And another business in the region that's having success with dual-purpose cropping is Oxton Park.

I'm Max O'Connor and I am sort of the cropping manager at Oxton Park in Hardin.

The family's had the farm here for over a hundred years and I was born and raised to house up the hill behind us.

So very much a mixed, enterprised cropping and sheep only farm.

and the cropping side of things is heavily based around sort of undulating country and a wheat or a cereal canola rotation.

Very lucky to be in a good rainfall part of the world and sort of varying soil types around the property in different parts, but overall decent soil.

And yeah, utilise the rotations between the grazing canola in the early stages of the First year out, out of pasture and then into a grazing triticale and then into a canola wheat rotation after that for the most part.

And then, you know, as Max said earlier, like we're quite lucky that It's a fairly reliable winter rainfall area that you know nine years out of ten we get a good grain collect at the end of the year as