I’m Al Rayner. Welcome to my new blog.
I am really excited about launching my web page and to start a blog. I’m planning on sharing plenty of ideas and stories which I reckon might be helpful to your business, or at least to help you keep in touch with what’s happening in agriculture at the moment.
For the past 17 years I was working as a Beef Cattle Officer with NSW DPI. It was a great career and I enjoyed working with a lot of interesting and inspiring people. I worked most closely with farmers, but I also had plenty of opportunities to work with people in industry positions, researchers, and even schools.
I’m now running my own company RaynerAg. So what do I do?
If there’s one thing I love doing, its working with the people who grow our food and fibre. I love being able to share ideas and work on new ways to be more efficient, more sustainable and more profitable.
I’ve been thinking about the season a lot this week. While there are some predictions for rain on the way, I don’t reckon it will change pasture conditions too much in the short term. So, if you’re not thinking about some strategies for managing your calving cows next month, I reckon you need to get onto that straight away.
If you do need to start feeding, you really want to work out how much feed you’ll need and more importantly, how much it will cost. Planning now will help you manage calving a lot better and keep your cows close to condition for joining in spring.
Make sure you do get some advice about feeding and management strategies. Not all the things you hear about feeding are always exactly right. You don’t want to listen to the wrong thing and waste a lot of money on products you don’t need or are not really the right options for your cows and pasture conditions.