Personally, I am finding that this year is just going way faster than normal, I think it’s due to time lost during the lock down period. While for most of us work continued, we couldn’t do everything we wanted to do and yet the days kept ticking bye, so now we are playing catchup but with limited time. One of the jobs we have been working on lately is building a new culvert and other earthworks on our wee hill block. To do this work it needs to be dry (and hopefully it doesn’t stay dry much longer), Daniel my son needs to be available to operate the digger (he works on a cropping farm in summer and autumn) I need to be available to assist and of course we need to have time. It would be easier and quicker to get a contractor in however it is our special bit of dirt and we get a lot of satisfaction of doing it ourselves. Hence the reason the invoices and newsletter are late.

Thank you to the positive feedback on our recent advertising in the Central Rural Life newspaper. The article on mountain biking got the most response. If you are a mountain biker and want a guided tour of the trails in Waimate then please feel free to make contact. From the advertising I also received a phone call requesting used calf meal bags as per following email
Great to talk to you this morning. We use the bags to fill with Mushroom compost for our Club's fund raising. Very successful. I am a member of the Lincoln Rotary Club. If any of your clients could let us have the used bags it would be a great help. They could either email me This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call/text me on 0275395375 or 03 3499310 and we will arrange to pick them up. Thanks for your help. Regards. John Smith

If you are willing to keep the bags (or currently have clean bags) then either contact John or myself.
Regarding calf meal pricing, the price of soy meal recently did briefly drop to a level that I was happy to contract which means we now have enough raw materials contracted to guarantee the price for August, September and maybe October.

Our prices are
High Octane Aoraki Calf Meal 40 x 25kg $748 + GST ex our yard
Low Protein Aoraki Calf Meal 40 x 25kg $718 + GST ex our yard

Kind Regards
Ken