Wethers are relief valve for Lockhart family

By Stephen Burns
August 18 2020 - 5:00pm
Archie Alexander with his father Brent in the paddock of mixed species cover crops grazed by September-shorn Merino ewes with July-drop lambs.
Archie Alexander with his father Brent in the paddock of mixed species cover crops grazed by September-shorn Merino ewes with July-drop lambs.

Increasing the sheep numbers on Oakwood, Milbrulong has enabled Brent Alexander to keep on top of the annual ryegrass and reduce usage of nitrogenous fertilisers in his cropping enterprise through the grazing of vetch as a green manure crop.

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