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Duncan Grigg, co-owner of Meadowbank Station

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Farmers will hear how winter crops for ewes have built feed covers for lambing, at Beef + Lamb's next monitor farm programme meeting on Thursday, July 29.

Those taking part will visit a rape crop and view hill country lambing covers at Meadowbank in the Taylor Pass, according to the programme's latest newsletter. Tips on feeding and managing animal health will also be discussed, and there will be a short trip to a nearby gully to see the results of aerial spraying of gorse with Tordon.

Participants will then travel to to Jedburgh farm in Redwood Pass, where a once poor-quality ram paddock has been turned into a legume-based pasture by direct drilling of mainly sub-clover.

Farmers will also take a look at interval rape and Omaka barley crops which were sprayed, summer fallowed and sprayed again before drilling took place.

Those taking part should meet at the Meadowbank woolshed at 12.30pm. Meadowbank is 3.26 kilometres up Taylor Pass Rd from the Alabama Rd roundabout.

- The Marlborough Express

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