From growing 30 acres of barley in Co Meath, it has been a massive adjustment to the sheer scale of 7,000ha of irrigated and dryland cropping land in Queensland, Australia. Without doubt, the last three weeks have been an eye opener. My time so far has been spent in the farming section of Goonoo Farm and Feedlot, where the workers are tasked with the challenge of providing fodder for the thousands of cattle housed in the feedlot. The vastness of the land, the dirt roads and production systems used to grow the crops have been a completely new experience for me.