Don and Meg Stewart operate three properties and along with share-farmers, Kelvin and Shelley Matthews, are participating in Accelerating Change on their Yarrawalla property, which totals 242ha and milks 600 cows. The majority of this property has been upgraded to a pipe and riser system with full automation. Their farm is an excellent example of a modernised system that has already incorporated the latest technology on farm, which many farmers in the region would aim for. Th

Tim and Lyndal Humphris milk 325 cows on 150ha at Tongala. The farm is an excellent example of a low cost, efficient and well laid out conventional gravity system with padman outlets. This system is applicable to many dairy farmers in the region. The Humphris' have a strong interest in innovation and technology and have begun to use soil moisture probes to improve irrigation management over perennial pastures and maize to increase water use efficiency as well as overall total