Where’s the upside

Where’s the upside

Wairere ewes with purebred Nudie lambs at eight weeks old Sheep farmers are under siege. A siege caused by a combination of falling prices, fast rising costs, and a government determined to frame livestock farmers for a crime against the world climate…blame the...
Good times are here

Good times are here

Earl Twigley, manager for Humphrey Bayly on Okare Station, Wairoa, at Wairere, November 2021. Okare has been buying Wairere rams since 1987, except for a brief interval with Perendales twenty years ago. Earl is a quiet achiever, consistently lambing in the high 130s...
Your future in sheep farming?

Your future in sheep farming?

Bare Hair ewes in the UK, part of a flock of 3,000 in the UK. 85% of Wairere’s embryos came from this flock, which is farmed outdoors all year round, on rented grazing, mostly with no fertiliser input.  The season There have been extremes across the country....
Start at the top

Start at the top

Wairere Romney x “Multimeat Merino”, just tailed at Wannon Pastoral, Australia. Second cut of 2,000 sold at weaning, 100 days old, 29kg $a140. Top cut went to own feedlot for February contract at $8.50/kg carcass weight. Take the best Romney genetics in...
Going for gold

Going for gold

Roger and Matthew Smith’s magnificent ewe hoggets, scanned 141 %, story later.  Wairere Romneys put a distinctive stamp on their progeny around the world, in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Chile. Example: Jim Logan in Scotland has saved...
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