Miguel's farm

I traveled not far out of Montevideo to Miguel Jimenez De Arechaga's (second from the left) farm. He had 165 ha's under irrigation with half in crop to corn and soy and the other half to Oats, rye grass and lucerne for grazing his 1600 ewes. The rotation was 3 years of pasture then 3 years crop. This is the first time in my travels of 4 months that I have seen a mixed farming enterprise where they rotate crop and livestock. You may also notice that the sheep still have there tails. Uruguay doesn't have the Lucy fly, so they don't get breach strike, thus they haven't needed to mules their sheep.

One of the other things we discussed was the affect the Australian wool politics has on Uruguay. While Australia leads the world in wool it's actions also affect other nations and their sheep flocks. The more I travel the world and talk with other farmers, the more I realize that we all share the same problems and we all need to work closer together.