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Trial and error helps Bourchier family towards feedlot success

Grower story: Setting up and managing lambs in feedlots.

Claire Harris
Tom Bourchier, of Gymbowen, Victoria, runs a feedlot with a current capacity of 15,500 lambs, four years after starting from scratch. He has intentions to gradually increase capacity to 20,000 lambs.

Tom Bourchier, of Gymbowen, Victoria, runs a feedlot with a current capacity of 15,500 lambs, four years after starting from scratch. He has intentions to gradually increase capacity to 20,000 lambs. | Credits: Mark Saunders, Kondinin Group.

IN just four years – and with a lot of trial and error along the way – Wimmera sheep farmer Tom Bourchier has gone from having no feedlot equipment on his farm, to developing a feedlot with a capacity...

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