By Matt Bailey 22 August 2025
Bees set up a hive in a hole in the weatherboards at the Greylands homestead in 2022
By Matt Bailey 21 August 2025
As of May 2025, Greylands has signed up to take Sydney University vet students for cattle farm placements.
By Matt Bailey 22 July 2025
There has been a recent series on the TV channel NBN bringing back to life some of Singleton's history, including the st  eam train days. The above video is some of the footage of the Hunter Valley steam train aired on that NBN series. After seeing some of the series, Ian recalls, regarding his father Allan Bailey's farming days at Greylands, "I can remember as a small child, going up to the station to watch our cattle from Gunnedah arriving. Unfortunately one beast went down and had to be winched out. The cattle were mustered out to Greylands!" The shortest distance by road currently, from Singleton railway station to Greylands is 26km, so it would have been even further than that to muster the cattle around the edge of the Singleton township and across the Hunter River before following the road out to Greylands - not a short muster. Cattle also used to be sent by steam train to the abattoir at Waratah, Newcastle.
By Matt Bailey 22 July 2025
Updating cattle yards to meet our cattle yard work needs
By Matt Bailey 10 February 2025
An aggressively growing pest that unfortunately thrives in this climate.
By Matt Bailey 10 February 2025
He lived an amazing 38 years!
By Matt Bailey 2 February 2025
When Goorangoola Creek becomes a raging torrent.
By Matt Bailey 21 January 2025
A story of survival against all odds at Greylands 
By Matt Bailey 29 November 2024
Greylands cattle yards - a solution for boggy yards in wet conditions.
By Matt Bailey 17 November 2024
Seeking water for the next drought
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Dung beetles on Greylands

Matt Bailey • December 15, 2024

A natural solution to improve soil, pasture and water quality and 'bye bye bushfly'.

Dung beetles have been studied long and hard scientifically and their praises have been sung by many a farmer. We are also a big fan of the job dung beetles do at Greylands.

Dung beetles play a very important role in Australia’s grazing ecosystems. By burying dung in the soil, beetles improve the flow of water, nutrients and carbon into the root zones of pastures.


Below is a TEDx talk by John Feehan in Canberra about dung beetles.