Marengo Pastoral Company

25/10/2026

So you’re taking your dogs 🐕 for a run on a Sunday arvo up the laneway…

Next thing you see a potential whoopsie!

Then it turns into drafting a lame bull out and doing a stock shift 🤣

So quick paddock inspection before shifting. Then pasture data assess the new paddock for our graze data plus a fence run and water check. ✅

🍀Bulls looking great at the half way mark of joining

🍀Calves are doing like steam💪

🍀Marengo creek looking amazing. I bet the trout 🐟 are loving it!!!!

Great to see a drop or 2 !!!!!! What a difference 🌧️

How much have you had?
How are your totals going?

A Quick Look at our rolling rainfall 🌧️ data.

Rolling rainfall to date - 845.27 mls
9 month total - 427 mls
6 month total - 204 mls

Current monthly October raining - 172 mls

Rolling rainfall totals
Start of October - 679.5 mls
Start of September - 672 mls
Start of august - 771.5 mls
Start of July - 817 mls
Start of June - 835 mls
Start of may - 906 mls

17/10/2026

Great to see our industry and farming life is in safe hands with the next generation 💪

Also amazing support from leading agriculture businesses. 👍

Farming business supporting farming families !!!!

RumenWorks Nutrition was delighted to purchase a show steer at the North Coast National in Lismore this week.

This magnificent Angus steer was exhibited by Dorrigo High School and Hernani Public School, and superbly paraded by Mackenzie Kelsal and Jack Watters. You did your schools and your town proud.

A big shout out to Tim and Kerry from Ray White Dorrigo for all the help they give the Dorrigo kids.

A great couple of days for Dorrigo!

15/10/2026

So, have a look at Hyland Angus W7 steer!

We donated him to Dorrigo High School/ Hernani Primary School to be apart of the open steer hoof and hook competition at Northcoast Nationals at Lismore Show.
Dorrigo High School have done an absolute amazing job at getting this animal into his current condition.

Mackenzie proudly lead him in her paraders and also in the open steers.
Well done Mackenzie, you have made your School, Hyland Angus and your family very proud!

A huge thanks to Dorrigo High School, Josh Leipens, the whole High School Team, Tim Bayliss, Kerrie Cooke and anybody else I have missed.

We are awaiting the results for his carcass!
More to come.......


school

17/09/2026

Sometimes after a longgggg dayyyyy 😮‍💨

All you need ……. Is a rest on the veranda😂

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

14/09/2026

☀️Tell me spring has sprung without telling me spring has sprung ……… 😂

So a few questions🤔

1. Have you even seen a Tiger 🐅 Snake 🐍 in real life?

2. Have you even seen one this big ?😳

How awesome is the Australian bush …… everything wants to kill you 😂😂

01/09/2026

It’s was great to see our local members come to visit and have a chat with the local community.

A wonderful event held at the Ebor Hotel for Pollies at the pub 🍻

Brendan Moylan member for New England
Michael Kemp member for Oxley
Richie Williamson member for Clarence

Great questions, topics and lot’s of open discussion.

local issues as well as the boarder area.

- the Dorrigo ambulance 🚑 station
- Biosecurity ricks
- the gun buy back
- the decline in bee 🐝 populations

Just to name a few….

It was also a great chance to discuss the GKNP and the native veg mapping system.

So what’s next…………

Time to start focusing on things that have a direct impact to business and communities.

💥Land management

💥 Fire 🔥 fuel loads - a 3 month short term grazing permit - using livestock to be apart of the solution

💥Pest management for feral pigs 🐖/ deer 🦌/ feral cats 🐈

💥 Weeds control such as lantana.

And also time to demand some transparency around funding, staffing, equipment, policies and procedures.

Plus details of the carbon project for the GKNP and the management selections for this projects.

Time to start getting out heads together and coming up with a real strategy for addressing these issues.

28/08/2026

26/08/2026

So alittle bit of rain about 🌧️ and old
Mt Hyland 🏔️looking a little cranky ……

Been august it’s time for some landscape grazing, especially on the back of moisture.

🌱cannot add density - create density. Time to break out the old hot tapes 🤣

🌱let the cows do the hard work - get a even graze - working on pasture utilisation and stopping selective grazing.

🌱manage rest period and allowing growth ahead.

Hopefully 🤞 some warm days ahead and a little more 🌧️

10/06/2026

📣 It’s sale time ….. have a look at these !!!!!

The rain 🌧️ has arrived, so time to restock. If you’re looking for future breeders or performance these will fit the bill.

Available this week on auctions plus.

💥 68 x 100% vender bred fully weaned Angus heifers.

💥 These Angus heifers are out of the premium Marengo self replacing Angus cow herd sired by some of the best genetics available.

💥 All sired by Eaglehawk genetics which include Firestorm, Rimrock, Trapper, carbon and capitalist.

💥 The focus of the breeding program here at Marengo is a cow herd that is bred for feed efficiency, temperament, performance, growth, fertility and doing ability.

💥 These weaner heifers are fully weaned, handled and educated. They have also been in a rotational grazing system with single and double hot wires.

💥 Health treatments are all up to date - 7in1 drench fluke B12 and ADE.

Contact Ben or Tim at Ray white rural Dorrigo

04/06/2026

Well it sure has been awhile …. Things have been a little hectic 🤪

So it’s June, which means time for the cows to come home before calving.
But this time it’s with mixed feelings. Because this will be for the last time.😢

For the reason of, the forestry grazing will be taken up by the GKNP……….

And so ends lots of tradition and heritage plus also cattleman / bush skills that are getting lost. We have been only been doing such traditions relatively short compared with generations of family’s who have been doing this for decades.

We put our cows out into the bush each for the 3 months of autumn and then they return before calving. Depending on season, depends of which bush we use. Not every bush section gets used every year.

These girls are our 6, 7 and 8 year old cows starting to come home. This allows us to manage and maintain our feed budget, rest periods and ground cover in our rotational grazing system plus also use this to manage the fuel load in the forestry plus our own freehold bush sections.

This decision has caused major stress to family’s plus huge impact on farms and business.

So now the focus shifts to management of these areas. We have managed and maintained all at our costs - non native w**ds, no native pests, fencing, fire trails , tracks and fire fuel loads. This also protects and benefits our neighbours and our communities.

Our knowledge and maintenance of these areas proved to be extremely valuable during the 2019 bush fires 🔥. Fire trails were clean, tracks opened, knowledge of water points and wet gullies, all providing a huge help to our firefighters plus making sure they were as save as possible.

So where to from here…… 🤷‍♂️ funding, management, fuel loads, labour, equipment, w**d management, pest management, fire management, fire trails, tracks, fencing…………

Well all i can say is this

good luck 🤞 everyone - see you all on the other side 😜