Farming for the future at Bog Roy Station

This week on the podcast, Mark Ferguson chats with Gundy (David) Anderson and Angus Fraser, of Bog Roy Station. 

Gundy and Lisa Anderson are fourth generation owners of Bog Roy station, farming just under 3,000 Ha with 4,000 merino ewes and 140 Hereford cows on the shores of Lake Benmore, Omarama, New Zealand.

Gundy and Angus go through the past, present and future of Bog Roy. When they arrived in 1980, Bog Roy farmed Corriedales but changed to Merinos in the mid 90's based on the wool prices at the time.

After finding themselves carrying too much stock through winter, and finding their peak feed demand occurring when there wasn't any grass growth, Gundy and Lisa changed their thinking.

Well thought out, small and incremental changes over the years has gotten Bog Roy to where they are today. Starting with trials around the farm, ensuring it works for them and their land, and then expanding it is how they started with increasing scanning, grazing lucerne and mating hoggets.

Gundy and his wife Lisa, make sure that all decisions made now can still hold up in 10 years time when it comes to the social license to farm. Getting more production out of less stock units is the way they plan on reducing their environmental impact.

Listen to find out more about Bog Roy station.

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