Noons desperate for agistment

Many of the cows are now heavily pregnant and Mr Noon is anxious to secure some agistment to avoid having to walk calving cows.

"We're desperately looking for a paddock now to avoid having calving cows on the road," he said.

"We were hopeful of accessing one of the local National Parks and have been lobbying hard but we seem to have hit a brick wall there too.

"We'd love to hear from anyone who might be looking to take on some agistment."

Working in partnership with his wife Kim, Mr Noon runs 700 cows and 1000 Dorper ewes on their two properties on the Maranoa River south of Mitchell.

The family was forced to hit the road in May after a lack of summer rainfall led to a critical feed shortage.

Their home property received 25mm of relief rain last Friday but Mr Noon said given the lack of any other decent winter rain, the decision to go droving had proved worthwhile.

"We headed south down the Maranoa River and are now south of St George heading towards Thallon and Mungindi," he said.

"The cows have done pretty well and have picked up a bit which is a positive."

Mr Noon said the trip had been made easier by the generosity and understanding shown by many graziers along the stock route.

"All the landowners have gone out of their way to give us access to water and give us a hot meal and a hot shower," he said.

"That's made being on the road and away from home a lot easier and we've been very grateful to everyone who has helped us out."

While Mr Noon has been on the road, his wife Kim has been busy feeding cottonseed to weaners at the home property, Cedarvale.

Mrs Noon said her spirits were lifted by the 25mm that fell at Cedarvale on Friday night.

"That will really help out the oats which was looking pretty sad," she said.

"It might bring some herbage but the floods scoured all our river frontage country and nothing seems to be growing there yet, which has contributed to the shortage of feed here."