Raelands Farm

Raelands Farm Our family has been dairy farming on Raelands Farm for over 150 years. We are a small farm and use as many sustainable farming practices as possible.

5th generation family dairy farm in NSW (Australia) sharing what really happens behind the scenes - sustainable grazing, milking, solar power, and daily decisions that keep a farm running. Including;
- Lean farming
- Planned pasture management (FPFP)
- Extensive revegetation of native flora
- Biodiversity stewardship site (in progress)
- Regular soil health assessments
- Genetic selection to

increase animal health & productivity
We also enjoy our increasingly self sufficient lifestyle and growing our own food, as well as producing it for you :)
We hope you get some useful information from our page.

13/04/2026

Broiler litter as a starter fertiliser for this years winter/spring pastures

22/03/2026

Farm life: where wildlife documentaries happen when bringing the cows in 😃 🐄 🐍

17/03/2026

Can a dairy farm run on solar? Here’s our setup ☀️ 🐄 🌱



Thanks to Allen from Ozzie Solar Works - Gloucester, for the install 🙂

19/11/2025
31/07/2025

Farm butchery 🔪
Nice to fill the freezer again with our own beef 🥩. Thanks to Rod Pope for the butchery. It was handy to be able to barter our grain & hay for his services. Will be interested to hear how Rod’s steers finish on the grain/hay ration.
Each time we do our own animal we learn something;
- We still don’t like liver (have tried cooking different ways - if anyone has a good recipe please comment! - the dogs are stoked)
- Favourite offal is heart & kidney (brining the tongue this time round)
- Vacuum sealing is slower but neater for freezer storage (thanks Marty & Sreymeu for the loan of it!)
- If you let farm dogs into the bone bag they spend the whole day burying bones 🐕 😆)
- I always forget to save some energy for bagging mince at the end 🥵 (Those who have done it know how much mince comes from even a smaller animal!)

29/07/2025

Grain delivery & trucks 🛻

25/07/2025

We’ve been keeping our eye out for this bit of machinery for some time & one finally came up at a reasonable price. In Queensland… 17hrs & 1600km’s of driving yesterday & we now have a safer, quicker bale feeder 🚜 🐮

15/07/2025

- Monday tidy up
- kids adventuring
- firewood cutting
- Two lots of hay

10/07/2025

If you saw a UFO 🛸 above the Bucketts ⛰️ last night it was Sam from SMT Ecology flying his Koala 🐨 spotting drone 😀. It was a thrill to see many Koalas spread over a large area of our forested country. There were also some other critters too!
Koala surveys undertaken by MidCoast Council as part of distribution mapping of Koalas in our region.
Video inc:
- Koala spotting
- Cows
- Hannah (our eldest) having a farm day
- More Koalas & other species spotting

70% of the site surveyed before wind gusts of over 85k/hr put a halt to the flight! thought it felt windy 🌬️

08/07/2025

Effluent pumping, calf pen clean up, feeding & drafting stock (a LOT of feeding hay this time of the year)

27/06/2025

Milking, joining (breeding) cows, pasture update, effluent application & one of our “strong personality” cows 🐄 🐮.
Cows all have their own unique personalities - 154’s (Dell - they take their mothers name through the generations) will find any last morsel of grain 🌾 😃

20/06/2025

Herd recording (milk sampling) 🐄
generator setup ⚡️
re-seeding 🌱
tractor ramblings 🚜

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Barrington, NSW

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