Before snow hits

• Keep an eye on climate predictions and talk to your neighbours.
• Plan how you will deal with no power (no electric fences, pumps, milking, refrigeration, hot water, cook or heating). If necessary, source a generator.
• Stockpile what you might need for home and farm to minimise travel:
  • Surplus feed
  • Generators
  • Food and alternative means of cooking and heating for your home
  • Emergency kit.
• Have a battery-powered radio.
• Have a smartphone, and know how to use it and how to charge it up in the car
• If you need to travel any distance, make sure you are well-equipped for the cold and let someone know where you are and when to expect you back.
• Have a flexible feed plan underway for stock.
• If you know it’s coming, move stock to sheltered paddocks, especially young stock, to reduce exposure.
• Make sure stock can access food and water, and you can access them.