MINUS THE LATEST GIZMOS
At Yanget in May, a more modest cropping
experience was underway. Yanget itself was
originally developed as a pastoral property, and the
undulating land and oddly shaped paddocks don’t
lend themselves to textbook cropping techniques.
This is the type of farming where capital is scarce,
the equipment is mostly old and cobbled together,
there are never enough hands, and you give and
receive a lot of help from your farming mates.
While we couldn’t claim the fanciest equipment,
the soil was a revelation. When it rained and the
plough discs dug into the earth it was easy to see
why in 1849 Mr Thomas Brown, riding up from
York with a party, chose to occupy 40,000 acres in
this neck of the woods.
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The culti-trash and the
Mahindra tractor at Yanget