Steve Lanyon
The Lanyon family have been farming in the Boort area since 1869.
Steve is the sixth generation of his family to take up the farming challenge. Their enterprise covers around 4000ha and grows a variety of crops including domestic and stockfeed corn, faba beans barley and canola.
The availability of irrigation water over the last few seasons has seen the enterprise turn their focus to summer cropping and around 15 per cent of their land is now sown down to corn.
“We can get better yields from crops like corn compared to cereal crops,” Steve said.
“Implementing no till and controlled traffic have been the biggest successes for us and have enabled us to farm more acres without greatly increasing our work load. We took a trip to the states and looked at some top no till farms and we have taken their lead back here at home. We are doing the wrong things with our row spacing (the Australian way) but it is working very well for us.”
This season Steve double cropped an area with faba beans and then an 85 day crop of corn. He has been pleased with how the crops have preformed.
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