In spite of wet country for months, stock performed well

Pennie Scott
Updated January 10 2017 - 7:12am, first published January 9 2017 - 7:00am
Kate Parry and daughter, Sarah, 'Glengarry', Sandigo via Narrandera with one of their three pens of young Angus cattle at the first sale at NVLX for 2017. Much of the property was under water for months due to flooding in 2016 with limited pasture available for the young cattle.
Kate Parry and daughter, Sarah, 'Glengarry', Sandigo via Narrandera with one of their three pens of young Angus cattle at the first sale at NVLX for 2017. Much of the property was under water for months due to flooding in 2016 with limited pasture available for the young cattle.

Kate Parry’s mixed farming enterprise at ‘Glengarry’, Sandigo, was affected by lingering flood waters from the Murrumbidgee river for months in 2016. Where her cattle usually graze over winter was deluged so the cattle couldn’t get any grass and it was even too wet to feed supplementary hay.

Pennie Scott

Pennie Scott

Senior Journalist

I am an independent scholar with interests and expertise in regenerative agriculture, equity and justice for farmers, functioning healthy landscapes and the culture in agri-culture. My aim is to inform holistically and honestly to ensure readers have access to what they need, now.

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