Alongside his trusty dog Toby, Mr Bloomfield travels out to his 600 acre property, Taringa, near Inverell, most days and can usually be found feeding cattle, sowing paddocks or planting trees.

Mr Bloomfield is so assured of the health practices he implements in his cattle herd that he credits his healthy lifestyle to a cattle dry lick (that is a health supplement given to cattle).

For a number of years now he has been taking some of his cattle's mineral supplement in a capsule every second day.

He believes it helped his arthritis, got him back out playing golf and lowered his blood pressure.

"I thought well it's doing the cattle so much good I might try a bit of that myself and it just changed my life," he said.

"It's got 20 minerals in it; you can't buy any thing in the chemist shop like it."

Mr Bloomfield runs 25 Angus cows and calves and a mob of 30 trade steers on the former dairy farm but that number could be set to grow if his approach to grazing management pays off.

Building on his use of cell grazing, Mr Bloomfield is trialling five month rotations - placing cattle in a paddock for one month and resting it for four.

It's early days but already he believes he is on to a winner.

"What I realised was that I was eating out all the good grasses first and leaving the poorer ones so I decided the only way to fix it would be to give it a very long spell," he said.

"I realised that these grasses weren't maturing so a few species turned up that I'd never seen before.

"I've only done it since the drought so really it's only been this year, it hasn't had a decent chance, but I'm just amazed how well the stock look and how well they have done."

Despite his age Mr Bloomfield isn't one to shy away from change.

This year he opted to artificially inseminate all of his cows for the first time to a Santa Gertrudis bull, adapted the Yeoman system and created level contours to water paddocks and is planting oak trees to build his fodder bank along fence lines.

Don't forget the self-seeder he invented to sow lucerne into his grass country as an alternative to clovers.

"You never stop learning," he said.

"I think in the long run I'll probably run more cattle. Well, if you are going to grow a lot more grass I'm sure I will.

"It's got to be a passion to stay with it," his wife Judy added.

A focus on ground cover has helped to avoid any water run off for at least the last 10 years.

It's only since the drought that Mr Bloomfield returned to running a breeder herd having previously backgrounded steers to 400 or 500 kilograms.

"I was buying stock in and it was successful to a point but they brought in some very bad weeds including silver nightshade," he said.