Project description

With nearly 120 hectares of mainly irrigated dairy pasture and a herd of 350 cows, Hastings Park in the NSW mid-north coast is a highly productive farm. The cows produce approximately 2.6 million litres of a2 Milk� annually. Leo and Sue Cleary, owners of Hastings, were eager to implement a project for distributing dairy waste water over a large part of the farm to assist pasture growth over the whole irrigated part of the farm.

Project aims

Their project had multiple objectives, including capturing and reusing nutrients from dairy wash-down, reducing dependence on chemical fertilisers with the goal of benefitting a large part of the farm with effluent reuse, and improving the profitability and sustainability of the farming business. Leo Cleary received an a2 Milk� Sustainable Agriculture Landcare grant for a project to enhance the sustainability of operations on his dairy farm.

Project outcome