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%
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 £100,000...
Nuffield Scholar Conference 2021 – delegate handout
Social licence to farm? Dirty dairying?Why did NZ get a credit upgrade in March? Because dairy exports rose $4.5 billion per year in 2019 and 2020, with more to come. Tourism, “our biggest export industry”, contributed nothing to the upgrade or NZ’s standard of living...
The best superfood?
Crayfish or lamb? October 2020, docking time at White Rock Station, south Wairarapa coast. Photo by Rob Dick. Meat was the original superfood The media and green lobby groups seem to think that the world can be “saved” by not eating meat. This opinion ignores history....