Season-by-season management guides for livestock and farm infrastructure across Australian climate zones.
Summer in Australia is the season that tests every part of a livestock operation — animal welfare, water infrastructure, pasture management, and the personal endurance of the farmers managing it all. From December through February, much of the country experiences…
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Across northern Australia — the savanna and tropical grazing lands of Queensland north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia — the year doesn't divide into the four seasons familiar to southern…
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Spring in Australia is the season that most farmers work all year toward — the combination of lengthening days, warming temperatures, and good soil moisture drives explosive pasture growth and brings livestock out of the winter nutritional trough into genuine…
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Autumn is the pivot point of the farming year in southern Australia. The season — roughly March through May across Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, southern New South Wales, and the southern margins of Western Australia — marks the transition from…
Read article →For cattle producers across northern Australia — the savanna grazing lands of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley — the dry season (roughly May through October/November) is the defining management challenge of the year. As the wet season's pasture…
Read article →Winter in southern Australia — June through August across Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, southern New South Wales, and the south-west of Western Australia — is the season that defines the year for many livestock producers. It is when pasture grows…
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Lambing season is simultaneously the most exciting and most demanding time of the sheep farming year. The birth of new lambs represents the year's productivity potential — and the decisions you make in the weeks before, during, and after lambing…
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