"Land degradation would set us back pretty hard - it's not just about losing a few sheep."
Having finished crutching three weeks ago, Mr Logue was fortunate there had been a dry spell in the weather.
This allowed him to hold off on seeding commercial crops until it rained.
Other cropping programs, including feed and carbon, are already in the ground.
While some farmers could switch to a higher cropping program in place of livestock, this would be detrimental to the long-term business of producing ACCUs at Weelhamby.
As such, Mr Logue said reducing sheep numbers was not an option, because rotation grazing aspects were needed to produce carbon.
The system works by high-intensity crash grazing or running mobs of 750-head sheep in smaller paddocks (50-70ha) over a short period.
"Sheep spend 10 days, over two five-day periods, in one paddock during winter," he said."They're run in the paddock for five days, are taken out for three months and then put back in again.
"The rotation gives a pulsing effect of the grass growing, reducing in size and pumping carbon into the soil.
"In summer, you use the sheep to utilise pasture that has already grown over winter, they smash it down into the ground and sequester carbon."
Given Mr Logue's role is focused on developing soil organic carbon matter, he needs to maintain environmental standards on the property, in soil cover and land management.
Making a plan as to how he does this over the next four years, has proven "most urgent and stressful".
"We need sheep in the system to maintain carbon build, but do we not breach it?" he said.
"Do we just run 1500 sheep in paddocks - and no lambs - and rotate them around the farm to maintain the carbon?
"Is it even viable to have someone looking after a small number of sheep if they aren't lambing?
"Our two to three-year plan is up in the air."
Given Mr Logue can't make any big changes in one year, his focus has stayed on what was priority onfarm now - feeding sheep and looking after new born lambs and carbon build.
"We are working on biodiversity studies and environmental projects on top of this, so we need those benchmarks," he said.
"The land and bush has to be benchmarked and the carbon has to be measured.
"We've had a pretty serious look at how we would manage future programs within the property if there was no live export.
"In the meantime, we need to maintain income and sustain jobs onfarm and in the district by running sheep."
Source: Farm Online, Brooke Littlewood