A Victorian merino stud has bred its first line of footrot-resistant rams in a major step forward against a disease that ...

In 1789, he finessed the importation of six Merino sheep (two rams, ... Mr Bailey, did you bid? Oh, it’s a fly – I’ll take that bid back. Look at his head and his back. Look how he moves.

According to the head of the Allendale Merino Stud, in Wellington, the effect of solar panels in his sheep has meant wool quality production has “increased significantly.” ...

The top price across the 38,000 head yarding was $209 for the second pen of young Merino ewes sold – 340 head from vendor Cumbagunda which were May 2023 drop, Poll Boonooke blood and August shorn.

WA merino lambs and first-cross lambs were down by 17 per cent and 14 per cent, correspondingly. If WA producers are considering an increase to their sheep flock in line with the national lift that ...

In 1923, a Blenheim farmer was concerned that New Zealand's merino flocks were vanishing. Photo / Loic Leray, Unsplash ...

Earlier this year, while the Rafter 7 Merino flock peacefully grazed in a feedlot at the Fish Creek Ranch, just 12 miles south of Eureka, a coyote stealthily approached the unsuspecting flock, ...