Breaking bad

The clear plastic bags with a nondescript white substance washed up on the shores of Western Port Bay the other week. Realising it’s potential for improving cash flow we took the bags, evaded the gang members who were inconspicuously lying on the beach reading over-sized newspapers with eye-hole cut outs, and headed back the farm. After testing the substance in our home lab it became clear we were dealing with highly sought after, evaporated milk. This is exactly what we were hoping for.

We are going to dilute the milk powder and spray it in strips on summer pasture (millet) and compare to control strips. Milk powder has a high level of available nitrogen, phosphate, potassium as well as calcium and sulphur. But it also has a high biochemical oxygen demand (amount of oxygen required by microbes to breakdown organic materials). Low dissolved oxygen can be potentially degrade water quality.

We will keep you up to date on the results.

A detailed lecture on using milk for pasture is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk2aeVl4EoU