Collinsville Crops Grain Production Broad Acre Cropping

Merino & Poll  Merino Stud

Twelve different families, mothering almost 1000 stud ewes annually, to produce true medium wool sheep.
 

Commercial Sheep Enterprise

Collinsville is run on a commercial basis comprising of 22,000 merino ewes producing 10,000 merino wether lambs
 

Cropping

Collinsville’s cropping program consists of 3,500 hectares. This consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, peas and lupins.
 

Irrigation

Irrigation program is run at North Booborowie and  is mainly used to background wether lambs coming into the feedlot
 

Feedlot

Expanding operations in agricultural and station areas, and establishing lamb feedlotting for the domestic market
 

Cropping

Collinsville’s broad acre cropping program consists of 3,500 hectares in total. This consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, peas and lupins.

Our break down as a percentage in an average year is approximately the following:
  • 1000 hectares of wheat
  • 1000 hectares of barley
  • 500 hectares of oats for either grazing or export hay requirements
  • 300 hectares of lupins
  • 250 hectares of canola
  • 50 hectares of peas
The majority of our wheat is sold to the Australian Wheat Board or on the domestic market. Barley is either sold to the Australian Barley Board or again the domestic market with approximately 1000 ton of barley put through our Booborowie Feedlot facility, value adding this product. Our lupins also go through our feedlot.

Oats is mainly export hay and some is stored for our merino stud requirements. Canola is all sold through the Australia Wheat Board and our peas are sold on the domestic market.

This whole program is sown using a D.B.S blow-seeder and Case 425 tractor and the majority of our equipment is equipped with G.P.S and is direct drilled into the ground.

Scott James is our Cropping Manager and is in charge of this program.
 
Grain Production | Collinsville Crops | Broad Acre Cropping | Wheat | Barley | Oats