay available soon in small and large bales. Hay of sorts is easy to make but if you want quality hay buy from experienced specialty farmers. This is season number 39 here for us at Non-Pareil.

13.01.2022 The price of hay! There’s a few factors like supply and demand, the cost of production and a margin necessary to keep the farm viable and the quality of the hay. Unfortunately most people see hay in the shed not the arduous process of how it got there.... It starts usually on expensive real estate with expensive infrastructure and machinery. It needs a successful establishment of a crop in unknown weather conditions with some irrigation infrastructure and experience to make it grow, then protect it from insects and add fertilizer. It needs a person willing to keep tractors, mowers, balers, pick up machines in good working order so when the dew falls at any time between sundown and sunup he needs to be ready and so confidently bale in a usually small time period when moisture content is acceptable and forfeited his nights sleep to get it right. Then it’s picked up and stored in a shed. Sometimes, as like the last few years productivity is way back but expenses are the same if not more due to labour and extra watering, fortunately demand drives prices up which compensates then we have years same process but sits in the shed ....... no income. Good years bad years....... that’s the risk we take!

11.01.2022 Finally we have good stocks of hay available after years of short supplies. The Peel Valley alluvium flats are producing lucerne, the king of fodders , like they are renowned for.

11.01.2022 Load of hay from Victoria to help satisfy demand from our clients. These dry times are unprecedented in the 38 years we have been making hay here at Piallamore with trucks such as this in seemingly constant convoy on our highways from as far away as WA for near three years now.

11.01.2022 We’re away..........

09.01.2022 This could take a while to dry out!

09.01.2022 63 big bales ‘Non-Pareil’ lucerne heading for Northern Tablelands. Good idea getting it while you can and not waiting for the next dry spell.

08.01.2022 First cut lucerne, clean leafy 25 kg bales. $18 + gst

07.01.2022 The last of our sowing in preparation for a bumper spring, fingers crossed.

05.01.2022 Might have some surplus small bales if your interested, 22/25 kg $18 plus..... rye and lucerne

04.01.2022 We have good stands of new lucerne, so if you need high quality 25 kg lucerne hay contact us to order. Lucerne hay rivals costly supplement diets 13 October 2020... Agriculture Victoria scientists have shown that using lucerne hay as a feed supplement can improve the productivity and nutritional value of sheep meat in a changing climate. Agriculture Victoria scientist Eric Ponnampalam said this latest research further confirms more than a decade of studies that demonstrate adding lucerne to sheep diets provides a host of benefits. 'This research is the first in the world to prove a diet supplemented with lucerne hay is equal to a feedlot diet,' Dr Ponnampalam said. 'Climate change is causing the yield, persistence and nutritive value of pastures to decline in many parts of southern Australia, particularly during the summer and autumn months.' Supplementing diets with cereal grains, legume seeds or concentrates over summer and autumn can maintain animal growth rates during periods when pastures are sparse. However, supplements are costly and may cause digestive problems such as acidosis or bloating unless appropriate feeding strategies are maintained. Dr Ponnampalam said this project compared feeding a low-energy diet supplemented with lucerne hay to a high-energy diet supplemented with a barley-oat grain mix, to both crossbred and Merino sheep. The results demonstrated that using lucerne hay rather than grains as a supplement had a range of advantages and didn’t negatively affect liveweight or carcass weight at slaughter of both breeds. 'Lucerne hay is a win-win. It maintained the animal’s body weight equal to the grain diet and was better at both providing essential nutrients and preserving the meat’s red colour,' Dr Ponnampalam said. 'Colour is very important, as consumers don’t buy meat that has turned brown the cuts are immediately removed from retail display and turned into mince or go on sale. 'Our findings offer farmers a cheaper, home-grown solution to maintaining year-round productivity on-farm, particularly when faced with the impacts of climate change on their feedbase.' Dr Ponnampalam said farmers can harvest lucerne in spring, store it as a hay or silage, and subsequently feed to livestock in summer and autumn when required. Therefore, farmers can sell larger carcasses at a lesser expense. 'Lucerne is also easier for farmers to store than grain, and it can improve soil fertility via nitrogen fixation when used as a rotational crop.'

03.01.2022 Trying something new to help speed up the hay drying process with a Tedder on a ryegrass crop. Thanks to our new neighbour Stuart for the demo.

01.01.2022 Started baling 3 am and finished with a beautiful sunrise. The smoke haze due to over 1000 ha burnt out over the last six days at Hanging Rock about fifty k’s away.

01.01.2022 I can’t ever remember in forty years of haymaking such a debilitating drought nor can I remember such a rapid turnabout in conditions. This is a Sudan grass hybrid, summer forage crop direct drilled into an old lucerne stand. Fingers crossed the good times embrace all farmers for a good while into the future.