Wairere Rams | The Lastest News and Events from the Station

$384 at Naracoorte

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

Chris and I are in Washington DC to welcome our first grandchild into the world. Archie Deane Daniell arrived ten days ago. He is in good form, and so is his mother Tori. Tori is more than halfway through a three year stint for MFAT at the New Zealand embassy. Our son...

2018 season ram hoggets

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

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...