00:00Behind me here have some Bombardier Kale that we've chosen to grown.
00:05Started ground preparation back into November.
00:07All that come about from our grazing date, more or less, being a long maturity forage crop.
00:14So we wanted it for middle of May, so we worked back from there, roughly 150 days.
00:19Come out in the middle of December, that's our plant date, so a month beforehand we're in
00:23knock down spray, spreading the calcium and sulphur and other bits and pieces that the soil needed, that the crop
00:31needed.
00:31That's outdone my expectations.
00:33I was thinking at only about a nine tonne crop, worked out to about 13 and a half tonne to
00:37the hectare.
00:38So this year we've been able to attain weight gains of over 500 grams a day on weaner heifers and
00:46these steers,
00:47which for up here in this cold climate is pretty impressive.
00:51Last year our cattle were losing weight in winter, so it's a massive turnaround this year.
00:56Well normally we would sell our steers and cull heifers off in the autumn as weaners, around 300 kilos.
01:04So this year we've been able to keep them, put more weight on them and make them more into like
01:10a trade animal.
01:13Yeah, like a feedlot weight.
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