Diversifying into new country has paid dividends for North Western croppers

By Jamie Brown
Updated July 12 2019 - 10:28am, first published July 11 2019 - 10:23am
Hamish Brett, Minnel North, in a recently developed 890ha paddock of barley planted into a full moisture profile. For the past three winters the Minton North property has produced barley and chickpeas with stubble retained.
Hamish Brett, Minnel North, in a recently developed 890ha paddock of barley planted into a full moisture profile. For the past three winters the Minton North property has produced barley and chickpeas with stubble retained.

The Brett family, Bullarah west of Moree, diversified out of heavy black soil into lighter country on the intermittent Minnel Creek, north of Toobeah on the Queensland border. Here they struck a purple patch.

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