This article focuses on a case study in South Australia whereby property owners David & Glenda Heinrich introduced strip grazing on their property for the first time.

“We cut two 22-hectare paddocks in half. In one of the new 11-hectare paddocks I sowed barley and clover, and the other barley and vetch. We then rotated 230 ewes around those four paddocks, grazing them in strip blocks,” said David.

“With the strip grazing, we could actually keep the sheep on those paddocks a lot longer — we were still grazing that area into the middle of November. So we could carry our feed right through to when we had our stubble, for after weaning.”

“I was really happy how it actually went. We grazed the paddocks a lot more evenly, I thought … Strip grazing gives us another management option, and being able to bring our Robertstown lambs and finish them off, it was like having an extra mob of sheep, but we had the right feed.”