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Drugs and Lambchops
Season 3 · Episode 12

Drugs and Lambchops

Off The Husk · Millennial Farmer

July 6, 20211h 7m

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Show Notes

Drugs and Lambchops with Will Bignell from Thorpe Farm in Australia.

Thorpe Farm is a large scale commodity producers of wool and prime lambs running approximately 12,000 sheep on 2600ha.

The business runs a 140ha overhead irrigation scheme with the primary focus on growing poppies, lamb fodder crops and cereals for dairy farmers. They have 85ha of flood irrigation growing summer pasture which allows us to produce lambs for the premium mid-winter market. Will's dad was a pioneer in developing deer farming techniques and the venison industry in Australia and was one of the first 4 people granted a deer farming permit.