MERINO producers are trialling a new resilience test to identify sheep that are better able to cope with stressors in their ...

Synonymous with the South Island high country, merino sheep may be farmed more widely as farmers are lured by high fine wool prices and genetic improvements. Merino woolgrower Bill Sutherland, of ...

Late-afternoon light falls soft on the rocky outcrops of Dwarsvlei farm, just south of Middelburg, Eastern Cape. It’s the end of a mild Karoo winter Saturday in June, when most country folk are ...

The merino conjures up images of fine micron wool and wrinkles and an imposing concrete statue in the New South Wales city of Goulburn. But in the north of NSW poor prices for fine micron wool have ...

Simon and Sarah Paterson, of the Armidale Merino Stud on the Maniototo Plain, with their young sons Bede and Hugo. Photo: Stuff Prefer us on Google The Armidale Merino Stud at Gimmerburn on the ...

The most recent theft saw 1115 unmulesed sheep stolen from Steven Wheeler’s Lexton farm, bringing the total to about 1710 sheep, or $175,000 in value. “We first noticed when we were shearing, mobs ...