Farmers begin dry sowing as they await the autumn break.
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00:00Cropping program, 3,100 hectares, and we run that beside a 2,000 head self-replacing merino flock as well.
00:11Dry sowing, started on the 2nd of April, sowing vetch, and we're now onto the beans.
00:16We'll continue on, hope to get finished by mid-May.
00:20Last year's very dry season has made us change our program around a little bit.
00:26Dropped our canola right back to probably nothing, and just going with beans, vetch, oat and hay, oats, barley.
00:39Well, it's been tough for me, because I've only come back from the farm for the last two years.
00:43Been in the building trade for 22 years on me own.
00:47So the last couple of years have been tough.
00:50Makes you a little bit stronger, but yeah, it's just got to go in.
00:54So we've just got to get a start.
00:55At this stage, we anticipate there's no rain forecast, so it looks like another dry sowing, similar to last year, which we sowed dry, and some of the crop took, yeah, I'd say up to nine weeks before it germinated, and pretty patchy germination, and which resulted in reasonably low-yielding crops.
01:18But anyway, it did give us a harvest, a low-yielding harvest, but we did harvest, and we will go again.
01:28So, and we'll see.
01:29So let's get started.
01:30So let's get started.
01:31And now, let's get started.
01:32And then, we'll see quantize history, the roots,
01:37which most money are going to be here.
01:45So let's get started.
01:48This great set is a a little changed.