The only true limits are the ones you set
Limitations are a perception, once you eliminate the perception the limits become limitless.
The Idea
I wake up everyday on a loop. “I just want to farm full time for myself”… but how, how do I do this as a single person with no backing, no family way in.
I have the skills, 18 years of working in the agricultural industry. The last 8 yrs of those managing a commercial beef property, the years before that spent everywhere from Werribee agriculture backgrounding feedlot cattle, to the Northern Territory chasing wild cattle on contracting camps. In between I’ve thrown fleeces, overseen sheep properties, driven headers and lived a pretty standard life in the agricultural sector.
The idea, a commercial line of beef cattle (I’m not trying reinvent the wheel), a property with history to back it and a story, a property to champion wildlife flora and fauna, with the outlook of building carbon in the soils through regenerative practices.
The farm.
The property has been floating around in my head for years, my “Ideal” farm.. then on a scroll through domain served up my vision.
The farm is situated just outside the township of Burrumbuttock NSW, It ticks every single box the standard ones of course being land and suitable infrastructure, along with history, environmentally significant area and the space to be able to see my vision come to fruition.
The property comes in at 783Ha predominately set up as a cropping property it is the ideal place to convert back to a predominantly grazing with fodder cropping enterprise.
The Plan
The Plan started back in 2020, while managing a property in the Victorian high country through covid I became bored so decided to sign up to a regenerative agriculture online course, this lead me to holistic management and seeing a way through the extreme left of holistic management to the extreme right of monoculture management.
My idea isn’t reinventing anything but more implementing already established practices into a monocultured property and real time testing seeing the change from within.
A commercial line of beef cattle to aid in the regenerative practices and carbon capturing of the soils, a division of currently mono cultured paddocks with wildlife corridors adding to beef production and drought proofing along with carbon credits.
The Why.
Essentially the idea is I’m launching my own pastoral company. The why is simple, you need to wake up each day and do something with your time, it may as well be the thing your most passionate about.
Farming, cattle, horses, pastures I live it for it. My why is already my life, I just want it on a bigger scale, and I need the backing for it to happen.
This may amount to nothing, or it may lead to something. I’ld rather throw my hat in the ring and gain nothing, than do nothing and wonder if.