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Position of farms |
La Rochelle yellow |
Driefontein red |
Stoetvlei light blue |
Eighty grazing camps al
with good water allows
for excellent grazing
systems for at least ten
herds |
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Two of the three pivots
and the river.
Google earth is not up
to date. Our winter feed
pivot is in the centre
of these two and this
photo was taken when the
Lucern lands where just
established. They are
now in their third year
of production. 98% SA
Standard and 2% Super
Aurora. |
After stopping all forms
of irrigation for nearly
12 years, we started up
2 pivots in 2010 and
then another one in
2012. Two with lucern
for storage for times of
droughts and one for
winter grazing. And this
year (2015/16) it has
proved to be a real GOD
SEND. |
Grass, clover pastures
at the homestead with
the house and flat
attachment, big shed,
sale complex and the
fabulous crawls and
handling facilities. A
new big shed was erected
for all implants, not
shown on the photo. |
Driefontein’s yard and
fountain dam with
excellent Bass fishing |
All over the farms
streams from the hills
are dammed up to flood
the veld. |
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One of the two big dams
in the river with extra
masses of feed |
Another dam with more
masses of summer feed |
Partial photo of the
house before the new
flat extension and part
of the lands |
Part of the house before
the built on flat. |
Spruit in Winter. Even
in Winter the weir holds
a vast amount of water.
(Driefontein) |
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Spruit running over.
22/1/2011 (Driefontein) |
26/08/2006 (Driefontein)
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26/08/2006 (Driefontein) |
22/1/2011 Weir running
over (Driefontein) |
22/1/2011 (Driefontein) |
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River Flowing (La
Rochelle) |
One of the weirs where
we used to pump to
irrigate (Stoetvlei) |
The excellent state of
our veld due to good
grazing systems. (Driefontein) |
Young bulls at the
river. (La Rochelle) |
South Africa’s Boran
Platinum cow of the year
and her calf in summer
veldt (25/2/2009) (Driefontein) |
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Meatmasters on the veld
10/3/2014 (La Rochelle) |
Platinum Cow rearing her
calf on broken veld. (Driefontein) |
Red grass utilized by
cows in the vlei veld. |
Borans grazing in the
river bed in the summer. |
Ngunis grazing in the
riverbed during summer |
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The fountain dam at
Driefontein during
winter. |
Boran weaner calves on
Rygrass under pivot
during first month of
weaning. (La Rochelle) |
Calves on Rygrass
pasture during month of
weaning. (La Rochelle) |
Bulls keeping condition
well, even when in large
group of cows on typical
summer flat veld. (Driefontein
fountain camp) |
Boran pregnant heifers
in hill camps, warm
during winter. (La
Rochelle) |
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Afrino’s in the
grassveldt below the
hills during winter (La
Rochelle, hills in
background is part of La
Rochelle) |
One of smaller dams dry |
Commercial ewes with
their lambs off the veld
in the drought of
2015/16. This group of
157 ewes and 192 lambs
has received NO, extra
feeding or lick. This
was our own on farm test
to see how far we could
push the limits. Hammels
was put in to a on farm
feedlot where more than
50% of them was finished
with in 13 days with a
ave growth of 710g/ day |
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