Marriott Farm Tatong, VIC.
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Andrew Marriott;
“Were currently farming at Benalla at north east Victoria. My families been farming here for almost fifty years, the main thing that my father has passed on to me in farming is everything you do, do it properly and try and do it once. We were very keen to become involved in the Coles Carbon Neutral brand as it’s the way the industry is going and everyone wants to know your carbon footprint and our children are keen to continue so we want to be continuing to improve the property all the time with tree lines and shelter belts and vegetation. (Sound up) “There’s quite a few ironbark’s”
Without the cattle there, the grass will just go tall and rank and die, they manage the pasture for us, they chew it off and keep it short and actively growing and photosynthesizing and sequencing carbon and then we shift them to the next block while that block recovers. The quality in this carbon neutral beef range comes from the genetics in the cattle and their age, keeping them young, always having ampul feed for them.
What are we standing in? We’re standing in a crop of corn, cos of all the rainfall we’ve had this year though, we’ve only watered it twice. We use this to blend with our grass silage that we make and then we feed it to the cattle when our feed in the paddock is at its lowest, we use this to fill the feed gaps. With this system that Coles has got in place we are still able to drive our production system efficiently and produce carbon neutral beef.”
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