$384 at Naracoorte

Confidence in sheep farming is riding high in Australia, young ewes sold for $A384 at Naracoorte saleyards second week of November.

2018 season ram hoggets

Breeding your Romneys your way: 1) Mob stocking 2) Minimal intervention 3) Commercial environment 4) Performance recorded Contact us here.

Structural soundness

Wairere has over 20,000 animals recorded on SIL (Sheep Improvement Limited). Performance is ranked accordingly to a number of goal traits which are chosen based on our clients requirements. However, good figures not always translate into a good ram. It is...

2017 Scanning Results

Photo: The testing ground at Wairere New Zealand in the good autumn of 1986. In July 2017: 2,600 ewe hoggets at 42kg scanned 112% 1,400 two tooths at 62kg scanned 190% 3,800 mixed age ewes at 69kg scanned 205%

Team Changes

We welcome Anna Vaughan as our new farm manager at Wairere in early August. Anna has recently been involved with New Zealand Merino research and extension, and with Merinos in Australia too. Prior to that she did some hard yards as a block manager at Mt Linton and as...

Record Lamb Prices in Australia

Supply scramble sets $256 lamb record By Annabelle Cleeland Australia's lamb industry boom continues its record shattering run with lamb prices hitting a dizzying $256 a head at Ballarat sale on Tuesday. Opening bids began at $230 following whispers of a stronger sale...
2018 season ram hoggets

2018 season ram hoggets

Breeding your Romneys your way: 1) Mob stocking 2) Minimal intervention 3) Commercial environment 4) Performance recorded Contact us here.

Structural soundness

Structural soundness

Wairere has over 20,000 animals recorded on SIL (Sheep Improvement Limited). Performance is ranked accordingly to a number of goal traits which are chosen based on our clients requirements. However, good figures not always translate into a good ram. It is...

2017 Scanning Results

2017 Scanning Results

Photo: The testing ground at Wairere New Zealand in the good autumn of 1986. In July 2017: 2,600 ewe hoggets at 42kg scanned 112% 1,400 two tooths at 62kg scanned 190% 3,800 mixed age ewes at 69kg scanned 205%

What does success look like?

What does success look like?

Purebred Nudie two tooth ewesAre we farming on the same planet?? Pierre Syben visited the Stirling sheep market in Scotland on July 18. “Good cull ewes made up to $NZ460, poor ewes down to $220. Some of these ewes are 90kgLW, BelTex cross which probably kill out at...

The Challenge!

The Challenge!

Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Wairere two tooth sire rams January 2024When you’re at the bottom it’s hard to see the top. We are all enduring a squeeze of low product prices, spiralling costs and tripling interest rates. And a large area of the country is...

Where’s the upside?

Where’s the upside?

Streaker hoggets (1/2 Nudie) and Brazilian lambs (3/4 Nudie). Streaker ewe hoggets docked 89% in 20232023-24 is shaping up to be the worst year for sheep farmers in a long time. How do we dig out of this hole? If you treat pressure as your friend, this is the chance...

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