28/11/2016 - MikePlowman.com

Setting the Scene

by Mike Plowman | Nov 28, 2016

Hello readers. Sorry to miss last months post. The farm comes first and I was hard out shearing the ewes. yes I do all my own shearing, approx. 8500 thousand a yr. The ewes were quite tight this yr, meaning though going. my brother drives stock trucks and he was...

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