Coping with seasonal and market risks goes hand in hand with running a farm. One Victorian farmer shows how pursuing both livestock and cropping enterprises can buffer the annual risks faced on-farm. Using a mixed cropping and livestock system ratherthan a single enterprise has buffered seasonal risk and lifted profits and business opportunities for Victoria's Oddie family. According to farm manager David Oddie the mixed system has reduced supplementary feed costs, while enabling pastures to be rested, more flexible cropping rotations and improved weed control.
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