A new resilience test for merino sheep is using hereditary markers to help producers identify which animals are better able to cope with stressors in their environment. The genomic tool, known as ...

Our testing has proven merino wool to be a worthy layer in any season, so we asked textile experts and industry professionals ...

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 ...

Researchers from Western Sydney University have found a new, non-invasive way to detect pregnancy in Merino sheep through the analysis of reproductive hormones in wool. The study, supervised by Dr.

The Hay Merino sheep sale has set a new price record of $515, though slow bidding revealed reluctance to embrace the higher market. but the market didn’t quite have the heat and bidding pace ...

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 ...

“We went in to test those two theories because as it turns out no-one has been able to directly measure them before,” study coauthor Duane Harland of agricultural research institute AgResearch in New ...

PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

If John and Elizabeth Macarthur, both long dead, magically reappeared on Earth, they would be delighted to see their former residence Belgenny Farm at Camden, south-west of Sydney, lovingly preserved.

In a first, Australian Merino sheep will be imported to Uttarakhand. The Merino sheep will be brought from Australia to Delhi first and then transported to Uttarakhnd where it will be kept in ...