Post Tagged with: 'Jigsaw Farms'. Cooper North and Daisy the Horse are under the supervision of Dorte Lindegaard Wolf. Charles Wysocki's Autumn Farms is a nostalgic nod back in time to a day when horses and buggies lined dusty roads and farmers sold eggs and milk to their.
Mr Wootton and wife Eve have put together an aggregation of 13 farms covering 6677 hectares near Hamilton, a verdant agricultural district proclaimed “australia felix” by explorer Thomas Mitchell. In strong years, the farms carry close to 60,000 sheep and lambs and 1000 head of cattle. That represents a more than doubling of carrying capacity since the Woottons began building Jigsaw Farms in the late 1990s, despite 20 per cent of the land being planted out to trees. For Mr Wootton, farm productivity is inseparable from climate change strategy.
Responding to the challenge of shorter, drier seasons brought on by climate change is not just good business sense, in his view; it’s just plain good sense. The farms are managed using a high-input system to maximise pasture growth. The grass-growing expertise of the dairy industry has been drawn on extensively, and excess pasture is turned into a stored fodder that Mr Wootton calls “haylage” - not quite hay, not quite silage. Although he admits he is not much of a cropper, the nutrient density of grain also plays a part in the farms’ productivity.
A lamb feedlot ensures that lambs are finished and turned off as quickly as possible. Any way of practically driving greater performance from stock is also adopted by Jigsaw Farms.
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Mr Wootton has been an early adopter of principles like the Lifetime Ewe Management program, which among other things, identifies twin-bearing ewes and gives them extra nutrition to improve lamb survival. Land that is not growing grass is given over to about 1200ha of tree plantations and wetlands. These are not only a substantial carbon sink, but they are also laid out in a way that makes them invaluable shelter for lambing ewes in winter, and provide laneways to improve the efficiency of stock movements.
Once certain trees are 25 years old they will also be harvested for timber. The timber lines are laid out in a pattern pioneered on the groundbreaking - several of which are now incorporated into Jigsaw Farms. Waterways and water storages are lined with bands of revegetation plantings and sawlog timbers, which filter water flowing into the waterways and cut evaporation from wind in hot weather. All these strategies support productivity and give a degree of resilience to climate change, Mr Wootton observes. But as he watches one of western Victoria’s best autumn breaks rapidly transform into one of its tougher springs, he wonders whether farmers can adapt enough to the changes forecast to occur if greenhouse gases continue to be pumped into the atmosphere. Jigsaw Farms was recently visited by the Young Carbon Farmers “Southern Carbon Bus” tour, which introduced a group of young farmers to farmers and scientists working at the interface of agriculture and climate change. Young Carbon Farmers is a national project created by rural communications specialists Sefton & Associates, with the Future Farmers Network, and supported by funding from the Australian Government.
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