Can you give us a bit of background on your farm? It’s just me and my Dad, Peter, and Mum. We’ve got about 3,200 acres that we own and then 800 acres that we share farm, so all up that we run about 4,000 acres. We try and do a little bit of everything. We […]
Can you give us a bit of background on your farm? I farm at Lubeck, south of Murtoa, on the Wimmera river with my uncle (Peter), my father (Ian) my brother (Cameron) and cousin (Charlie). We run a full continuous cropping program and with a flexible rotation. I have been farming full time for about […]
As the year draws to a close, we are looking back over the season with our 2019 Farmers in Focus. In a year of luck and promise, learning and adapting, new experiences, fishing and a baby, find out what our contributors thought. Describe 2019 in one or two words… Mixed Bag. “Whilst we are having […]
Dallas Hobbs grew up on the family farm, but he decided he wanted to be a farmer when he realised he liked it a bit more than carpentry. After spending time studying agriculture and working on various properties, Dallas returned to the farm, Woodlands Partners, in Douglas, Victoria. Here he works with his Dad, Stephen and Mum, Wendy. The Hobbs farming focus is cropping […]