Autumn is the perfect time to get cracking on your Winter Crop planning. Below is some Top Tips for Planting Seed Potatoes and other Winter Veggie Crops.
Top Tips for Planting Seed Potatoes
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Sew Potatoes in Continue reading
What’s the Best Options to Rid Your Poultry of Parasites
One of the responsibilities of owning Chickens is make sure they maintain good health. Chickens can be prone to Parasites and Lice.
But never fear there are lots of products in store to assist you with the control of Bird Lice. If you are not sure if your flock is affected by parasites, you can do a bit of reading here and learn more about bird dwelling parasites.
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Paramatta Grass – What You Can Do
What is Paramatta Grass & Why is it so prolific?
Giant Parramatta grass is a coarse tussocky grass, 70-160 cm in height. The seed head is up to 40 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Stems grow in a fan-like arrangement and the leaf-sheaths are folded. Leaf blades are up to 50 cm long and 1.5–5 mm wide. Its flower head is a dark, slaty green, dense, spike-like panicle 25-45 cm long, with branches usually lax at maturity, and sometimes diverging slightly. The spikelets are 1.5-2 mm long.
Why is it worth removing Paramatta Grass?
Parramatta grass can dramatically decrease economic viability of grazing land and lower land values, by reducing viable carrying capacity and decreased production by up to Continue reading
Top 5 Tips for Keeping Your Pet Comfortable In Hot Weather
FACT -
- Dogs and Cats do not sweat! They pant to lower their body temperature. The same principle of evaporation is used, but via panting.
- Dogs and Cats also seek cool surfaces to lay to draw heat from their bodies.
So What Does That Mean for Pet Owners & How Can You Keep Your Pet Comfortable?
- Have multiple sources of water. Particularly if Continue reading
Shoo Fly Don’t Bother My Horse!
Flies are pesky! A statement I am sure no one is going to argue with!
So how can you keep flies from annoying you and your horses?
There are quite a few options… Continue reading
2 Top Tips to Reduce Water Use in Your Garden
As the temperature rises and humidity decreases gardens can dry out and plants begin to droop.
According to http://www.yourhome.gov.au around 40% of household water is typically used outdoors.
We have 2 top tips to reduce water usage in your garden this Summer. Continue reading
How to Control Buffalo Fly in Beef Cattle
Buffalo fly are small blood sucking pests that cause stress on animals…
Buffalo flies can cause production losses due to lowered weight gain, lowered milk yield and permanent hide damage. One Queensland study showed that steers protected from buffalo flies had a 14% Continue reading
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What are Mycotoxins and why is this important?
Certain fungi found on fresh pasture grasses, conserved roughage (hay, chaff, straw) and in grains can produce secondary compounds called mycotoxins. Several types of mycotoxins exist which may interact, especially under favourable environmental conditions, such as Continue reading
Keeping Poultry on A Small Scale Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the benefits of keeping Backyard hens and where to start.
So what Space and Equipment will you need for Backyard hens? Continue reading
The Latest Guide to Fruit Fly Control
If you haven’t met Fruit Fly, you can get acquainted with the QFF in a previous article we wrote here…
QFF still remains a problem for both commercial and backyard producers. So how do you control QFF destroying your crop? Continue reading
