Welcome to Morvenvale – a grain and cotton farm located between Walgett and Collarenebri on the North Western Plains of New South Wales, Australia.
Owned and operated by David and Sue Ricardo.
We are zero till farmers cropping 5000ha
on 475mm (19 inch) annual rainfall.
We grow a mixture of crops in rotation.
Cotton, wheat, barley, chickpeas and fababeans are our
main crops with some canola too.
Our soils are susceptable to compaction.
3 metre tramlines and a no stock policy help.
Above all – we love our stubble.
Ground cover is king when it comes
to storing moisture and keeping it
as near to the surface as possible.
Hello from the other side of Australia – Perth WA – found your site – grew up between Walgett and Lightning Ridge, my mother came from Collarenebri ….so interested to see what’s going on in that part of the world these days. I expect you’ve had a recent inundation with the rain in South West Qld. All the best with your season.
Meg
I am doing a bit of virtual travelling and it is nice to see your blog. I was amazed that I could even find YouTube – morvenvale’s Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/morvenvale
Great site fellas, no till is the way to go, really good to see you sharing the info!
Thanks
Grayleen
hello David and Peter,
verry interesting website about Australian farming. nices pictures !
i’m French ,we have a farm in Burgundy ,it’s in the east of France. 350 km in the south east of Paris.
We are in the plain near DIJON , (this city is know in all the world for mustard ! )
the name off the village is BARGES !!!
but the country (Burgundy is also know for wine ! red wine.)
the main crops are wheat ,sunflower ,canola(colza for us) ,soja.
we have good conditions for farming in France ,in wheat we have between 7.5 and 9.5 tons/HA ,but it’s when all the conditions are good !
i have good friends in Canada ,in Saskatchewan ,in the great plains ,they have a big farm ,it’s like you in Australia.
have a nice harvesting (in France it’s in 2 month, the lexion combine is ready to go !!!)
bye bye
franck
Hi David
I have been over to a number of countries since I last left a message, one being Kazakhstan on a second visit, I am making some inroads into their change-over to Zero Till to the extent that we may have a delegation of farmers and research people coming on a 10 day visit so will be making contact with you to see your operation and show them the correct approach to ZT and Tramline farming. Hope your year is above average? Will be in touch. Snow Keene principal of ZERO TILL International.
Good work guys, keep it up.
I agree with John, you are the leaders.
Regards
Michael Reid
This is first farm blog i’m watching . Promoting a farm digitally is very good idea. beside that driving is also important for farming.