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When lambs are left on the milking ewes, the lamb is healthier and the ewe produces an average of one litre a day, which declines to 300 ml by the time she is dried off, nine months after the lamb is born.
Electric fencing is used to strip graze the flock. This ensures pasture cover throughout the year and seasons. Burke Brandon has recorded longer growing seasons as the soil health has improved.
Burke Brandon milked sheep for 16 years, until April this year, after he and Bronwyn sold the cheese making factory.
Burke Brandon said value adding the milk by making cheese was the key to making an income from farming, and enabled them to run lighter stocking rates.
Prom Country Cheese, founded by Burke and Bronwyn Brandon, is an award winning business.

A 79 hectare dairy and grazing property at Moyarra in South Gippsland, Victoria, has become a demonstration site for developing an environmental account for certification.

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