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A big thank you to Lee Rekman and his team at Lethal Graphics, for designing our new Logo and website.

Another year is over and hope all our clients had a great Christmas and look forward to a wonderful New Year.

2017 was a crazy year for farming. We received over 300mm of unseasonal rain in February. The start of the cropping season in May and June was very dry and crops got off to a slow start. Too get a reasonable crop we needed rain and cool weather in August and September. Fortunately this was the case and the crops finished off well.

October was the start of hay cutting and baling. Rain is not welcome when the hay season commences. Thankfully the rain stayed away and all the hay was baled as top quality.

Hay season led onto harvest in November. The dry start had reduced crop yields but the good finishing rains got us more grain than expected.

Harvest finished before Christmas and all the equipment was cleaned down and put away ready for the next crop.

Xmas was a great day with family and friends.

Lucerne hay was ready to bale boxing day so Jayden and myself went Gingin to bale this years Lucerne crop. The humidity was perfect and made for a great nights baling.

Jason and Jayden are now enjoying a well earnt holiday while the rest of us continue to deliver hay while the sun shines.

Over and Out

Brett Smith.

 

Sadly on the 19^th November 2017 saw the passing of a great man, husband, father, grandfather & great grandfather – Mervyn Maxwell Smith (Max) – aged 92 years.

Max was born on the 13^th July 1925 and grew up on the neighbouring family farm. Farming alongside his brothers they purchased this farm “Mount Dick” in 1964, which we are lucky enough to call home today.

It was at this time Max diversified into producing quality chaff and hay for the equine industry. His association with race horse trainers led him to become involved in the Northam Race Club of which he was a committee person, life member and patron. A special Northam Race meeting was in 2016 when Max Almighty, a horse we race named after Max, won the Northam Traders Sprint.

Max had a passion for the farm and was a great, mentor workmate and friend. Upon moving into Northam, he would drive out to the farm most days, to lend a hand, say hello and see what was going on.

We ironically finished our harvest the day he died. Up until then, we would regularly take i-pad footage of our mowing and baling, in for him to watch. Max took great delight in seeing what paddocks we were working in and our progress, and was a great boost to his spirits in his final days.

He was constantly amazed by the changes/innovations in farming machinery and techniques. For a man that started farming by horse & cart to GPS controlled tractors, Max certainly saw many, many farming advances in his lifetime.