$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...
February is ram lamb selling time at Wairere!

February is ram lamb selling time at Wairere!

Each year, Wairere make available about 1,500 ram lambs for sale. These lambs are the product of performance recorded ewes from our Romney and composite stud flocks. They were weaned early December 2016 and will be eye-muscle scanned late January 2017. Faster genetic...

November was ram selling time at Wairere

November was ram selling time at Wairere

Check out our video on how our rams get sorted for sales. Every year we make available around 3,000 rams for sales which makes us one of the largest ram breeders in New Zealand with nearly 90 years of ram breeding experience. For those who live in New Zealand, we are...

Where’s the upside

Where’s the upside

Wairere ewes with purebred Nudie lambs at eight weeks oldSheep 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. Half New...

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