Successfull Direct Seeding Demonstration at Demo Dairy

Yesterday saw a successfull direct seeding demonstration at Demo Dairy with the boys from Direct Seed - Bill O'Shea and Ricky Mansbridge.

About 25 people, inlcuding students and farmers braved the cold for the demonstration, which was part of Demo Dairy's monthly farm walk. The day began with an introduction to direct seeding from Bill and a short speel about B2B from me. We then jumped on a bus to the site and watched Ricky and Bill using the Mouldboard technique (see their webpage for details of the technique). People seemed pretty enthusiastic about seeing just how easy this form of direct seeding is.


Thanks to Landcare Australia, The Department of Planning & Community Development & Mobile Muster for the funding to run the day and Louise Shelba and Marni Barber from Demo Dairy for all their support in getting it up and running.

Next year we'll target a demonstration to the southern region and another one up in the northern region of the B2B area.


If you reckon that your area could benefit from a demonstration day next year, contact me on the mobile 0458 268 119 or by email : richardb2b@gmail.com . You can learn more about Direct Seed via www.directseed.com.au, Mouldboarding via http://www.directseed.com.au/html/whatis.html and Demo Dairy via www.demodairy.org.au .