The Muster- Paul Corboy

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, welcome back to the master. We have now heated
down to a whacker and he's following him ob of sheep,
which is very timely. Poor cow boy. How are you
this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh well, we're just sort of thinking of wish the
sun would come out. But it's not too beer, is it? Really?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It could be a lot worse for this time of year,
couldn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah. No, we didn't really get spring, and we had
a long I don't know what it wasn't someone was,
But we're here now and it's not really one to Paul.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Just for the listeners out there, tell us a little
bit about your farming operation down there in the wicker alley.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We suys, you know, we just okay, we retired, but
we're slowing down. But now we've got five hundred eight
years left and we just went a couple of beers
and news and have one hundred and fifty odd hippers
and it's just part of a round really, nothing too strenuous.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It keeps you out of trouble, I hear.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
The reason I wanted to get you on today is
we know this time of year you do a lot
of effort throughout the year to put crops in the
winter for sheep and cattle to be out of graze
during the winter, and pasture growth isn't as strong. And
you have actually been trialing some pieced eradication strategies because

(01:14):
where you are on that catland's bush area, deer like
your crop just as much as your sheep and kettle
and can sometimes eat more than they should. So just
want to have a chat about what you've been doing there.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, for the last couple of years we've been losing
basically a pettical year of what to feed, to do it,
things and possums walking bined and it was cost a
lot of money to put it in and then the
arrive at the gate to put them off the sheep
and and find that what would have been was going
to be two weeks off so many two days is
just not a good feeling. So here we've tried a
few things and we seem to be on to a winter.

(01:49):
I cool.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
So I understand that you are mainly working with chow
this year, is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I know, we've got all three different sorts of crops.
We've got five a bit near the house and then
swedeway over by the boundary of the Wisp, which people
will probably know is big forestry block now and then
us three paddocks of tear up another valley. So yeah,
we've got a spread of them around and it's been
quite interesting from the best point of view. Yeah, and with.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
The west, they're going into trees a bit more of
a haven for those pests. So what have you been
doing with the crops to be able to tear some
of those little peasts.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we had a meeting last year with an outfit
and they've got a beer we prey on, which I
called pseudos giants, but they were still I think it works.
We're just there's we spray. It's a fine powder that
goes on and it's endued with the frequency of things

(02:47):
that beer skid of, like jokingly sating beers and pumas
and tigers and lions, which the idea of course never seen,
but evidently it deters them. And certainly on the sweet
where we sprayed it properly and did a very good job,
the deer come to the edge of the peddic and
they don't go in. It's quite amazing really, and it's

(03:07):
sort of backed up wife fear my friends, and there's
a bit more pressure sometimes as they do go in,
but they don't hang around and stay there. They're just
not happy.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Interesting, So as you say, like, yeah, it's got those
deterrents in it, I would have thought those saying the
terrance would also be the terrance for our kettle and sheep.
But they're eating it, okay.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Seems to be. Yeah, there was always the worry that
how come I once says their sea plants together it.
But the guy that told it to us basically said, well,
you know, you're super as weary as the sort of thing,
though much more much more pleasant as Ian watching the
barble sheep, which is means you're walking away from me,
just standing here watching me. So yeah, they wouldn't do that,

(03:46):
would they. So it must be just a different setup.
And they even reckon the farm deer. Don't get so worried.
I don't get worried about it. You can stray a
farm peddic and put the farm deer and they don't
freak sort of thing. So who knows it. You know,
we're only a year into it, so we might find
something else. But at the moment where it's promising, and

(04:06):
so when are you.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Spraying at poorly. You don't just before they go on
or is it after pre emergence? When is it being
sprayed that you're finding the best.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Results basically as soon as it's sign under the grounds.
Best of all, we're but lucky because we use h
T crops, so we do pre emerged spray straight after
the sign and the stuff that sprayed then and done
a good job has been really good. I mad some
pardacter chaw that didn't get sprayed until three or four

(04:34):
weeks after they had the mooved and one of those
text has not been good at all. The other two
have been okay. So it just seems to be they
don't think to worry about having to do it. But
that seems to work better for us if it does.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
And yeah, mentioned possums in that as well, and losing
crops to that. What are you doing in the possum front?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
We just anybody wants to go sh shoe possums the
trip possums does, so we probably will have to do more,
but we've got a lot of them out just in
the last week. Well, I hope there's enough down to
make some up to there. But every time I think
there's deer damage to go up and you find just
a possum trail coming in. Oh, it's really interesting.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
It'll be good to be able to just sort of
follow the journey and see what it's like in another
year or so, see if it's something they get used to.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, you know, and this year we've maybe made a
little bit easier because moss Whist Bush they've taken the
thousands of deery out, so maybe our deer population has
moved off a bit and being too, we're not seeing
them the pressure that we had, so and it's been
the good years. After feeding the bush as well, the
deer won't be quite so you know, want desperate to

(05:36):
come out and eat the crops. So it's working. But yeah,
to watch the space. But I'm glad I did it
this year.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Anyway, we will definitely watch this space. What's happening on
farm for the winter and main things.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
At the moment. At the moment we're just getting sit
for into a lot of cattle to go and crop,
but they're not that sort of and a lot of it.
We lost a lot of trees on fences back in
October like a lot of other people. But the fences
are or with the postal back and where they meant
to be. Some of them may looked up against those
make a peer around the farm at the moments a
bit of an issue.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh, we'll use this good weather that we're having to
get those folks. Paul, thank you very much for having
a gown with us this afternoon. And I hope that
those deer keep being to teared off those crops as.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You head into your winter, So we thanks. Cheers.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's Luke Cowboy there farming down in the Waca Valley.