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*Elanco®, Extinosad® and the diagonal colour bar are trademarks of Eli Lilly and Company. EAH13126 Cover Story Named Grand Monarch 44th, and sired by Grand Monarch 43rd, the supreme exhibit is from a sire line that has been at Merryville for nearly eighty years. His first showing was at Sydney last year where he won the two-tooth fine/ medium class. A Merryville ram was also winner of the objective measurement 6-tooth class and the stud won the Sir Walter Merriman Memorial prize for most successful Two supremes exhibitor in open superfine and fine wool classes for the fifth consecutive year and 31st time overall. Merryville was also most successful March-shorn Poll exhibitor. to Merryville The top photo on our cover gives you another look at Grand Monarch 44th, which was also the supreme exhibit at the Great Southern Supreme Merino show and sale in Merino stud Canberra in late January. On that occasion, judge, Garry Seaman, Lochness stud, Crookwell, echoed the sentiment of his fellow judges In keeping with this publication’s title, our cover features when he said, “The sheer outlook and scale of this ram the supreme exhibits at the three major NSW shows held and his wool-carrying ability made him extremely hard to annually under the auspices of the NSW Stud Merino go past. Breeders Association. “He’s a future sire of the Merino industry; we’re backing From a showing of close to 300 Merinos at this year’s him to come up with some top Merino sheep in a few Sydney Sheep Show at the Sydney Royal, a fine wool years,” he said. ram from Wal and George Merriman’s Merryville stud, Pride of place, front and centre on the cover goes to the Boorowa (middle right ram on cover), strode through the 21.9-micron, 4-tooth ram from the Kopp family’s Towalba ranks to take out the supreme ram and then supreme stud, Peak Hill in the NSW Central West, which won the Merino title with what judge Robert Plush described as 2012 Rabobank Australian Supreme Merino Ram title in “one of the biggest fine wool rams I’ve ever seen”. Dubbo last August. Mr Plush, Kerrsville stud, Coleraine, Victoria, said “We’ve The supreme, from the champion medium wool sale ram been looking for one in the fine wool like this for a long class had been champion sale ram, grand champion time, so thanks for breeding one.” ram, supreme NSW ram and then the show’s supreme “He’s got really good wool and he’s going to cut a lot; his exhibit before successfully taking on the finalists from five structure is good and he stands very square.” States to win the Australian title. Wal Merriman said a feature of the ram is his very narrow The 2013 Queensland ram of the year from Barcaldine measurements. The 2½-year-old measured 18.4-micron Downs, Barcaldine, Qld, also features on this year’s cover fibre diameter, 2.6-micron standard deviation (SD), 13.8 in the middle left position. per cent coefficient of variation (CV) and 99.9pc comfort The rising two-year-old ram weighed in at 122kg with factor (CF). The 128 kilogram ram has since cut a 13kg 21.2-micron wool. He had 15.5CV, SD of 3.3 and 99.6pc fleece. CF.

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To find out what more an Elders Stud Stock Representative can do for you, contact your local representative today. Ross Milne 0408 057 558 Steve Ridley 0407 483 108 John Newsome 0428 669 498 Ron Rutledge 0418 483 976 Jenni O’Sullivan 03 5722 7010 Tom Penna 0428 854 708 MAKES MORE POSSIBLE Ross Dickinson 0438 847 871 Scott Thrift 0417 660 260 4 saddened by this loss to the industry. Uardry through its history has influenced a great number of flocks and studs and a number of industry leaders have cut their teeth jackerooing on this prestigious operation. Time however marches on and change is inevitable. President’s Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of being present to see Glen Keamy Message - receive his prestigious award, the Chevalier de I’Ordre du Mérite Agricole - the French National NSW Order of Agricultural Merit. Congratulations Glen; you The start of 2013 has been a tough one for most; the must be very proud. bobtail spring of 2012 followed by a long dry run into On a sombre note, the NSW SMBA has been saddened autumn had members questioning their prospects for by the death of a number of members and industry the coming year. Thankfully for most the rain has come, figures in the past year. The association has in particular although late, and the mild conditions in early winter have been impacted by the sudden passing of vice president, allowed catch-up. Bob Walters. Bob had unbounded enthusiasm for Merino The wool market still struggles with the EMI falling sheep and for his role on the SMBA Council and had below the psychological barrier of 1000 cents, recently much to offer in the coming years and on ascendancy recovering to 1066 cents. Coupled with a fall in the to the presidency. Our sympathy is again extended to Australian dollar to around 92.5 US cents these prices Mikala, Georgia and Brody. may remain or even improve. Merino cardings though are It is my view that the NSW Stud Merino Breeders still on a positive note. Association (NSW SMBA), similarly to most other This year also saw the end of an era with the dispersal associations, must embrace youth to remain viable and of the iconic Uardry Merino stud. We are all in some way strong into the future. We must focus on education and training to assist these talented people to embrace the sheep and wool industry. To this end, the activities of the NSW SMBA through the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ NSW SMBA Trust now include a sponsorship through Association Ltd the RAS Foundation and most recently the creation of a sponsorship of an Honours student at the University of Executive Director: Edward Dugan Sydney. Assistant to Executive Director: Mae Edenborough These stories and more follow in the pages of this annual record of the activities and successes of the stud and Address: Locked Bag 4317 commercial breeders of NSW and of the NSW SBMA, Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 along with general interest Merino sheep and wool Phone: 02 9763 2744 industry reading. Fax: 02 9763 1878 May the year ahead be kind to you all. Email: [email protected] James Derrick Web: www.merinonsw.com.au President President: James Derrick NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association Phone: 02 6944 7584 / 0408 694 209 Snr Vice President: Lou Armstrong Jnr Vice President: Angus Beveridge Public Relations Manager & Editor: Carol-Ann Malouf OAM P O Box 320, Condobolin NSW 2877 www.merinonsw.com.au Phone: 02 6895 2274 / 0427 119 535 New additions: Email: [email protected] • Dubbo National Ram Sale Association Designed & Printed by: Dobija Print World including Griffith, NSW. Ph 02 6964 5093 2013 Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show www.dobijaworld.com & Ram Sale entry forms plus catalogues when available The opinions expressed in contributed copy in this journal are those of the contributor, not necessarily the association. • Great Southern Supreme Merinos All information contained in this publication was correct at time of printing. Is your ram supplier a registered breeder of Merino The publisher takes no responsibility for any errors that may occur. E&OE rams? Check the on-line Flock Register or the NSW and Queensland Stud Directories commencing on For additional copies contact the NSW SMBA Phone (02) 9763 2744 page 110 of this publication.

5 NSW SMBA’s new president

Members of the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association (SMBA) have a new president. James Derrick, a third- generation Merino breeder from Karoola Downs Poll Merino stud, “Karoola Station”, Gundagai, has been elected to head the body which represents the States registered breeders of Merino rams. Mr Derrick, who was elected unopposed at the association’s AGM held during this year’s Sydney Sheep Show at the Royal Easter Show, succeeds Lou Armstrong, Pemcaw Merino and Poll studs, Dunedoo, whose three- year term concluded at that meeting. James Derrick is presented with the NSW SMBA president’s badge A councillor of the SMBA since 2005, Mr Derrick served by outgoing president, Lou Armstrong, at this year’s Sydney Sheep his apprenticeship as senior vice president to Mr Show. Armstrong and prior to that was junior vice president “We have remained a Poll Merino flock with no horn under Robert Lindsay. Mr Derrick is also one of the influence since that time. SMBA’s two delegates to the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders’ (AASMB) and these positions have “My father and I founded the Karoola Downs Poll stud in given him a solid knowledge of the business and policy of 1987 when we could not purchase the type of Poll ram we the two associations. required for our climate,” he said. Mr Derrick acknowledged the strong presidencies of his “From becoming a stud Merino breeder I commenced predecessors, adding “I have enjoyed working with Lou showing and mixing with like-minded people and got to and Robert and dealing with the challenges that have not only compare my sheep but also to meet and make arisen in that time”. some very good and longstanding friendships within the industry. Since 2006 Mr Derrick has been the SMBA’s representative on the NSW Footrot Strategic Plan Steering “With my wife Sheryl, and children Andrew and Lauren, Committee and on the NSW Ectoparasite Liaison we have exhibited our sheep at all the major shows in Committee. He has also served on the SMBA’s public NSW and have also exhibited in Victoria and Western relations committee for a number of years. Australia.” “Along with Carol-Ann Malouf I was instrumental in In accepting the nomination to the SMBA presidency, Mr establishing The Top Sire annual journal in its current Derrick said that he looked forward to making himself format in 2010,” he said. available to all members by attending as many local and major industry events as possible “to meet with members “I believe this journal has been a great advantage to of the much larger Merino community”. our association as it has improved not only our financial position through advertising but also our profile to “I will make myself available to all members to air any the greater Merino industry including, importantly, to concerns they may have or ideas to drive our industry into thousands of our flock producers.” the future,” he said. Mr Derrick has lived in the Gundagai district all his life and “The only way the Merino industry remains viable in an his family was one of the original settlers in the Mundarlo ever-changing global community is for all of us to work area. Educated at local schools, Mr Derrick went on together and make every effort to attract and keep the to tertiary education in Wagga Wagga, gaining trade next generation of Merino breeders keen to have a say in qualifications in wool classing, welding and small business an historic and progressive industry.” office management. The two vice presidents elected at the same meeting After Mr Derrick’s grandfather purchased his first Poll were outgoing president, Lou Armstrong, who is joined Merino ram some forty years ago the family “discovered by Angus Beveridge, Wyuna, Armatree. Re-confirmed in the benefits of managing and handling sheep without their positions were SMBA secretary, Edward Dugan, and horns”, said Mr Derrick. treasurers, Peter Vickery, Bellata and Tony Gall, Uralla.

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6 7 Cobana, Poll F. No. 1468 - Bombala Brad Yelds, trading as Cobana Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, founded his stud in November 2011 and registered in August 2012 by the purchase of 65 semen doses and 65 ewes from Pastora, Poll F. No. 1090.

Austral-Eden, Poll F. No. 1486 - West Wyalong This stud was founded in January 2010 and registered in May 2013, by John, Barry and Craig Johnston of Austral- Eden Merino stud, trading as J.A., B.G. & C.M. Johnston, Welcome by the purchase of 100 semen doses from Wallaloo Park, Poll F. No. 1332, 50 semen doses from Lachlan, Poll F. In the past year, ten new studs have been registered with No. 1415 and the transfer of 50 ewes from Austral-Eden, the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association. Contact F. No. 3389. In December 2011, 51 semen doses were details for these studs are contained in the NSW Merino purchased from Poll Boonoke, Poll F. No. 1 and in January Stud Directory 2013-14 in the back pages of this journal. 2013 a further 200 ewes were transferred from Austral- Eden. Registration is pending for a further three Merino and six Poll Merino studs. Trigger Vale, Poll F. No. 1487 – Lockhart Trigger Vale was founded in December 2012 and Nimala, Poll F. No. 1467 - Culcairn registered in July 2013, by Andrew and Mandi Bouffler, This stud was founded and registered in July 2012 by trading as A.J. & A.G. Bouffler, by the purchase of 30 Glenn and Susan Wright, trading as G. & S. Wright, by the semen doses from Karbullah, Poll F. No. 1365 and 82 transfer of 1 ram from Nimala, F. No. 5035 (Terrick West, ewes from Sims Uardry, Poll F. No. 1387. Poll F. No. 121 bred) and 100 ewes from Nimala, F. No. 5035. Snow Vale, Poll F. No. 1488 – Berridale This stud was founded in November 2011 and registered Wyuna, Poll F. No. 1483 - Gilgandra in July 2013 by Michael and Katrina Hedger, trading Angus and Melinda Beveridge of Wyuna Merino stud, as M.A.F. & K.L. Hedger, by the purchase of one ram trading as A.D. & M.G. Beveridge, founded their Poll stud from Yarrawonga, Poll F. No. 1356, 100 semen doses in December 2012 and registered in April 2013 by the from East Strathglen, Poll F. No. 178, and 80 ewes from purchase of 50 semen doses from Haddon Rig, Poll F. No. Pastora, Poll F. No. 1090. 1409 (Mulloorie, Poll F. No. 793 bred) and 50 ewes from Sims Uardry, Poll F. No. 1387.

St Hilary, F. No. 5084 - Bukkulla St Hilary was founded in June 2011 and registered in October 2012, by M.I. and K.E. Wall (Mick and Kirsty), trading as Leeholme Pastoral Company, by the purchase of 1 ram and 100 ewes from Egelabra, F. No. 32. CORA Kialami, Poll F. No. 1474 - Armidale R’gd Flock No 1289 R’gd Flock No P1420 This stud was founded in 1990 and registered in January 2013 by Charles Home Belfield, trading as Kialami Pastoral Company, by the purchase of 1676 semen doses LYNN and 51 ewes from Lorelmo, Poll. F. No. 430 and 125 semen doses from Petali Poll, Poll F. No. 1279. Merino & Poll Brecon, Poll F. No. 1478 - Cootamundra John and Jacquie Brooker founded Brecon Poll stud in December 2012 and registered in March 2013, trading as Studs John Brooker, by the purchase of 50 semen doses from Bundilla, Poll F. No. 1435 and 50 ewes from Sims Uardry, The Complete Merino Solution Poll F. No. 1387. Manawa, Poll F. No. 1479 - Berridale 26th Annual Manawa Poll was founded in November 2011 and registered in March 2013 by Leon and Shirley Clarke, On-Property Ram Sale trading as L.N. Clarke, by the purchase of 2 rams and 50 ewes from West Plains, Poll F. No. 1236. Wednesday September 25th 2013

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8 9 10 His simple and idealised image of the Merino ram neatly connected the most recent minting of coins with those that were originally struck around 640 BCE. The Australian issue is directly descended from those coins minted by the authority of Croesus. Representative designs on coins, with their religious, economic and political motifs have long had defining Once, a moments; the precedence of striking idealised impressions as a method of conveying meaning is well established. Images which were most familiar went splendid coin some way in raising the level of the acceptance of the original issues. Striking the idealised image of a Merino ram upon the shilling coin follows in the aesthetic tradition established by those who had designed the coins of the — an Arcadian story behind the Lydian tyrants. 1938 shilling The origin of coins is wrapped in as much mystery as the origin of the fine wool sheep. In this narrow view of the evolution of coins and the Merino sheep, I have attempted By STEPHEN BURNS to connect the 1938 Australian issue with all the myth and In 1932 at the Sydney Sheep Show a Merino ram from romance that has gone into this Arcadian illusion. Uardry, Hay, was judged the grand champion of the It was right that the matriarchal Bengali-Spanish sheep premier event of its kind in the world. Uardry 0.1 was grazing the saltbush steppes were seen to be descended considered by all who viewed him as the most beautiful from the Biblical flocks of the patriarchs. It was right that sheep seen up until that time. their significance should be represented on the national Variously described as having “all the characteristics of coinage. greatness in his splendidly-modelled body, his strong Fine Merino wool had proven itself Australia’s most head and horns, and his beautiful, soft, richly-crimped faithful commodity. For a century and a half, the nation fleece”, the pristine promise of scientific expectation was had ridden to economic and political independence on recognised in his vernacular balance. The Australian the back of the Merino sheep. The wool from those great Merino, of which Uardry 0.1 is only one of many, is a flocks that grazed the western slopes and plains ensured perfect example of the challenging forces of nature, the financial stability necessary for the social growth of continually being adapted to better suit the contemporary equality in a new nation. environment. It was fitting, that almost at the end of the wonderful Specifically bred by Neilson Mills, studmaster at Uardry, ‘golden age of wool’, it should be ultimately to be both beautiful and productive his archetypal image commemorated with what was once, a splendid coin. was impressed upon the reverse of the shilling issued as part of the new coinage to acknowledge the assumption This book is now in the process of being published and to the British throne by George VI in 1938. By coincidence, will soon be available for general distribution. the new coinage also celebrated the sesquicentenary of Further information: Contact Stephen Burns by email at European settlement in New South Wales. [email protected] In Uardry 0.1, Neilson Mills had concentrated millennia of sheep evolution, creating a masterpiece as vital as any Rodin sculpture or Picasso expression. In turn, George Uardry 0.1 – it Kruger Gray, an English artisan, mostly known for his is impossible designs of stained-glass cathedral windows, designed an to ignore the exquisite image for the 1938 shilling. irrepressible charm in his soft nose, his kind eyes and majestic spread of Pictured with the horns. champion strong wool ram of the 1991 Sydney Sheep Show from NSW Pastoral Wonga’s Mr Culley Company’s Raby stud, Warren, are With Once, a Splendid Coin, due for August release, stud manager, Bob Stephen Burns has turned his talents to a new project. Ellis, the company’s A book on Mr Tom Culley of Wonga and his influence managing director, on the Merino industry is now well under way. John Muir, and author of Once, a If any readers have recollections of Mr Culley (or Splendid Coin and photos) that they would like to share, Mr Burns would the coming book on welcome your input. Mr Culley, Stephen Burns. He can be contacted by email on [email protected]

11 ewe in the August- shorn and March- Featuring shorn sections. The reserve grand champion March- Merinos shorn ram and ewe were from George and Sally at Dubbo Falkiner’s Haddon Rig Merino stud, Warren. The Merino was the feature breed at the 2013 Landmark NSW Sheep show held in early May in conjunction with Graham the annual Dubbo show. Fifteen breeds of sheep and 880 and Susan exhibits filled the McInnes Pavilion at the showground to Coddington’s make the event the biggest sheep show in NSW. Coddington Poll stud, Dubbo, Wyuna, Haddon Rig, Weealla, Wirrilla, Tambua, dominated the Coddington Poll and Roseville Park studs competed in grass-fed section, August-shorn, March-shorn and grass-fed classes over taking out fine, Grant Judd and Matthew Coddington, Roseville the 2½ day show which was judged by Oliver Wythes, fine/medium and Park, Dubbo, with the Landmark NSW Sheep Rockdale stud, Canowindra. medium/strong Show’s champion long wool interbreed ewe. Supreme exhibit was the grand champion ram from wool honours as well as grand and reserve champion Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park, Dubbo, grass-fed ewe classes. a fine/medium 18.3-micron ram bred by embryo transfer, Grand champion ram in the grass-fed section was shown by Nerstane’s N151 sire and from RP9-15, a full sister to by Weealla stud with the Evans family, Tambua Poll stud, industry leading sire RP9-14. Cobar, in reserve. Oliver Wythes said that the Roseville Park ram was “The Weealla ram was long bodied with plenty of stretch, “well finished with bright, soft wool and had an excellent depth and thickness and very good wool for his age,” Mr underline on a very good body”. Wythes said. Reserve grand champion was a medium wool ram from Roseville Park’s grand champion ewe went on to compete the McBurnie family, Weealla, Balladoran. in the interbreed competition for the best long wool ewe Roseville Park ewes were also recognised, taking home against the Corriedale, Border Leicester and SAMMs champion ribbons in the fine/medium, medium/strong and champions and was named the supreme interbreed long Poll Merino classes as well as grand champion Merino wool ewe of the show. WINNER OF 6 Tooth Production Class Sydney Royal 2012 Demondrille Fox 9818 Cut 14.3kg 17.0 micron 2.6 SD / 15.2CV 120kg Shorn / EMA 43cm2

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A former president of the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders (AASMB) and World Federation of throughout the world and to the maintenance of a good Merino Breeders (WFMB) recently received an honour that and cooperative relationship between member countries,” is perhaps little known in Australia but has had 400,000 said Mr Romatet. recipients since inception in France in 1883. Mr Keamy joins the ranks of former French presidents Glen Keamy, Claremont, WA, formerly of Cardo stud, among others who, by their actions, have “benefited the Watheroo, has been presented with the Chevalier du French agriculture and products”. l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole (Knight of the National Order of In his time as president of the WFMB, Mr Keamy has Agricultural Merit). worked tirelessly to promote the Merino breed throughout Mr Keamy was guest of honour in early May at the French the world and was very actively involved in organisation Embassy in Yarralumla, Canberra, ACT, where, joined by of the highly successful World Merino Conference in his his wife Julie and industry colleagues, he was presented home-town of Perth in 2006. More recently he worked with the special award by the French Ambassador to with the organising committee at the Bergerie Nationale, Australia, Stéphane Romatet, representing the French Rambouillet, France, in planning for the conference held Minister for Agriculture, Stéphane le Foll. at that location in 2010. “During your eight years as president of the World He is also credited with expanding the federation to Federation of Merino Breeders you have largely 13 member countries through the enrolment of China, contributed to promoting the breeding of Merino sheep Romania and Lesotho and the re-signing of France.

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16 Geoff and Jill Chapman’s flock, “Nyangay”, Booroorban, on Bluebush Poll blood took the Pooginook Merino stud trophy for second in the southern area. They also took home the Ian Lilburne Short Wool Award and Elanco Animal Health Encouragement Award. Bill and Diane Hookes of “Warwillah”, Booroorban, won the Elders Best New Entry award, and the Riverina Wool Draw went to Tupra. Spirits were high in a crowd drawn from Victoria, western and central NSW and local areas to view the eight entrants’ flocks. Judge Cam Munro joined the two-day event from Egelabra Merino stud at Warren while Roger Polkinghorne is principal of Charinga, Banavie and Gowandale studs, Victoria. Associate judge Allan Vagg of “Furlong”, Hillston, is currently stud overseer of the Wanganella and Poll Boonoke studs. Four flocks were exhibited in the country north of Hay on the first day, including, “Merritop”, “Yamba” and David and Barbara Butchers’ “Bronte”, Mossgiel, and the McLachlan owned “Tupra”. Glen Caldow, “Alma”, Booligal, has young David, On day two spectators visited “Steam Plains”, “Warwillah”, 3, right in his shadow, and in step. “Nyangay” and “Budgewah”, as well as last years’ Photo Margie McClelland winning flock, Paraway Pastoral’s “Mungadal”, managed by Jock Campbell. About 80 people gathered at the presentation dinner to observe as the judges scored and commented on the Discussions over both days of the event included contending flocks. watering systems, rabbit control, working dogs, motor bike safety, flock vaccinations, ever-changing marketing The competition is a great opportunity for visitors to tour environments, drought feeding and rotational grazing the renowned Hay pastoral country, seeing some of its programs. A highlight of the two days was viewing iconic properties with excellent, quality Merino ewes that Paraway Pastoral’s newly built shearing shed on “Steam are bred in the district. Plains”, Conargo. There was much discussion on its size, Further information: Susan Hanna, secretary, open plan structure and equipment. ph 0408 259 314.

17 “We are about gathering and disseminating information and instigating research where we see a need,” he said. “We want to build our businesses, client businesses and the sheep industry’s profitability as a whole. “We are not about replicating other organisations in the industry; we just want to help sheep breeders make better use of the work already being done, by building networks and adding value to existing and future research and development. New research “Growers and service providers don’t all have the same contacts and networks or access to the same industry organisations, so by linking our knowledge we hope we promotion can aid in facilitating discussion between growers, industry and researchers.” The group’s founding members include large corporate group operations, family enterprises and commercial and stud breeders. The founding board includes Rick Baldwin; Matthew By CAROL TRAINOR Coddington, Roseville Park, Dubbo; Marty Moses, Moses A new Merino grower group is helping link sheep & Son, Temora; Carol Huggins, Woodpark Poll, Hay; breeders more closely with the information they need to Michael Field, T.A. Field Estates; Robert Mortimer, Centre improve the profitability of their business. Plus Poll, Tullamore; Craig Wilson, genetic consultant and classer, Wagga Wagga; James Armstrong, Australian MerinoLink is a not-for-profit group that grew out of the Mega Merinos, Cassilis; and Sally Martin, former NSW information that growers heard and shared at a series Agriculture sheep & wool officer. of trial field days and seminars held at Temora’s former Agricultural Research Station. “This is a grower and service provider group that’s in touch with what’s happening and looking long term,” Mr The breeders, from family and corporate commercial Baldwin said. Merino breeding operations and Merino studs, want to help deliver access to the best industry information “We want our growers to be at the leading edge.” available and link group members with research and Further information: www.merinolink.com.au industry organisations. Founding chairman, Rick Baldwin, Bundilla stud, Young, said the new group was formed as farmers appeared increasingly likely to have to find out their own information for business and stock improvement. “We want to foster discussion and networking among like-minded Merino producers and service providers, working with existing organisations such as AWI, MLA and the Sheep CRC, as well as private industry, to get hold of good quality information and be part of helping put it into practice on-farm,” Mr Baldwin said. “We don’t want to be political, we just want to be profitable Poll Flock No. 1095 and learn about and promote the Merino and we see this will help us achieve that. ON-PROPERTY RAM SALE “We also see big opportunities for mentoring and networking to help spread information more widely and Friday 18 October 2013 encourage others in our industry,” he said. “We want to be at the leading edge in sheep technologies - both genetic and management – so members can readily identify and access superior genetics and management techniques.” Mr Baldwin said this would be through conferences, work- shops, seminars, field days and written communication.

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weather, the Braddocks have also noticed the sheep do not have a check or go backwards in condition. There is a constant weight Cheap insurance gain after shearing. Before using when shearing Thermoskin, the Braddocks said they Jon and Catherine Braddock of “Jibolaro”, 50 kilometres would toss and east of Cooma, NSW, no longer worry about their shorn turn worrying sheep being out in bad weather. throughout the Every time they shear their 3000 ewes, they use night. They Thermoskin as they have now done for the past five years. would quite regularly have “Jibolaro” is in tough country where the weather can to shed sheep change at the drop of a hat, and the biggest chance for off-shears when the weather turned bad. This was not losses is in summer. Shearing takes place twice a year; only time consuming and stressful, it interrupted grazing the ewes in May and lambs in January and February. and meant the sheep were grazing only on paddocks One year there was 5 inches of rain after shearing and near the sheds. there were 700 sheep in an open paddock. Only one Since using Thermoskin, the Braddocks now use their died which was put down to natural causes. four weather sheds to keep sheep dry before shearing Another year there was sleeting snow immediately after – the sheds are redundant for shedding the sheep after shearing; instead of the sheep being hunched up in shearing. timber, they were feeding on the flat. “We would not consider shearing now without using In addition to the comfort of knowing shorn sheep are Thermoskin. It is cheap insurance for us,” Jon Braddock being protected by Thermoskin when out in cold and wet said.

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20 following account details. Remind the broker that an identifiable name should be included in the Wool for wings transaction information. The NSW Stud Merino Breeders Association (NSW Account name: R.F.D.S. Working Account SMBA) is asking all members to support the Royal Bank: Community Mutual Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in NSW by donation BSB: 932 000 in-kind to the RFDS south-eastern section based at Account Number: 725150 s3.1 Dubbo in the NSW Central West. You should also ask your broker or dealer to then Woolgrower and former Mayor of Gilgandra, Max email your name and address to Margaret Smith Zell, was behind the Wool for Wings campaign at [email protected] and a tax deductible which has been taken up by other woolgrowers in receipt will be forwarded to you. the area with the support of their wool brokers. Your donation will help the RFDS save and improve “I was just clearing up the shearing shed and the lives of people living, working and travelling in pressing the oddments when I thought of selling remote, rural and regional Australia. the proceeds from the bale,” Mr Zell said. The RFDS is a not-for-profit, charitable His wool broker, Coggan Wool in Dubbo, was organisation that relies on funding from private happy to drop his brokerage fees and organise for donations, philanthropic grants, private trusts, the proceeds of the sale to be passed on to the events and community fundraising to provide more RFDS. than $20 million a year necessary to ensure its life- The NSW SMBA is hoping members will also saving services are maintained. take up this initiative and recommend it to their Your donation will be used in several ways to help clients. All that is required is to collect any skirtings the thousands of people who live, work and travel and oddments when cleaning out your shed in remote, rural and regional Australia. and on delivery to your wool broker ask that the Further information: Stuart Beveridge, proceeds be deposited in the RFDS south-eastern ph (02) 6882 2935 section account and provide the broker with the

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22 Pooginook embraces science Ray Norman, Illabo, has entered Australia’s biggest comparison of Merino genetics to benchmark his Pooginook blood flock. Photo Kim Woods By KIM WOODS male progeny as rams, enabling them to be part of the Breeding the “bread and butter” of the mixed farming Sheep CRC genomic pilot project. zones – dual-purpose Merinos – comes down to a mix of modern science and old-fashioned stock skills at Riverina In preliminary data, Pooginook Lehmann progeny have stud, Pooginook. recorded the highest average clean fleece weight of 112 per cent, the highest number of retained progeny at 73pc The Jerilderie-based stud has embraced a range of tools and lowest number of culls at 5pc. The progeny were to deliver superior seed stock, including benchmarking, also positive for fat and above average for eye muscle progeny testing, sire evaluation, parentage identification, depth. Mr Sutherland said Lehmann had proven to be an genomic testing, micron testing and ultrasound carcase elite sire within the stud, with outstanding sons among the measurements. This use of advanced genomic current drop of ram weaners. technology with proven visual classing methods is fast tracking genetic gain. At Pooginook, the weaners are managed along the principles of the Lifetime Ewe program with 100 and 300- Pooginook is one of 12 producers taking part in a large- day body weights recorded, and fleece weight and micron scale DNA testing trial conducted by the Sheep CRC taken at 11 months. This information is combined with as part of a genomics pilot project. A total of 102 rams ultrasound measurements of eye muscle depth and fat at have been genotyped to gather data on parentage, 200 days of age. identify carriers of the pure poll gene and to increase understanding of the flock’s genetic makeup. Fleece weights are collected on one-year-old ewes, and secondly, as rising two-year-olds just before lambing to Pooginook manager John Sutherland said genomics was provide adult fleece data to fine-tune their place in the being used to predict a range of breeding values to help stud. Classer, David Taylor, combines the performance with elite ram selection. He said the stud had worked with data and visual traits when finalising a classing decision. the Sheep CRC to evaluate how genomic testing could complement the proven technology and visual classing The stud’s drive to breed genuine self-replacing sheep for already in use at the stud. the mixed farming zones is paying dividends for clients. Mr Sutherland said selection for a polled, early maturing, “We will be ground truthing this result with phenotypic plain bodied animal with wool cut was winning producers data collected on rams for growth, micron, wool cut and away from the dual purpose breeds. carcase traits,” he said. “We are also gaining new commercial clients wanting Pooginook is using the genomic testing to identify rams to select rams with ASBVs from large contemporary and ewes carrying the pure poll gene. “The double poll groups,’’ he said. gene and parentage will help us fine-tune the elite sires within the stud and assist with AI sire traits,” Mr Sutherland Riverina woolgrowers Ray and Bev Norman, Illabo, are said. benchmarking their Pooginook blood flock through the 2012-2014 Peter Westblade Memorial Merino Challenge. This year, 1100 special stud ewes have been artificially inseminated to leading industry poll sires. The couple’s team of 30 wethers is among 60 teams from four states being comprehensively measured for wool and Pooginook introduced Pedigree Matchmaker for the first meat traits. time last year, using the program to capture maternal pedigree information on 1400 single mated progeny. At the first challenge shearing in April, the Norman’s team placed in the top nine teams with an average greasy wool The stud has contributed rams to Australian Merino Sire weight of 6.7kg, average micron of 17.6 and wool value of Evaluation extensively since 2007. $50 (based on a five-year average wool price). Pooginook stud sire, Lehmann 104160, has emerged as The couple runs 5500 Pooginook blood ewes in a leader in the Bluechip Livestock Young Sire Program, conjunction with a cropping enterprise. Bev said the dual an innovative trial aiming to identify Australia’s leading purpose Pooginook sheep suited their mixed farming young Merino sires. The program is independently testing enterprise with profitable wool and carcase traits. 10 NSW and Western Australian Merino rams by artificial insemination across 400 Poll Merino ewes, with the Pooginook will offer 250 top of the drop rams on-property progeny assessed for fleece, carcase and structural traits. on October 1 and also offers 1500 selected and flock A new initiative in sire evaluation, the program retains the Merino and Poll Merino rams for selection this year.

23 Midstate rams and racing

The thirteen members of the Midstate Merino Field Day Association selected a novel location on August 19 last year when they staged their 30th annual fixture at the Narromine Races. The main Merino event was the annual judging of the Elders Midstate premier hogget ram of the year, judged by Allan Dawson, Winyar stud, Canowindra. Roseville Park’s 2012 Elders Midstate hogget ram of the year with judge, He gave the nod to RP11-0010, the 18.4-micron ram from Allan Dawson, Winyar, Canowindra, Bevan Jolly, Elders, Dubbo, Matthew Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park, Dubbo, Coddington and Grant Judd, Roseville Park, Dubbo. which went on to win the champion medium wool March- shorn ram title at Dubbo. Runner-up at Narromine was a 19.4-micron ram exhibited Weighing in at 110kg, RP11-0010 tested 18.4-micron with by the Kopp family’s Towalba stud, Peak Hill. The ram had a 99.9 per cent comfort factor. He was sired by RP09- a standard deviation (SD) of 3.0-micron with 15.1CV and 0014 who was the winner of the Midstate title in 2010. weighed 111kg. Mr Dawson further showed his appreciation of RP11-0010 Gordon, Colleen and Garry Cox showed the third placed when he purchased it for $15,000 in a private sale after ram, an AI son of Nerstane 4636. The 17.6-micron ram the Dubbo showing. had an SD of 2.6, 14.8CV and a comfort factor of 100pc.

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Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek stud, Reids Flat, with the supreme exhibit, judge Oliver Wythes, sponsor National Australia Bank’s Peter Haynes, NMRBA president Support strong Sean Ballinger and judge Allan at Armidale Phillips.

By STEPHANIE VAN EYK Jack and Graham Newnham, Cara, Delungra, and Paul Woolgrowers had the opportunity to source top genetics Walton, Wurrook, Rokewood, Victoria, bought the ram, to improve their flock’s wool and meat yields with rams while the second top was purchased by Leo Blanch, offered by some of the country’s top studs in Armidale West Vale, Wollun, Allan Phillips, Glen Stuart, Deddington, earlier this year. Tasmania, and Bill Doak, Box Moor, Bundarra. Rams from 30 studs were sold at the 68th Northern Merino The van Eyk family, Shalimar Park, Wollun, paid $11,000 Ram Breeders Association Inc Armidale Housed Ram for a 17.2-micron Poll Merino ram from Chris Clonan, Show and Sale on February 5 and 6. The event, held at Alfoxton Poll stud, Armidale, while Michael Corkhill, Grassy the Armidale Exhibition Centre, drew buyers from across Creek, Boorowa, sold his supreme exhibit for $8000. Australia, including Western Australia, Tasmania and Sixty-one of the 92 rams offered sold for an average of Victoria. $3566, slightly down on the previous year where the top Although commercial buyer interest was lower than was $22,000. in previous years, there was strong support from stud Prior to the sale the rams were judged by Oliver Wythes, Merino buyers. Rockdale, Canowindra, in the medium and fine classes The Merriman family, Merryville, Boorowa, sold the two and Allan Phillips, Glen Stuart, Deddington, Tasmania, top-priced rams for $15,000 and $14,000 respectively. A judged the ultra and superfine classes. syndicate of Sean Ballinger, Waverley Downs, Delungra, The ribbons were shared among a number of studs, with

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26 Hillcreston Park, Alfoxton, Grassy Creek, Bocoble and Grathlyn featuring. The champion ultrafine ram was won by Hillcreston Carl Carlon (centre) with his Park, Bigga, while the reserve champion went to the Northern Merino Cox family’s Bocoble stud, Mudgee, and the champion Ram Breeders superfine ram was taken out by Alfoxton, with Grathlyn, Association life Hargraves, picking up the reserve. membership and sons Des (left) and Grassy Creek and Alfoxton won champion and reserve in Brett (right). the fine wool ram category and Bob Walters, Middle View, Dalgety, had the champion fine medium ram with the reserve going to Murray Power, Airlie Merinos, Nowendoc. Grassy Creek exhibited the supreme exhibit, while the The industry was saddened to hear that just days after the reserve was won by an Alfoxton ram. show and sale Mr Walters passed away. At the show, Carl Carlon was presented with life The Rayner family, Grathlyn, Hargraves, exhibited the membership of the Northern Merino Ram Breeders champion August-shorn ram while Shalimar Park won the Association (NMRBA). Mr Carlon began his term as reserve and Alfoxton had the champion pen of three rams. president in 1987 and helped draw up a constitution that saw Armidale continue as a major destination for stud ram buyers. During his time as president, the sales were held at the Elliott Pavilion and later at the selling complex in Canambe Street that was destroyed by hail. Mr Carlon said he was very honoured to have been president of the NMRBA and grateful for the support of the committee and agents during his term. Following the show Elders hosted the “meet and greet” and exhibitors and visitors enjoyed refreshments and nibbles. Next year’s Northern Merino Ram Breeders Association Bob Walters, Middle View, Dalgety, with the champion fine medium ram show and sale will be held on February 4 and 5. ram; Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek, Reids Flat, with champion fine Catalogues will be available online from mid January at wool ram; judge Oliver Wythes; National Australia Bank’s Pater Haynes; www.armidalemerinoramshowandsale.webs.com Chris Clonan, Alfoxton, Armidale, with the champion superfine ram; NMRBA president Sean Ballinger; judge Allan Phillips; and Danny Picker, Further information: NMRBA president, Sean Ballinger, Hillcreston Park, Bigga, with the champion ultrafine ram. ph (02) 6724 8386 or email [email protected]

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27 The Top Twenty

NSW TOP RAM SALES 2012 * NSW TOP SEMEN SALES 2012 * Stud Rams Sold Stud Doses 1 Egelabra 1253 1 Centre Plus Poll 2764 2 Pooginook/Pooginook Poll 1225 2 Roseville Park/Roseville Park Poll 2700 3 Poll Boonoke/Wanganella 1022 3 Nerstane 2335 4 Haddon Rig/Haddon Rig Poll 859 4 Sims Uardry/Sims Uardry Poll 1556 5 Uardry/Sims Uardry/Sims Uardry Poll 749 5 Yalgoo 1430 6 Roseville Park/Roseville Park Poll 736 6 Bundilla Poll 1045 7 Pastora Poll 640 7 One Oak/One Oak No 2 970 8 Merryville/Merryville Poll/Merryville Murgha 579 8 Poll Boonoke/Wanganella 764 9 Woodpark Poll 490 9 Pastora Poll 670 10 Kerin Poll 472 10 Langdene 630 11 Nerstane/Nerstane Poll 470 11 Grassy Creek/Grassy Creek Poll 585 12 Centre Plus Poll 444 12 Hazeldean 500 13 Yarrawonga/Yarrawonga Poll 400 13 Lachlan Merinos/Lachlan Poll 385 14 Mullengudgery/Mullengudgery Poll 398 14 West Plains Poll 369 15 Bundilla/Bundilla Poll 387 15 Petali Poll 345 16 Hazeldean 344 16 Richmond 310 17 One Oak/One Oak No 2 340 17 Kerin Poll 291 17 Mumblebone 286 18 Willandra Poll 260 19 Willandra/Willandra Poll 285 19 Blyth 215 20 Goolgumbla 281 20 Glenwood 160

* Extracted from 2012 Annual Returns as at 15 May 2013 Sales from two or more studs of the same owner are combined. “The Top Twenty” is published each year as a record from Annual Returns.

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29 Tablelands ewe comp creates interest

The 14th annual Tablelands Flock Ewe Competition, centred on Mudgee in central west NSW, continues to Ewes from the winning flock of the Inder family, “Wattle Grove”, create interest within the Merino industry in that area of the Dunedoo. State. First place in the 2013 competition went to last year’s This year 16 flocks were visited and assessed over a winners, the Inder family, Wattle Grove Partnership, two day period on February 20 and 21 by judges, Clive “Wattle Grove” Dunedoo. The Langdene blood ewes Pearson, Glenbrook stud, Armidale and Murray Power, impressed judges, who described them as large framed Airlie, Walcha with associate, Mitch Darlington, Dunedoo. and extremely productive, carrying a good white wool Arguably one of the more diverse competitions conducted type. within NSW in terms of sheep types and bloodlines, this Second place was taken out by first time entrants, the competition has continued to attract new competitors; in Dorman family, “Dapper”, Gulgong, with a very well fact two of the three placegetters were first time entrants. presented mob of Haddon Rig blood ewes. The judges Flocks were visited in the Mudgee, Hargraves, Pyramul, commented on the magnificent size and structure of the Ilford, Goolma, Dunedoo, Cassilis and Cooyal areas with Dapper ewes as well as the large amount of wool they judges and spectators travelling approximately 700km. carried.

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Inspection of ewes at the Watts family’s “Bolinda Vale”, Dunedoo.

Third place also went to a new entrant in the competition. Eric and Dawn Colley, “Wyoming”, Hargraves, presented a very tidy mob of Gilgunyah/Dunbogan blood ewes for the judges and spectators. The judges made special comment of “the wonderful, well-nourished wools of good style and colour” that the Wyoming ewes were carrying. Encouragement awards were presented to the Webb family, Cooyal Pastoral Co, “Cooyal Station”, Mudgee, and also to Donna White, “Pipeclay”, Mudgee, another first- time entrant. The Mudgee Show Society particularly thanks the very valued sponsors of the competition; Coopers Animal Health, Tomimbil Seeds, Elders, Australian Wool Network, Landmark, Don Macdonald & Co, Stock and Rural Gulgong, Rylstone Ag Supplies, Westoil Petroleum, Darryl & Irene Croake, McDonald Lawson, Milling Stuart and Southern Tablelands Fibre Testing. The competition is also sponsored and supported by local Merino studs, Bocoble, Laraben, Grathlyn, Pomanara, Maroombah, Cassilis Park, Pemcaw, Langdene, Allendale, Glanna and Ronjabar. Further information: Brett Cooper, ph 0407 136 129.

Judges Murray Power, Clive Pearson and associate Mitch Darlington.

31 Bendigo 2012

While Rohan Sprigg’s East Strathglen, Tambellup, WA, had the supreme exhibit and grand champion Merino ram and ewe, it was studs from NSW that conducted a ribbon-raid on the 2012 Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, Victoria, last July. Against exhibitors from all Merino breeding States, NSW studs took out 13 of the Agents and buyers involved in the sale by Peter, Cade and Jayne Lette remaining 21 grand champion ribbons, including the (extreme right), Conrayn, Berridale, of their $20,000 top-priced ram of the Lionel Weatherly Trophy for best exhibit of five Merinos; 2012 Australian Sheep & Wool Show ram sale. Wayne Jenkins photo exhibited the Australian Fleece Competition’s grand champion fleece; and topped the Merino Ram Sale. Good show for NSW East Tambellup’s successes also included the title of 2012 In the show ring Conrayn stud, Berridale, exhibited the Stock & Land National Merino Pair of the Year ahead of Lionel Weatherly group of five and grand champion Victorian State finalist, Oakbank, St Arnaud. superfine Merino ram. One Oak, Jerilderie, showed both Top six sales to NSW junior champion Merinos as well as the grand champion March-shorn ram. The top six prices at the annual ram sale in Bendigo were Alfoxton, Armidale had success with Merinos and Poll paid for rams from NSW, with Peter and Jayne Lette’s Merinos, repeating last year’s result with the best exhibit of Conrayn, Berridale, topping the order at $20,000. three Poll Merinos and backing up for the third successive The 17.4-micron ram, the show’s grand champion year with the grand champion Poll Merino ewe. The stud superfine ram, was sold to a syndicate of three studs, also showed the grand champion superfine Merino ewe. Leenavale, Sorell, Tasmania, and Victorian studs, Also with back-to-back wins were Nerstane, Woolbrook, Beverley and Wattlebank. taking another grand champion fine wool ram award and Earlier in the sale the lead ram from the offering by Wal Grathlyn, Hargraves with the grand champion ultrafine and George Merriman, Merryville, Boorowa, had sold for ram. Grathlyn also showed the grand champion March- $10,000. The 18.5-micron ram by Francesco the 3rd was shorn Merino ewe. bought by Sean and Judith Ballinger, Waverley Downs, Delungra. Merryville sold two further rams at the third top-price of $8,500; the same price also being achieved for rams from the Clonan family’s Alfoxton, Armidale, and the Cox family’s Langdene, Dunedoo. Overall 91 from 110 rams sold to $20,000 for an average of $3452.

George Merriman (right) is pictured with Australian Wool Network representatives, Brett Cox, Tasmania, and Ron Creek, Victoria, and the stud’s top-priced ram at the 2012 sale at Bendigo. By Francesco 3rd, the Chris Clonan, Alfoxton, Armidale and his grand champion Poll ewe of the ram sold for $10,000 to Sean and Judith Ballinger, Waverley Downs stud, 2012 Australian Sheep & Wool Show. Wayne Jenkins photo Delungra. Wayne Jenkins photo

32 Langdene, Dunedoo showed the grand champion fine wool ewe and was also runner-up for the third consecutive year in the Lionel Weatherly group. The stud also had the reserve champion fine wool ram, a 153kg 18.6-micron ram which sold a month later in Dubbo for the sale’s second-top price of $25,000. Other NSW studs to secure a grand championship were Pemcaw, Dunedoo, with the grand champion Poll Merino ram (later sold in Dubbo for a sale topping $44,000) and Roseville Park, Dubbo, with the grand champion unhoused Merino ram.

Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek Merino and Poll studs, Reids Flat, and the fleece that secured him the grand championship in the 2012 Australian Fleece Competition held during the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo. Photo courtesy The Land

Cade and Jayne Lette, Conrayn, Berridale, with their grand champion superfine wool ram. Wayne Jenkins photo Top fleeces from NSW The Australian Fleece Competition is the largest fully- measured fleece competition in the world, and in its 12th year, and for the third consecutive year, it was a fleece from NSW that won the coveted award. An 18.5-micron superfine Merino fleece from Michael and Jayne Corkhill’s Grassy Creek stud, Reids Flat, overcame more than 470 entries to take the award. Scoring 94.43 points out of a possible 100, the grand champion fleece was shorn from a 1½-year-old ewe which had been a member of the stud’s winning Roger Birtles March-shorn group at the Great Southern Supreme Merino show at Canberra last year. Reserve grand champion was a 14.8-micron extra ultrafine fleece exhibited by Clive and Natasha Pearson, Glenbrook stud, Armidale. Garry Cox, Langdene, Dunedoo, is pictured with his reserve champion fine wool ram which was sold in Dubbo a month later for $25,000. Rounding off an outstandingly successful trip to Bendigo Wayne Jenkins photo for Peter and Jayne Lette, their Conrayn stud was also the most successful exhibitor in the fleece competition. Westvale Merinos “Doing it in Fine Style”

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33 “The Australian wool market continued to fall last year and into 2013, after a steady re-adjustment back from well above average prices during the Reasons for previous wool selling season,” Mr White says. optimism - “Fine, superfine and ultrafine wool prices declined sharply while Rabobank backs wool we’ve seen medium, broad and crossbred prices find better support and remain While current wool prices have retreated from the highs elevated by historical standards. of recent seasons, there are reasons to remain optimistic “Looking at the year ahead, maintaining supply is a key about the outlook for wool leading into 2013/14, according challenge in the face of current seasonal conditions and to specialist agri lender Rabobank. rising input costs; however the overall fundamentals are Rabobank regional manager for southern New South positive for the sector.” Wales, Michael White, says this optimism is buoyed by Mr White says the Merino industry holds an iconic place in emerging wealth in Asia. the history of Australian agriculture. “We also cannot ignore the fact that, on average, income “Wool remains a vibrant industry within New South Wales growth in the main fine wool-consuming countries at the in particular, with a sound long-term outlook as can be retail level has not slowed to the lows of 2009, and this expected for such a versatile fibre,” he says. is expected to continue to regain momentum moving forward,” Mr White said. “As a leading financier to the agricultural industry, with a long-term view of its sectors, Rabobank is committed to Mr White says there are good prospects for wool maintaining its support to the sheep and wool industry.” consumption growth in China and Russia that are expected to increase competition for Australian fine wool exports in the longer term. Rabobank Australia & New Zealand is a part of the international It is well documented that China buys a significant Rabobank Group, the world’s leading specialist in food and amount of Australian raw wool. Equally significant is that agribusiness banking. Rabobank has more than 110 years’ China consumes approximately 40 to 50 per cent of all experience providing customised banking and finance solutions raw wool that it imports, and while the majority of this to businesses involved in all aspects of food and agribusiness. constitutes medium and broad wool, robust clothing retail Rabobank is structured as a cooperative and operates in 48 sales growth and China’s rapidly expanding luxury goods countries, servicing the needs of approximately 10 million market, suggest that there is also a good opportunity for clients worldwide through a network of fine wool consumption growth in China as well. more than 1600 offices and branches. Rabobank Australia & New Zealand is Mr White says the rapid expansion in the luxury goods one of Australasia’s leading rural lenders sector in China is the most “lucrative” opportunity for and a significant provider of business Australian wool, especially in the fine end of the market and corporate banking and financial with retail sales expected to grow reasonably well in the services to the region’s food and longer term. agribusiness sector. The bank has 93 “We’ve already begun to see the numerous multinational branches throughout Australia and New luxury fashion brands expand their presence in China Zealand. to capitalise on this opportunity – this is a good thing for Australian wool growers,” he says. With all good opportunities however, come hurdles and Mr White says the wool industry is not without its challenges.

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To win the supreme exhibit award at this year’s Sydney Sheep Show at the Sydney Royal, Merryville Grand Monarch 44th (see cover story, page 3), first had to overcome the serious challenge of OO Y311, the supreme ewe from Graham and Mary Wells’ One Oak stud, Jerilderie. The six judges were deadlocked until the latter stage of judging when the sheep were flipped over and their bellies inspected. The impressive One Oak ewe had won through the March-shorn medium wool class judged by Ryan O’Dea, Peepingee, Nomans Lake, Western Australia. “She’s got great staple length and quality of wool on a beautiful square, structurally sound frame,” Mr O’Dea Ross Wells, Willandra stud, Jerilderie, sashes his brother’s One Oak said. grand champion medium wool Merino ewe, held by Graham Wells, One The ewe measured 17.1-micron, 3.1-micron standard Oak stud, Jerilderie. The ewe went on to be supreme Merino ewe of the deviation (SD), 18.1per cent coefficient of variation (CV) 2013 Sydney Sheep Show. Photo courtesy The Land and 99.9pc comfort factor (CF). She was by Roseville Park 14 and is an ET sister to OO Y304 which sold for $21,000 in Adelaide last year to White River stud, Minnipa, South The entire team was by TP4202, which also sired Tara Australia. Park’s 2009 Stonehaven Cup winning team and the stud’s supreme ewe of last year’s show. OO Y311 also won the 2 to 4-tooth objective measurement class held at the end of the show. The 20.1-micron team leader was winner of the Tom Culley award for best junior Merino exhibit and others in The supreme ewe broad ribbon was among the the team included the 20.5-micron reserve champion 19 won by One Oak at this year’s show with other medium wool ram, the 17.3-micron grand champion fine/ awards including the March-shorn pair (for the second medium ewe and the 18.3-micron reserve junior ewe. consecutive year), reserve grand champion ewe to the ultimate supreme ewe, grand champion strong wool ram The team from Merryville was second-placed in the and, for the third year in a row, most successful exhibitor Stonehaven Cup with One Oak third. in strong and medium wool classes. Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park stud, Guy Evans of Tara Park, Boorowa, was delighted with the Dubbo, won the Bruce Merriman Memorial Perpetual stud’s results at this year’s Sydney showing, but what he Trophy with all five in the group being ET bred and by was “most chuffed” about was securing the March-shorn RP14. These included the champion August-shorn fine most successful exhibitor award with only nine sheep at wool ewe and champion August-shorn fine/medium ewe. the show. Roseville Park was also most successful exhibitor in Five of these combined to give the stud a back-to-back August-shorn classes. win in the highly contested Stonehaven Cup, the stud’s The Otway Falkiner Perpetual Cup for the best exhibit of eighth. five Poll Merino sheep went to Chris and Cindy Clonan’s Alfoxton Poll stud, Armidale; the first time the stud has competed for this trophy. Merryville Poll was second and Ken and Kim Noakes, Karowara Plains Poll, Bedgerabong, Guy Evans, Tara were third. Park, Boorowa, with his grand With 19 broad ribbons secured across Merino and Poll champion fine classes, including grand champion superfine Merino ewe medium wool and the grand championships in the fine and fine/medium ram that also Poll ewe classes, Alfoxton Poll also collected the most won the Tom Culley Award for successful exhibitor award in August-shorn Poll classes. supreme junior Sixteen teams were on the mat for the right to represent Merino exhibit of NSW in the Stock & Land National Pairs competition at the the Show. Wayne Jenkins photo Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo in July with the Rayner family’s Grathlyn, Hargraves, the successful pair.

36 Michael and Jane Corkhill’s Grassy Creek Poll stud, The grand champion Poll Merino ewe which had Reids Flat, took out grand champion Poll Merino ram and appeared in Sydney last year as the Tom Culley award ewe titles with offspring of the Western Australian ram winner for best junior exhibit, measured 17.6-micron, Coromandel 2 “Sir Thomas”. 2.3 SD, 13.6pc CV and 99.9pc CF. She was also grand The ram, which came through from the March-shorn fine champion ewe at this year’s GSSM. wool classes, measured 19.3-micron, 2.6 SD, 13.5pc CV The grand champion Merino fleece of this year’s Royal and 99.7pc CF. was a 17.9-micron superfine fleece exhibited by Ray and In 2012 it had also been champion fine wool March-shorn Margaret Wise, Kilburnie, The Rock. From a two-year-old ram at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo. stud ewe, the nine kilogram (greasy) fleece had earlier At this year’s Great South Supreme Merino Show and won the top-making type wool championship with a score Sale (GSSM), Canberra, he was also the champion of 94 points from a possible 100. March-shorn fine wool Poll ram and reserve grand For the second consecutive year, David and Tina champion Poll ram. Watson’s Maister’s Swamp, Kentucky, won The Thomas Farquhar Hodgson Memorial Perpetual Trophy for the most successful fleece exhibitor. Ten years ago at this fixture, Maryanne Alcock from Greenland stud, then based at Nimmitabel, won the RAS/ASC Merino Sheep State Judging Competition. Her thirteen-year-old brother, Greg, watched on as Egelabra manager, Cam Munro, presented the inaugural Hugh Lydiard Memorial trophy to Maryanne. This year, on his 23rd birthday, Greg won the right to have his name engraved on this trophy as well as the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association (NSW SMBA) silver salver. Greg’s prizes also include $700 cash and a silver mug from the NSW SMBA. He now goes on to compete in the Nationals to be held in New Zealand in December. For information and closing date for Merino sheep and fleece entries in the 2014 Sydney Sheep Show at the Sydney Royal, contact Megan Giannini, RAS coordinator 100 years ago: At the 1913 Sydney Sheep Show, sheep competitions, ph (02) 9704 1227 or email the grand champion ram was exhibited by R. T. [email protected] Gibson, Esk Vale, Tasmania. dinadina merino stud

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38 Leo Blanch, West Vale stud, Grathlyn stud, Wollun, stands Hargraves, with his grand exhibited the grand champion champion ultrafine ultrafine wool wool Merino ram. Merino ewe Pictured with for the second exhibitors Max, Gai consecutive year, and Andrew Rayner, as it is sashed by is judge, Philip John McLaren, Carlon, Queenlee Nerstane stud, stud, Uralla (second Woolbrook, and from left). held by stud Photo courtesy The Land manager, Scott Matthews.

50 years ago: After winning the Stonehaven Cup on the stud’s first attempt the previous year, Uardry stud, Hay, backed up to win the prestigious trophy at the 1963 Sydney Sheep Show held in late May. The stud also showed the grand champion strong wool ram and with a total clearance of 56 rams, had the top average of £1130 at the Sydney Ram Sales that followed the show, the stud’s top-priced ram selling for 4500 guineas ($9450). Bundemar, Warren, fetched the top price that year with a 5400 guineas sale ($11,340).

Margaret and Ray Wise, Kilburnie, The Rock with their grand champion fleece of the 2013 Show. Photo courtesy The Land

With the feature breed of this year’s Sydney Sheep Show being the fine wool Merino, Roseville Park stud, Dubbo, took out grand and reserve grand champion titles. Pictured are Brett Cooper, Australian Wool Network, Mudgee, and Tessa Coddington with the grand champion, while sister, Savannah and father, Matthew, are with the reserve grand champion. Photo courtesy The Land

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39 DEMANDFORONEOAKSTUDSIRES SEMEN2012 h ‡ƒǯ•–‘’ͺ•–—†•‹”‡•ƒ˜‡”ƒ‰‡̈́ͳ͵ǡͲͲͲ –‘ͺ•–—†•ǡǡ‹ ǡǡŽ†Ǥ‘’‘ˆ ̈́ʹͳǡͲͲͲǡ†‡Žƒ‹†‡ƒƒŽ‡–‘Š‹–‡‹˜‡” ‡”‹‘–—†Ǥ h ‡‡•‘Ž†–‘ǡ‹ ǡǡŽ†ǡƒ•Ǥ SemenfromOneOaktopsires OOY11-304 Sold 2012 Adelaide Ram Sale for availableǦ$40perdose $21,000 to White River Merino Stud, S.A. Offering at Hamilton & Dubbo ON-PROPERTY RAM AUCTION: Thursday 26 September 2013 Contact Graham Wells Ph: (03) 5886 1269 Mob: 0428 442 930 Email: [email protected] Web: www.oneoakmerinos.com.au MORE MEAT MORE WOOL MORE DOLLARS The proof is in the trial h ONEOAKCLIENTSMEATCHALLENGEWINNERSFROM59MERINOENTRIES,PWMCTEMORA  ‡•—Ž–•ˆ‘”–‡ƒ‡–”›„›–‡’Š‡‘‘Ž‡Ƭ‘›‘‘„‡•ǡ‡††‡”„—”ǡ‹ ǣ    ‹˜‡™‡‹‰Š–ǣ͸ʹǤ͹‰Ǧ͵”†    ƒ” ƒ•‡™‡‹‰Š–ǣ͵Ͳ‰Ǧʹ†    ƒ” ƒ•‡Ȁ•‹˜ƒŽ—‡ǣ̈́ͳʹͺǤ͵ͶǦͳ•–ȋ̈́ʹǤͳͲƒ„‘˜‡ʹ†Ǣ̈́ͳ͹ƒ„‘˜‡‰”‘—’ƒ˜ǤȌ hŠ‡ˆ‘—”‡ƒ Ž‹‡–•™Š‘‡–‡”‡†–”‹ƒŽ•ʹͲͳͲȀͳͳƬʹͲͳʹȀͳ͵™‡”‡’Žƒ ‡†‹–Š‡ –‘’ʹͷΨˆ‘” ‘„‹‡†‡ƒ–Ƭ™‘‘Ž–”ƒ‹–•Ǥ

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40 The RAS Sydney Royal Sheep Show, steward- in-chief, Robert Ryan, sashes the grand champion Poll Merino ram, a March-shorn fine wool, held by the exhibitor, Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek Poll stud, Reids Flat. Photo courtesy The Land h Winner of the RAS/ASC Merino Sheep State Judging Competition, Greg Alcock, Greenland Merino and Poll studs, Bungarby, pictured with the stud’s reserve grand champion Poll Merino ram. h

The Otway Falkiner Perpetual Cup winning team of five Poll Merinos exhibited by Alfoxton Poll stud, Armidale, is held by John Newsome and Scott Thrift of Elders; Dan Korff, Avington stud, Sidonia, Victoria; Greg Andrews, Schute Bell Badgery Lumby; and exhibitor, Chris Clonan. Photo courtesy The Land MORE MEAT MORE WOOL MORE DOLLARS The proof is in the trial h

Greg Andrews, wool and livestock coordinator, Schute Bell Badgery Lumby, Yennora, sashes the NSW Merino Pair of the Year, shown by Grathlyn stud, Hargraves. Holding the ram is Andrew Rayner of Grathlyn stud while John Croake, AWN, Tamworth, holds 75 years ago: The grand champion ram of the the ewe. 1938 Sydney Sheep Show, at which 547 Merinos Photo courtesy competed, was the champion strong wool ram The Land exhibited by H. E. Kater & Son, Egelabra, NSW, who also won the Stonehaven Cup for the best exhibit of five Merinos.

41 Sydney Sheep Show 2013

42 Rachel Maclean, Haddon Rig stud, Warren, sashes the grand champion Making a difference where it counts medium wool ram held by Sydney Royal Easter Show 2013 exhibitor, • 13 Broad Ribbons Russell Jones, Darriwell stud, • Stonehaven Cup (8th time) Trundle. • Supreme Junior Exhibit Photo courtesy • Grand Champion Fine/Medium Ram & Ewe The Land • Most Successful Exhibitor (March-shorn)

Tara Park’s 8th Stonehaven Cup-winning team - Sydney 2013 Canberra Royal 2013 • Best Open Group • Best Pair • Supreme Medium Wool Exhibit Yass 150th Annual Show • 10 Broad Ribbons • Supreme Exhibit

Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek Poll Merino stud, Reids Flat, holds his grand champion Poll Merino ewe as it is sashed by Megan Giannini, the RAS sheep coordinator. This ewe was the superfine wool March-shorn champion. Photo courtesy The Land

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25 years ago: At the Sydney Bicentennial Sheep ON-PROPERTY RAM AUCTION Show in 1988, John and Marion Williams of Thalaba RD Pastoral Company’s Koonwarra stud, Crookwell, MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2013, 1pm won the Stonehaven Cup, one of ten occasions in which they carried off the trophy between 1972 and Guy & Anna Evans Rod & Adrienne 1995. The stud’s grand champion medium wool Ph: (02) 6385 3615 Ph: (02) 6385 3288 ram was also that year’s supreme Merino exhibit, an award also secured by Koonwarra in 1980, 1982 Mob: 0427 439 102 Mob: 0428 853 288 and 1986. Web: www.tarapark.com.au Email: [email protected]

43 Second placing at $331.90 was a Grassy Creek stud ram from Reids Flat, while a One Oak stud ram from Jerilderie, was placed third at $331.40. One Oak breeders Graham and Mary Wells, entered their supreme Merino ewe in the 2-4 tooth class which returned a total of $369.00, against three other ewes. Objective The 17.1-micron medium wool grand champion ewe is embryo transfer-bred by Roseville Park 9.14 and from a One Oak stud ewe. A full flush brother sold to White River stud, Minnipa, South Australia, last September for measurement at $21,000. The supreme ewe weighed 77kg after shearing and produced a 10kg fleece yielding 82.4pc and valued at Sydney Royal $107.11. Another One Oak ewe was placed second. Weighing The objective measurement class came of age at Sydney 71.5kg it had a 17.6-micron fleece weighing 10.6kg with a Royal this year, attracting the elite of the judging ring total value of $344.20. including the supreme Merino ewe and a grand champion Merryville stud, Boorowa won the six tooth and over ram ram. class with a fine-medium ram from the Merryville Uniform A total of thirteen rams and nine ewes were judged over family. Exhibitor, Wally Merriman, Boorowa, said the ram two classes each, divided into two to four tooth and six has been used in the stud flock last year, but this was its tooth and over. first showing. Heading the 2-4 tooth ram class was the Darriwell Merino It weighed 113.5kg after shearing a 12.4kg fleece of stud’s grand champion medium wool March shorn ram, 18.1-micron wool yielding 75.2pc and valued at $116.66. shown by the Jones family, Trundle. The sire of this ram The ram’s total value was $409.00 and its eye muscle was Darriwell 8.2, the reserve grand champion of the measured 42mm with a fat depth of 4.2mm. 2010 Rabobank National in Dubbo. Second to Merryville was a Demondrille ram from Harden. The 19-micron ram, weighing 117.5 kilograms after The sixth tooth and over ewe class was won by a shearing, had grown a 19.2kg fleece, the heaviest wool Greenland stud ewe from the Alcock family at Bungarby. cut of the show. Yielding 71.6 per cent, it was valued at This ewe weighed 87.5kg shorn and produced a 7.7kg $165.68. fleece (worth $78.88) of 17.3-micron yielding 78pc and The ram had an eye muscle of 36 millimetres and fat her total value was $390.20. depth of 4mm and total value of $397.00. Source: Courtesy The Land newspaper

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44 OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT CLASSES – SYDNEY 2013  CLASS 400: Ram, not more than 4 and not less than 2 tth STUD MIC FLC YLD % LWT EM FD FLC WT VALUE SUB SCORE TOTAL PLACE DARRIWELL 19.0 71.6 117.5 36 4 19.2 kg $165.68 61 397.0 1 GRASSY CREEK 17.5 77.5 115 38 6 11.5 kg $107.60 65 331.9 2 ONE OAK 16.1 72.6 105 29 3.5 11.7 kg $137.00 69 331.4 3 ADINA 19.1 75.4 114.0 36 6 12.3 kg $119.34 61 315.1 4 MERRYVILLE 16.1 81.4 92 41 3 9.2 kg $113.29 64 295.8 5 ONE OAK 18.5 76.9 108 32 4 10.7 kg $100.43 58 292.2 6 DEMONDRILLE 15.6 70.9 93.5 32 5 9.4 kg $105.24 60 269.0 7 NERSTANE 17.7 64.1 94.5 32 3 12.4 kg $94.38 58 247.9 8 MAISTER’S SWAMP 17.1 66.2 79 32 2.5 8.5 kg $75.58 56 186.2 9  CLASS 401: Ram, 6 tooth and over STUD MIC FLC YLD % LWT EM FD FLC WT VALUE SUB SCORE TOTAL PLACE MERRYVILLE 18.1 75.2 113.5 42 4.5 12.4 kg $116.66 60 409.0 1 DEMONDRILLE 19.8 82.5 108.5 38 6 11.5 kg $112.12 70 391.2 2 NERSTANE 18.2 66.3 114.0 35 3 13.7 kg $106.68 64 352.9 3 DEMONDRILLE 18.8 83.4 96.0 32 4 11.4 kg $115.16 63 350.4 4  CLASS 402: Ewe, not more than 4 and not less than 2 tth STUD MIC FLC YLD % LWT EM FD FLC WT VALUE SUB SCORE TOTAL PLACE ONE OAK 17.1 82.4 77.0 30 5 10.0 kg $107.11 70 369.0 1 ONE OAK 17.6 78.4 71.5 30 6 10.6 kg $102.42 62 344.2 2 ALFOXTON 16.5 78.2 81.0 44 6 8.0 kg $87.15 70 343.7 3 NERSTANE 18.0 75.8 64.5 31 3 10.3 kg $95.52 52 317.4 4  CLASS 403: Ewe, 6 tooth and over STUD MIC FLC YLD % LWT EM FD FLC WT VALUE SUB SCORE TOTAL PLACE GREENLAND 17.3 78.0 87.5 35 7 7.7 kg $78.88 69 390.2 1 NERSTANE 17.1 72.7 76.5 31 5 9.2 kg $86.10 70 383.0 2 NERSTANE 17.4 70.2 89.0 31 4 8.2 kg $71.87 67 375.9 3 GREENLAND 18.5 79.8 75.0 27 4 7.7 kg $70.97 64 328.9 4 MAISTER’S SWAMP 17.9 72.1 60.0 27 3 8.2 kg $71.85 54 295.9 5 Greenland Merino Stud

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45 SW Slopes still growing SWS Field Day pen of three Merino hogget rams, was won by The Merino was again king for a day at the annual South Brundanella Merinos, Grenfell. Pictured are Michael Elmes, Smartstock, West Slopes Merino Field Day staged in the picturesque Narrandera, Brundanella principal, Ian Griffiths, and Grant Elwin, Grenfell setting of Iandra Castle, Greenethorpe, last September. Photos courtesy The Land Close to 1000 people were in attendance to view the The SWS Merino pen of three Merino hogget rams was leading Merino genetics and coming sale offerings from won by Ian Griffiths, Brundanella Merino stud, Grenfell. 33 Merino studs from a wide area of the State; from Warren to the north, from Hay and Jerilderie in the State’s There were 20 entrants in the Maiden Ewe Competition, south and throughout the South West Slopes and Central each exhibiting 10 maiden ewes (Merinos and Dohnes), West. with each ewe measured objectively and subjectively. Judged by Ben Lane, Uardry, Hay and Drew Chapman, The long-wool section was won by James and Leo Hinesville and West Plains studs, Delegate, the major Wilder, “Hillview”, Grenfell for their ewes of Rockdale award of the day, the South West Slopes Merino Ram of and Egelabra blood. Runner-up was the entry of Beau the Year title, was carried off by Tara Park stud, Boorowa. Stewart, “Eulo”, Harden, ahead of Jill Baldwin, “Geralda”, Stockinbingal. Ben Lane said you would go a long way to find a richer wool on a ram that carried it all over. In the short-wool section, the honours went to Graham Wallace, “Melrose”, Cowra, for his Pastora-blood ewes “He had an exceptional skin and tremendous muzzle, with runner-up, Matthew Hunter, “Westwood”, Bribbaree. which flows through to his great skin type,” he said. Steve and Lydia Jarvis, “Heathfield”, Boorowa, also on In a big day for Guy Evans, Tara Park also took out the Pastora blood, took out the coveted eye muscle to body Commonwealth Bank NSW All Purpose Ram Lamb weight ratio title. award. Judge Drew Chapman said the 121kg ram was New location for SWS in 2013 outstanding. “Bone and structure were the key After three years at the iconic Iandra Castle, and with the components of this ram, with a long staple length, great event continuing to grow, the SWS Slopes Field Day will wool and good balance the winning edge,” he said. move this year to St Clements Retreat and Conference The Champion All Purpose Hogget ram title went to Centre, Kalangan Road, Galong. The gates will open at Matthew Coddington, Roseville Park, Dubbo, for his 11.00 a.m. on Thursday, September 5. 18.1-micron ram, weighing in at 122kg. The ram had St Clements offers a combination of excellent facilities and 2.4-micron standard deviation, 13.8 per cent coefficient local history. A working farm located east of Young it has of variation and 43 millimetre eye muscle depth and 85 a rich history dating back to the settlement of the district in square millimetre eye muscle area. 1825. Overnight accommodation is offered at the retreat which also houses a museum and guided tours will be available. Integral parts of the field day are again scheduled along with the popular fashion parade. There will be four competitions for stud rams with two of these, the NSW All Purpose Ram Lamb and the All Purpose Open Hogget Ram of the Year, open to all exhibitors. SWS president, John Roxburgh, said “Attractive cash prizes are offered for the ram competitions, plus significant prizes for the ewe competition which all add to the incentive for stud and commercial breeders to participate.” Studs with clients who wish to enter a team of ewes in the Commercial Maiden Ewe Competition should encourage them to contact organisers as soon as possible. While entries close on August 23, the number of teams will be limited. The field days will again enjoy the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Bank, Riverina Wool Testers, The Land, Southern Weekly and Prime TV Wagga Wagga. Judge Ben Lane, Uardry, Hay, major sponsor Paul Cocking, Riverina Further information: SWS secretary, Philip Brown, ph (02) Wool Testers, Wagga Wagga, and judge Drew Chapman, Hinesville and West Plains studs, Delegate, present the SWS Merino Ram of the Year 6382 6250 or 0418 214 897; president, John Roxburgh, sash to Guy Evans, Tara Park, Boorowa, at the 2012 SWS Field Day. ph 0448 731 759, or visit www.swsmerinofielddays.com

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First-time entrants who took out the Ted Little Memorial Merino Ewe Competition in Trundle went on to also win the 13th annual Central Western Association of Agricultural Shows Maiden Merino Ewe Competition. Dedicated Merino breeders, sponsors and judges visited flocks that placed first and second in the maiden ewe competitions held during the previous fortnight in the Condobolin, Trundle and Parkes districts; the winning flocks from 34 entries over the three competitions. Georgie and Cranley Gowing, “Lowan”, Trundle, with their winning entry After close to twelve hours and 525km travel by coach in the 2013 Central Western Association of Agricultural Shows Maiden through the centre of NSW in early March, the region’s Merino Ewe Competition. winners were decided. The main award went to Gowing Partners, “Lowan”, Overseeing the competition were judges Ray Cannon, Trundle, winners at their first attempt in their local Westray, Peak Hill, whose knowledge of the Central West competition. Their Darriwell-blood flock, classed by environment gave down to earth, practical breeding Russell Jones, was also a popular selection in the advice and John Roberts, Dunbogan, Elong Elong, who spectator competition. brought sound knowledge of wool structure, particularly nourishment and lock structure. This created interest The Gowings presented 300 July-shorn, 2011-drop ewes among visitors on how to further avoid dust penetration with a lambing percentage of 93 per cent. Their weaner in trying conditions such as those experienced in the past shearing program has been changed to three shearings year. in the first two years to increase fertility. The competition has two tiers with each town’s winning The competition ewes, with 7½ months wool, cut 5.75kg flock competing for the main award and the second of 20-micron wool with a 67pc yield, 1.0pc VM, staple placed flocks competing in their own competition. This length of 73mm and strength of 54 Newtons a kilotex. concept has proven to provide good discussion points In accepting the Harold and Tony Watson Classer’s when comparing the results of the previous individual Trophy, Russell Jones paid tribute to the Gowing family for competitions. presenting such a productive line of ewes considering the tough spring and summer conditions. Runner-up in the main competition was the entry of Geoff and Phillip Cole, “Pindari”, Parkes, for their Langdene/ Nerstane blood, self-classed entry. The July-shorn, September 2011-drop ewes were the youngest in both competitions and the Pindari flock averages 19-micron wool and 7kg wool cut with a 90pc lambing percentage. On winning the Parkes competition the previous week, the Pindari flock had given Langdene Merino stud, Dunedoo, their third ewe competition success in as many weeks with clients also winning the Crookwell and Tablelands (Mudgee) competitions. Second-placed in the Parkes competition and winners of this year’s competition for runners-up was the entry of Craig and Liz Tanswell, “Milpose”, Goonumbla. The Egelabra-blood flock is classed by Andy McLeod, Dubbo. Mr Tanswell credited the improvement in his flock to purchasing better quality rams with the desired traits for which he was looking. The good crowd of spectators thoroughly enjoyed their day travelling through many different areas, enquiring of At “Milpose” inspecting the winning entry of Craig and Liz Tanswell in the each district’s land values and stocking rates and gaining competition for runners-up are judge, John Roberts, Dunbogan, Elong first hand sheep breeding knowledge from experienced Elong, owner, Craig Tanswell and judge, Ray Cannon, Westray, Peak Hill. judges.

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GD0573 artificially inseminated by laparoscopy has been shown to be similar to that achieved with fresh semen, there are reports of higher variability and sometimes reduced NSW SMBA fertility of frozen semen, especially when it is used to AI superovulated ewes Trust for multiple ovulation embryo transfer Since establishment of The NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ (MOET). Association Limited Trust (SMBA Trust) in 1987, several Problems with the projects have been completed for an investment fertility of frozen approaching $400,000. Funding is provided from a semen are even more portion of the interest earned on the invested SMBA Trust pronounced when non- Simon de Graaf funds. surgical approaches Current SMBA Trust funded projects are: such as cervical (sometimes called “over the rail”) or vaginal (colloquially known as “shot-in-the-dark”) AI are • Wool Handler Training, conducted by the Western performed, with fertility often well below 20 per cent for Institute of TAFE. Funding for this project is now in its frozen sperm. fourth round with an allocation of another 20 places for the 2012-2013 year. These striking differences in fertility clearly show that the freezing process changes ram sperm in some way. • The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW Foundation: Decreases in motility and viability of frozen sperm do not Claudia Raleigh, from Cootamundra, is the recipient of fully account for these differences in fertility as modern the second SMBA Trust RASF Scholarship, to undergo freezing techniques result in high quality semen samples studies in Agricultural Science with a focus on sheep which show good longevity. production at Charles Sturt University. As such, we believe that there are other changes which • Sydney University Honours Student Scholarship: The are occurring to ram sperm during the freezing process. SMBA Trust is now sponsoring an Honours student in Changes which affect the ability of sperm to interact with the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the university who the ewe’s genital tract and impede their ability to traverse is undertaking research in relation to Merino sheep. Six the cervix, uterus and oviducts and ultimately get to the applicants were received and the scholarship was made egg and fertilise it. available to Emma O’Flaherty, a Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience. An outline of her project is Evidence from other species and our own observations included on these pages. in sheep suggest that these changes could be related to proteins that are altered, lost or gained during the freezing • Improving fertility of frozen ram semen for AI: The process. We also have evidence that supplementation Trust is also providing part-funding over five years to a of frozen sperm with seminal plasma (the non-cellular major research project being undertaken by Dr Simon component of semen) can restore their fertility, but these de Graaf, Sydney University, on achieving low cost, results are highly variable and poorly understood. accessible artificial insemination of frozen semen for the sheep industry. With these thoughts in mind the current research project was designed with the aim to use a proteomic approach Improving the fertility of frozen ram to improve the function and fertility of frozen ram sperm semen for AI used for AI. Achieving this goal would give producers more reliable or higher fertility than they currently achieve By Dr Simon de Graaf in their laparoscopic AI programmes and potentially Frozen ram semen has been available for use in the provide the option of using a non-surgical (cervical) AI sheep industry since laparoscopic AI was introduced alternative to laparoscopy for insemination of frozen in the early 1980s. While the fertility of frozen semen semen. A rising star in theMerino industry

51 The ability to use cervical AI with frozen semen would eliminate the requirement of veterinary administered AI (i.e. surgical laparoscopy and some of its associated costs) and perhaps make AI with frozen semen and its genetic benefits more accessible to the wider sheep At the University industry. of Sydney Student Prize Ceremony Towards this overarching goal of improving the function in early May, of frozen sperm, the research project aims to take a Emma O’Flaherty step-by-step approach to understand what makes frozen is presented with a certificate sperm different to fresh sperm and what it is about acknowledging seminal plasma that can alter or restore their function. her NSW SMBA We will use a variety of techniques to explore these Trust Honour’s Scholarship by Ed questions over the five years of this project, many of which Dugan, executive have never been applied to sheep reproduction before. director of the On the proteomics side we will use a process known as SMBA. tandem mass spectrometry to identify the proteins present in ram sperm and seminal plasma for the first time. Quantitative proteomic techniques such as isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) will allow us proteomic differences between sperm types (fresh and to study subtle proteomic changes between fresh and frozen) and differences in seminal plasma from rams with frozen sperm. high or low abilities to survive freezing. Coupled with proteomic analyses we will study sperm Initial functional studies will focus on identifying rams with function in the laboratory using the latest computer high or low preservation abilities (to utilise their seminal assisted sperm assessment and flow cytometric plasma for proteomic analysis) and investigation of how techniques as well as their interaction with cervical cells in seminal plasma modifies interaction of epididymal sperm vitro. with the female. Sperm function will also be studied within the ewe by a These studies will inform the approach to be used to revolutionary device (known as fibred confocal microscopy investigate the effect of sperm freezing and the role of – Cellvizio™) that allows us to observe sperm swimming seminal plasma proteins in restoring function. inside of the uterus and oviducts following AI. Field fertility Research will be conducted at the University of Sydney trials will also be used to test the true function of sperm by a team led by Dr Simon de Graaf and in collaboration within the ewe. with Dr Xavier Druart, a world expert in sperm proteomics, Broadly speaking, these procedures will be used to of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique achieve the following aims over the course of the five-year (INRA), France. Research funding is provided through research programme: the generous support of the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ 1. Identify what makes fresh sperm different to frozen Association. sperm at the protein level Further information: To aid in this project, Dr de Graaf 2. Characterise the protein composition of ram seminal is also available to visit the properties of NSW SMBA plasma members when undertaking AI of their sheep. Contact 3. Understand the proteomic and functional interactions Simon de Graaf, ph (02) 9351 3363 or email simon. between seminal plasma and sperm [email protected] 4. Explore how proteomic differences in seminal plasma affect freezability of ram sperm Evaluating effects of replacing grain 5. Identify proteins which can be used to improve freezing Emma O’Flaherty, who holds a Bachelor of Animal and success Veterinary Bioscience degree, is the inaugural recipient 6. Understand how proteomic differences affect passage of the NSW SMBA Trust Honours Scholarship, made of sperm through the female reproductive tract available to a Sydney University Honours student. Her 7. Identify protein markers of fertility in ram semen project will evaluate the effects of replacing grain in Merino 8. Identify and use proteins to promote fertility of ram sheep rations with crude glycerin. sperm Under the selection criteria for the scholarship, the The first step in this long term research project is to successful applicant should propose Honours level tailor the proteomic techniques of mass spectrometry research that is clearly linked to the Merino wool and/or to analysis of sperm and seminal plasma and generate wool textile industry, be aimed at greater wool production a picture of the protein composition of these highly and at preparing the applicant for participation in the specialised cells and the substance that supports their Merino wool industry. The proposed studies should also function. enable the scholarship recipient to interact directly with one or more Merino wool industry sectors. Once this has been conducted we will know the identity of the proteins within the ram sperm membrane and The following information is an extract from Emma’s the seminal plasma. We can then start investigating research proposal.

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52 The production of ethanol from cereal grains requires The objectives of this study are to assess effects of the fermentation of starch, producing glycerin. As such, glycerol inclusion in the diet on Merino lamb performance the effects on wool growth characteristics by replacing and wool yield. dietary fibre sources in Merino diets with glycerin will be A growth performance experiment with 45 lambs will be examined. conducted at “Mayfarm”, University of Sydney, Camden. Additionally, this research will examine the effects of There will be 3 treatments with 15 animals per treatment. glycerin on the rumen microbial population and it is suggested that by reducing methane production, animal The 3 treatments will consist of balanced diets containing: performance is likely to improve as a result of improved 1. Diet 1: 0% Glycerol energy efficiency. This increase in energy supply should 2. Diet 2: 6% Glycerol translate into greater wool production. 3. Diet 3: 12% Glycerol The outcomes of this research have the potential to provide the primary sector with new information A week before the trial starts, mid-side patches will be regarding the potentially sustainable use of glycerin shorn, centred 30cm from the vertebral column down from biodiesel production and the resulting impact of the last rib. A 10cm square patch will be delineated with feeding by-products on ruminal ecology and fermentation a marker pen and stencil on the right hand side of the characteristics. animals. “Thus, the proposed research would enable me to interact A week before the end of the trial, mid-side patches directly with both the energy and agricultural sectors will be shorn with small animal clippers and the patch as the potential outcomes are beneficial to both,” said clippings stored in a seed envelope ready for washing. Emma. Samples will be analysed at the International Association of Wool Textile Laboratories, Wagga Wagga, NSW. Emma said she has always wanted to work with livestock and production in NSW and has found a passion within Data on feed intake, feed conversion (FC), and growth her field in nutrition. “I would love to continue this line of performance (ADG) will be analysed. Initial and final live work once I have completed my studies in 2013,” she weight, liver and rumen weights, fatty acid composition, said. wool yield and quality and rumen characteristics data will be analysed using a model similar to that described A brief abstract of the proposed research project follows. above, but excluding week as a repeated measure. Although crude glycerin composition varies among In a further spin-off to Emma’s research, she said “the biodiesel plants, its major component (80 to 99 per cent), proposed research will help me develop my skills in glycerol, has important potential to be used in livestock professional writing for the scientific community and diets. Glycerol can be readily absorbed through the rumen increase my knowledge of the wool industry. wall and converted to glucose in the liver or, in a major proportion, fermented to propionate, increasing blood “I will continue to learn about research on animals and the glucose levels in cattle and sheep. ethics behind it instead of several in vitro experiments.”

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54 Cootamundra’s Claudia

An aspiring agricultural science teacher from Cootamundra is the recipient of the NSW Stud Merino Breeders Association Trust (SMBA Trust) - RAS Claudia Raleigh (second left) meets with executive of the NSW SMBA at Foundation (RASF) Rural Scholarship for 2013. this year’s Sydney Royal, outgoing president, Lou Armstrong, executive assistant, Mae Edenborough, and executive director, Edward Dugan. Having completed her schooling last year at Cootamundra diploma of education and become a high school teacher High School where she was school captain, 17-year- or if not that, something in the wool industry - I love wool. old Claudia Raleigh is now studying for her Bachelor of Agricultural Science at Charles Sturt University, Wagga “Whatever I do I want to be teaching other people about Wagga, NSW. the importance of agriculture in Australia,” she said. Executive director of the NSW SMBA Edward Dugan Claudia said the scholarship will help support her while said that with its longer term commitment to youth she lives away from home for the first time as well as development programs such as the RASF, the association assist with fees and purchase of texts so she will not have can continue to raise awareness of the sheep and wool to rely as heavily on her family. industry. An RASF Rural Scholarship assists NSW tertiary students “The NSW SMBA has members across the State and who demonstrate a passion for rural issues, community understands the financial demands that are placed involvement and have the determination to make a on rural students (and parents) who are prepared to difference. The scholarships support a diverse range of undertake tertiary education in both major and regional education and training pursuits and are designed to ease cities,” Mr Dugan said. the financial burden of higher education and encourage students who want to make a contribution to rural NSW. “The NSW SMBA has been and continues to be a keen supporter of the ongoing development of the industry and RASF executive officer, Jocellin Jansson said that more believes that investment in youth is important to continue than 1,000 applications were received for the current to attract innovation to the sheep and wool industry.” funding round and a record 46 rural scholarships have been awarded for 2013. Growing up on the family farm at Cootamundra, Claudia has always had a hands-on role; helping with the sheep, “The RAS Foundation, our scholarship donors and working for lamb marking contractors and in the shearing sponsors are extremely proud to be able to assist such shed and also attending local sheep sales and wool store a large number of worthy and deserving students from – and no doubt paying close attention to the advice of her across NSW. The financial support we provide offers a wool classing instructor mother. helping hand that allows them to fulfil their ambitions, complete their university, TAFE or apprenticeship studies Claudia said she is passionate about rural and remote and contribute to building vibrant rural communities,” Ms communities and would like to teach agriculture and Jansson said. science in a small remote school. She said the rural issues of development and adoption of new technologies “There are some truly remarkable stories amongst to increase productivity to feed, fuel and clothe a growing this group of scholars – they come from a variety of world population starts with educating young people “to backgrounds and range from 17 to 52 years of age. It see agriculture as important enough to take up these just goes to show that it is never too late to set a goal or challenges”. realise a dream.” It has long been Claudia’s ambition to contribute to Further information on the RAS Foundation: farming education. “After my degree I would like to do a www.rasf.org.au

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55 2012 Rabobank National - Dubbo The Armstrong family’s Pemcaw Poll Merino stud, Dunedoo, topped Merino studs from the NSW Central West featured the 2012 Rabobank Dubbo National Merino ram sale at $44,000 with strongly in the 2012 Rabobank National Merino Sheep its grand champion Poll Merino ram, sold to Merryville and Rock- Show and Ram Sale with Peak Hill’s Towalba stud Bank studs. Pictured are Henry Armstrong; Wal Merriman, Merryville, securing the nation’s highest Merino accolade, the Boorowa; Lou Armstrong; and John Crawford, Rock-Bank, Victoria Rabobank Australian Supreme Merino Ram title, and Valley, Vic. Dunedoo’s Pemcaw stud, topping the sale. The ram was grand champion Poll Merino ram of the Pemcaw’s $44,000 grand champion previous day’s Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show and earlier in the year was supreme exhibit at the At the Rabobank National Merino Ram Sale on the final Queensland State Sheep Show and grand champion Poll day of the three-day fixture, a Poll Merino ram from Lou ram at the Australian Sheep Show in Bendigo. and Henry Armstrong’s Pemcaw stud at Dunedoo topped the offering. The 18.7-micron ram sold for $44,000 to a It cut 13.7 kilograms of wool when shorn the following syndicate of well-known Australian Merino studs, Wal and day by Mr Merriman. “I’ve been watching this ram since George Merriman’s Merryville stud, Boorowa, and John Sydney Royal, watching him grow on – and he has,” Mr Crawford’s Rock-Bank stud, Victoria Valley, Victoria. Merriman said.

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56 Mr Crawford said the Pemcaw ram was the best Poll he has seen in 10 years. “He has a beautifully formed yoke in the wool, is structurally very sound and the perfect sheep to set up a Poll Merino stud,” Mr Crawford said. Interstate buyers were out in force with 11 of the first 18 lots going to various buyers from Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Colleen, Gordon and Garry Cox, Langdene, Dunedoo, recorded the sale’s second-top price of $25,000 in the sale of an 18.6-micron, 153kg ram to Paul Weeding, Okehampton stud, Triabunna, Tasmania. Mr Weeding said he could find no fault with the ram. “He is pure muscle and has everything going for him in respect of structure and good, free growing wool. “I see this ram as an outcross; he’ll go with the best ewes in the stud,” he said. Langdene sold a further two rams at the sale’s third-top price of $12,000. Both 18.7-micron rams, one was sold to W J and E Z Diss & Sons, “Bellpark”, Prairie, Victoria, and the other to Stonehouse Grazing, Lemont, Tasmania. Langdene’s overall sale average was $12,000 for the sale of five rams, all of which have found interstate homes. Garry Kopp, Towalba, Peak Hill, holds the stud’s 2012 Rabobank Stonehouse Grazing also picked up the sale’s fourth-top Australian Supreme Merino Ram with judges, Robert Lindsay, Cora Lynn, Peak Hill; Bob Walters, Middle View, Dalgety; Danny Picker, Hillcreston priced lot at $11,000, this time a 19.0-micron ram from Park, Bigga; Tim Dalla, Collinsville, Booborowie, SA; and Ian Michael, Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park stud, Nyowee, Balaklava, SA. Dubbo. With three sales at $10,000, Roseville Park sold 9 rams to Towalba ram’s brilliant show career $11,000 for an average of $7167. Rams went throughout NSW and to Western Australia as well as Tasmania. In a brief but brilliant career of just over one week in the Show ring, Towalba Calendar was never beaten. Grand The McLaren family, Nerstane, Woolbrook, also sold a champion ram at last year’s Peak Hill Show and supreme ram at $10,000 to Denholm Green stud, Hexham, Vic. exhibit at Condobolin Show three days later, he was then Overall the sale of 46 rams grossed $271,000 for an sashed Rabobank Supreme Australian Merino Ram in average of $5891. Dubbo after another four days.

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57 The 21.9-micron 4-tooth ram had won through from the The show’s grand champion ewe was the champion champion medium wool sale ram class to be champion superfine wool exhibit of Merryville stud, Boorowa. The 6- sale ram, grand champion ram and then the show’s tooth ewe measured 15.6-micron, and in what is believed supreme exhibit and supreme NSW ram on his way to the to be a “first”, the ewe had been best Merino ewe of the Australian supreme title. Sydney Royal eighteen months earlier. Calendar’s sire, T7.23, was reserve grand champion at In 2011 however, she measured 17.6-micron. Stud co- the Dubbo fixture in 2009. principal, Wal Merriman said the ewe, from the Brilliant Super family was a great example of Merryville’s breeding Spokesman for the judging panel, Robert Lindsay, philosophies – with her wool growing finer as she grew Cora Lynn, Peak Hill, said the supreme ram was a older. tremendously long bodied sheep with a big rear end, a magnificent head and a lot of wool; an overall standout The grand champion Poll Merino ewe of the show came type of sheep. “He just looked the part,” he said. from the Darriwell Poll stud, Trundle, of Ray and Russell Jones and the Elders City of Dubbo Group of 5 Merinos Other State finalists vying for the Australian title were was won by Graham and Mary Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie. Warren McRae, Oakbank, Gre Gre North, Victoria; the Bolt family’s Claypans stud, Corrigin, Western Australia; Roseville Park was most successful exhibitor of the the Brumpton family, Mount Ascot, Mitchell, Queensland, two-day show with Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat, most and the Myer family’s Mulloorie stud, Brinkworth, South successful Poll Merino exhibitor. Most successful exhibitor Australia. for combined results in the sheep show and fleece show was Bocoble stud, Mudgee. The Towalba ram was passed-in at auction but later sold for $30,000 to Richard Chalker, “Lachoona”, Darbys Falls The Performance Class was won by a ram from One Oak, near Cowra. Jerilderie, which weighed in at 162kg. The 18.3-micron ram had an SD of 2.3, 12.6CV and 99.9CF. Towalba Calendar’s final challenge on his way to the supreme titles was the grand champion Poll Merino ram Off-shears the ram weighed 148kg and produced a from Lou and Henry Armstrong’s Pemcaw stud, Dunedoo, 14.4kg fleece valued at $112.96. It had a fat depth of 7.6 which later sold for the sale’s top price of $44,000. millimetres and eye muscle depth (EMD) of 45.2mm. The combined fleece and meat score for OO BL10 was 488 Sired by a Moorundie Park ram and from a Pemcaw from a possible 500. maiden poll ewe, the 131kg ram measured 2.9-micron standard deviation (SD), 15.5 per cent coefficient of In second place was a ram from the McLaren family, variation (CV), 99.9pc comfort factor (CF) and 17.4-micron Nerstane, Woolbrook. A full brother to last year’s Supreme spinning fineness (SF). NSW Ram, the 18.9-micron ram’s fleece weighed 15.17kg and was valued at $121.33. It had fat depth of With the Towalba and Pemcaw rams on the mat in final 4.8mm and EMD of 33.5mm. competition, many thoughts turned to the late John Coy who classed both studs; the two grand champions were In the Australian Wool Network fleece show run in from the last joining that he oversaw. conjunction with the sheep show, the Rayner family’s Grathlyn stud, Hargraves, triumphed with a 15.4-micron superfine wool ewe fleece taking out the supreme fleece award. The ewe was by Grathlyn’s 2005 GSSM (Goulburn) grand champion ram and supreme exhibit. The 2013 Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show and Ram Sale, Dubbo, will be held from August 27 to 29. 51st National Ram Sale 2012 Further information: Steve Lindsay, DNRSA secretary, Vendor Summary 0429 340 988. Entry forms and catalogue can also be found on-line on the Shows & Sales page at www.merinonsw.com.au Stud Sold Top ($) Average PEMCAW, Dunedoo 1 44,000 44,000 LANGDENE, Dunedoo 5 25,000 12,000 ROSEVILLE PARK, Dubbo 9 11,000 7167 ONE OAK, Jerilderie 2 6000 5150 NERSTANE, Woolbrook 4 10,000 4875 HADDON RIG, Warren 5 8000 4300 WEEALLA, Balladoran 2 6000 4250 DARRIWELL, Trundle 1 4000 4000 WEST PLAINS, Delegate 1 4000 4000 TOWALBA, Peak Hill 2 5000 3250 GRASSY CREEK, Reids Flat 2 4000 3000 BUNGULLA, Manilla 2 3000 2500 KAROWARA PLAINS, Bedgerebong 1 2500 2500 DUNBOGAN, Elong Elong 2 2000 (2) 2000 ROCKDALE, Canowindra 3 2000 1667 TARA PARK, Boorowa 3 1500 (3) 1500 BILLA BURRA BURRA, Yass 1 1000 1000

OVERALL 79% clearance 46 $44,000 $5891 The reserve grand champion ram of the 2012 Rabobank National E&OE was the grand champion fine/medium ram from Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park, Dubbo. Wayne Jenkins photo

58 Hugh McGrath, Egelabra Stud, Warren, overall winner and first placed in the 20-25 years section of the Merino judging competition at Dubbo. WANT DOLLARS

Egelabra’s Hugh McGrath – Merino IN YOUR judging winner The Merino judging competition winner at the 2012 Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show was Egelabra POCKET? jackaroo, Hugh McGrath, 21. Hailing from Womboin Station, Girilambone, Hugh completed his schooling at St Ignatius College, Riverview, before spending two years as a jackaroo on Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, Queensland. He credits Barcaldine Downs manager, Duncan Ferguson, with firing his enthusiasm and for teaching him so much about judging. During this time he won the Queensland State judging competition final and was also associate judge at the Queensland State Sheep Show in Charleville in 2011. In early 2012, Hugh moved to the Kater family’s Eenaweena property at Warren as jackaroo and stud groom and expressed gratitude to Egelabra manager, USE Cam Munro, for furthering his knowledge and giving him the opportunity to do some judging. THERMOSKIN Hugh’s more recent judging appointments to date have included Baradine and Parkes shows.  Shear Anytime  Save Sheep in Bad Weather  Better Condition, Heavier Sheep

CALL HENRY KING TEL: 02 9534 7422 MOB: 0418 641 645 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.thermoskin.com.au The Land newspaper’s trophy for the winning March-shorn pair of Merinos of the 2012 Rabobank Dubbo National Merino Show and Sale was won by One Oak stud, Jerilderie. Exhibitor, Graham Wells, holds the ram while CONNECT his brother, Ross Wells of Willandra stud, Jerilderie, lends a hand as Mark WITH US: Griggs, central west journalist, The Land, presents the trophy.

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2012 Rabobank Australian Supreme Ram Champion Medium Ewe Australian Wool Network NSW Finalist: Towalba, Peak Hill One Oak, Jerilderie * 2012 NATIONAL FLEECE SHOW Supreme Exhibit & Supreme NSW Ram Champion Strong Ram Supreme Champion Fleece Towalba, Peak Hill Darriwell, Trundle ** Grathlyn, Hargraves Champion Strong Ewe Grand Champion Ram Fleece Most Successful Exhibitor - Overall, Show Oakbank, St Arnaud, Vic Bocoble, Mudgee and Fleece Grand Champion Ewe or Wether Fleece Bocoble, Mudgee MARCH SHORN CHAMPIONS Champion Superfine Ram Grathlyn, Hargraves * Elders City of Dubbo Group Bocoble, Mudgee * Champion Medium Wool Fleece One Oak, Jerilderie Champion Superfine Ewe Merryville, Boorowa Grathlyn, Hargraves Most Successful Exhibitor The Max Smith Champion Pair Paul and Margy Seaman Oakbank, St Arnaud, Vic Champion Fine Ram Grassy Creek, Reids Flat HOUSED SECTIONS Elders Champion Pen of 5 Sale Rams Champion Fine Wool Ewe Superfine Ewe or Wether Fleece Roseville Park, Dubbo ** Grassy Creek, Reids Flat ** Grathlyn, Hargraves * Grand Champion Ram Champion Fine/Medium Ram Superfine Ram Fleece Towalba, Peak Hill One Oak, Jerilderie Bocoble, Mudgee Reserve Grand Champion Ram Champion Fine/Medium Ewe Fine Ewe or Wether Fleece Roseville Park, Dubbo Roseville Park, Dubbo Airlie Poll, Walcha Grand Champion Ewe Champion Medium Ram Fine Ram Fleece Merryville, Boorowa Roseville Park, Dubbo Bocoble, Mudgee Reserve Grand Champion Ewe Champion Medium Ewe Medium Ewe or Wether Fleece One Oak, Jerilderie Roseville Park, Dubbo Airlie Poll, Walcha Champion Aug Shorn Sale Ram Champion Strong Ram Medium Ram Fleece Towalba, Peak Hill Willandra, Jerilderie Merryville, Boorowa Grand Champion Poll Merino Ram Champion Strong Ewe Strong Ewe or Wether Fleece Pemcaw Poll, Dunedoo One Oak, Jerilderie Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, Qld Reserve Grand Champion AUGUST SHORN POLL CHAMPIONS Strong Ram Fleece Mulloorie, Brinkworth, SA Champion Superfine Ewe Wyuna, Armatree Grand Champion Poll Merino Ewe Merryville Poll, Boorowa UNHOUSED SECTIONS Darriwell Poll, Trundle Champion Fine Ram Superfine Ewe or Wether Fleece Reserve Grand Champion Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat * P & M Seaman Merryville Poll, Boorowa Champion Fine Wool Ewe Fine Ewe or Wether Fleece Most Successful Exhibitor - Open Karowara Plains, Bedgerebong P & M Seaman * Roseville Park, Dubbo Champion Fine/Medium Ram Medium Ewe or Wether Fleece Most Successful Poll Exhibitor Pemcaw Poll, Dunedoo * P & M Seaman Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat * Champion Fine/Medium Ewe Strong Ewe or Wether Fleece National March-shorn Ram Roseville Park Poll, Dubbo Towalba, Peak Hill * One Oak, Jerilderie Champion Medium Ram NSW Jnr Champion March-shorn Ram COMMERCIAL UNHOUSED Mulloorie, Brinkworth, SA SECTIONS One Oak, Jerilderie Champion Medium Ewe Fine Ewe or Wether Fleece NSW Jnr Champion March-shorn Ewe Darriwell Poll, Trundle P & M Seaman ** One Oak, Jerilderie ** Champion Strong Ram Medium Ewe or Wether Fleece The Land March Shorn Pair Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, Qld R E Kent, Delungra * One Oak, Jerilderie ** Champion Strong Ewe Strong Ewe or Wether Fleece Performance Class Darriwell Poll, Trundle One Oak, Jerilderie Warrie Grazing, Gulargambone Best Presented Team Sale Rams MARCH SHORN POLL CHAMPIONS RABOBANK AUSTRALIA MERINO Langdene, Dunedoo Champion Superfine Ram Best Static Display Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat SHEEP JUDGING COMPETITION Egelabra, Warren Champion Superfine Ewe Overall Winner Hugh McGrath Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat AUGUST SHORN CHAMPIONS Champion Fine Ram Senior (15 - 25) Champion Superfine Ram Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat * 1 Hugh McGrath, “Eenaweena”, Warren Conrayn, Berridale Champion Fine Wool Ewe 2 Todd Mullen, Uardry, Hay Champion Superfine Ewe Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat ** 3 Caleb Thomson, Uardry, Hay Merryville, Boorowa Champion Fine/Medium Ram Junior Champion Fine Ram Terrick West, Prairie, Vic 1 Josephine Coddington, Weilmoringle Roseville Park, Dubbo Champion Fine/Medium Ewe 2 James McLean Champion Fine Wool Ewe Bundaleer Poll, Walla Walla 3 Sam Barnes Royalla, Wallendbeen Champion Medium Ram Best Handler Hugh McGrath Champion Fine/Medium Ram Terrick West, Prairie, Vic Roseville Park, Dubbo * Champion Medium Ewe * = winner of same award in previous year Champion Fine/Medium Ewe Bundaleer Poll, Walla Walla 2012 Rabobank National Merino Sheep Langdene, Dunedoo ** Champion Strong Ram Show & Sale full results on Champion Medium Ram Winyar Poll, Canowindra www.merinonsw.com.au Oakbank, St Arnaud, Vic

60 Schools Wether Challenge to Dunedoo Central The inaugural Schools Wether Challenge staged at the 2012 Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show was a resounding success, fulfilling the aims of sponsor, the NSW Stud Merino Breeders Association (NSW SMBA). Fifteen pens of three wethers were entered by nine schools. The wethers had been donated to the various schools by Merino breeders from throughout the State and agriculture class students at each school were responsible for feeding and preparation in the months prior to the show. Overall winner was Dunedoo Central School’s pen with an aggregate value of $843. Forbes High School took second position with a value of $740, and third place went to St Paul’s, Walla Walla, with an aggregate of $735. Winners of the inaugural Schools Wether Challenge, the team from Dunedoo Central School, Blake Taufa, teacher Jade Smith, Wethers were first judged on Merino characteristics Lachlan Stuart, Harry Obst, Luke O’Connor, Rhiannon Barnes, Justin and winner of that section was Trundle Central School Robinson. followed by St Paul’s and then Dunedoo Central. President of the NSW SMBA, Lou Armstrong, who The competition for sheep value went to Trundle, then had overseen the development of the challenge said Forbes High and in third place, St Paul’s. it was a major success for Merinos and the State’s The wethers were then shorn and wool values educational system which promoted agricultural assessed. Dunedoo Central’s team came out on top, classes. followed by Yanco Agricultural High School and then “Merino breeders will gain a lot of feedback from Forbes High. this trial, but more importantly, we have involved an The final assessment was on carcase value and enormous number of school students currently studying Dunedoo again claimed that title. In second place was agriculture and encouraged them to look a little more another team from Yanco with a pen from Gulgong closely at the Australian Merino and what its wool and High School coming in at third. meat attributes can offer primary producers,” he said.

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1. Sue McDonald, Royalla, Wallendbeen, sashes the August-shorn 5. Bevan Jolly, Elders Dubbo, presents the sash to Roseville Park, champion superfine ewe from Merryville, Boorowa, held by Wal Dubbo, winners of the Elders pen of three sale rams. Also pictured Merriman, that went on to be grand champion ewe of the 2012 are Matthew Coddington, Grand Judd and Ross Howard. Rabobank National. 6. Oakbank stud of Gre Gre North, near St Arnaud, Victoria, took out 2. David Hart, wool manager, Landmark, Dubbo, sashes the grand the Max Smith Memorial champion Merino pair of the 2012 Rabobank champion Poll Merino ewe of the 2012 Rabobank Dubbo National National. Luke Smith, Rabobank’s Dubbo branch manager, presents Merino Show and Sale, held and exhibited by Ray Jones, Darriwell Poll the ribbon to the exhibitor, Warren McRae, holding the ram and Greg stud, Trundle. The ewe was earlier judged champion August-shorn Poll Simpson, Winjallok, Vic, holding the ewe. Merino ewe. 7. Graham Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie, holds his NSW junior champion 3. One Oak stud, Jerilderie, had a big day in the March shorn showring March-shorn ewe while Peter Lieschke, Bundaleer Poll, Walla Walla, during the first day of the 2012 Rabobank Dubbo National Merino holds his reserve champion. The ewe was also champion March- Show and Sale, exhibiting among other champions, the NSW and shorn Poll Merino ewe. National junior champion March-shorn ram. Pictured is exhibitor, Graham Wells holding the ram being sashed with the Elders NSW 8. Max Rayner, Grathlyn stud, Hargraves with the supreme fleece of the junior broad ribbon by Bevan Jolly, Dubbo, while Pat Byrne, Wagga 2012 Australian Wool Network open fleece show, held in conjunction Wagga, presents the National broad ribbon on behalf of Western with the Rabobank National. Also pictured are Greg Sawyer, AWN, Wool Marketing. livestock officer, Orange; Lee Toohey, Bayer Australia’s Dubbo based representative; and Dubbo National Ram Sale Association secretary, 4. Charlotte Faulks, Novartis Animal Health, Coolah, sashes the medium Steve Lindsay, Cora Lynn stud, Peak Hill. and grand champion sale ram on its way to the supreme title, held by Photos courtesy The Land Garry Kopp while medium wool judge, Rob Lindsay, Cora Lynn stud, Peak Hill, sashes the reserve champion and champion fine/medium sale ram held by Russell Jones and exhibited by the Jones family’s Darriwell stud, Trundle.

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63 With more than 40% of lambs mulesed without pain relief, it’s now time to make a Better Choice.

Currently, a little under half of all Australian sheep are mulesed without any pain relief. In the absence of short term alternatives, some farmers that had abandoned mulesing may have now returned to the procedure. (Sheep farmers Flocking back to Mulesing – The Australian January 21, 2013).

It’s encouraging to see many farmers recognise the benefits of pain relief, but there are still some who don’t. Farmers who don’t use pain relief often indicate cost as a reason, but in fact, pain relief pays for itself. They only need to wean another 1 in every 100 (or 1%) lambs for pain relief to pay for itself.

Number of ewes mated 100

Lambing percentage 80%

Number of lambs (A) 80

Cost of pain relief per lamb (B) 68¢

Total cost to treat lambs (AxB) $54

Estimated value of lamb $80 under 10 months*

* Based on estimated market value of lamb May 2013

With recent studies showing at least 24 hour effective pain relief, it’s best welfare practice to use pain relief when mulesing. Effective pain relief means lambs ‘mother up’ faster, experience less blood loss and shock and enhanced wound healing. Talk to your vet today about pain relief that is effective for at least 24 hours. Better for lambs, better for you, better for industry.

If you are mulesing, it’s now time to use pain relief.

BETTER CHOICES A better life for livestock betterchoices.com.au Latest research in pain management of mulesing in sheep.

In a recent article, Sydney University researchers reported on the beneficial effects of the Bayer pain relief product. In previous trials they had shown the alleviation of pain for 8 hours after mulesing, and this work showed this continued for a much longer period - for at least 24 hours after application. Two separate trials were carried out on 6-8 week old Merino lambs. In the first trial, lambs were mulesed and tail docked at the same time. In the second trial, only mulesing was carried out as tail docking had been carried out previously. In each trial the lambs were divided into 3 groups - (A) Untreated controls, (B) Treated with pain relief following mulesing (and tail docking in Trial 1), and (C) the wounds remained untreated. In the trials, post-operative wound sensitivity was measured using Von-Frey filaments at a series of 9 sites on the wound surface and 5 sites on the surrounding skin. The Von-Frey filaments are thin nylon fibres that apply either light touch (10N) or pain stimulation (75N) to an area. Pain and light touch responses were made prior to treatment, 1 minute following, and then 24 hours after mulesing. Typical light touch and pain induced involuntary reflexes and motor responses were measured using a customized numerical rating scale (NRS). Pain responses over the mulesed area were graded as: (0) No response. (1) Minor involuntary motor response such as local skin twitch. (2) Partial rump withdrawal reflex with multiple sub-cutaneous muscle contractions and/or lifting of the tail. (3) Full rump withdrawal reflex with lifting of the rump off the cradle. Facial responses were also graded and recorded. Pain-related behaviour was assessed at 1h and 24h post-mulesing using a Numerical Rating Scale as follows: (1) Mild abnormalities of posture, gait or behaviour. (2) Moderate abnormalities such as ‘statue standing’ and moderate stiffening. (3) Severe abnormalities of posture, gait or behaviour such as marked agitation with twisting or writhing, distressed vocalization etc.

RESULTS: Pain Relief: The two trials confirmed the rapid relief of pain with the Bayer pain relief product. The trials showed an increasing level of wound sensitivity to pain and light touch over the 24 hour period that was alleviated by applying the Bayer pain relief product. Pain Related Behaviour. Mulesed lambs that were treated with the Bayer pain relief product had lower pain behaviour scores at both the 1 hour and 24 hour assessments than those with untreated wounds, and had pain related behaviour scores similar to the un-mulesed control group.

CONCLUSION: “Significant pain alleviation and improved recovery can be achieved in lambs for at least 24 hours after mulesing through the use of the Bayer pain relief product”.1

Reference: (1). Lomax S, Sheil M and Windsor PA (2013) Duration of action of a topical anaesthetic formulation for pain management of mulesing in sheep. Aust Vet J 91: 160-167. Who’s giving Australian farmers a helping hand ?

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68 www.woolnetwork.com.au Georgia loved breeding the Merino rams at Middle View and would spend countless hours following Bob’s footsteps, while Brody had found a passion of his own in clay target shooting – a past- time that Bob had not participated in for some time. In 2010 however he was convinced to return Vale to the lanes in Cooma, progressing rapidly from C grade to AA grade in large Bob Walters shoots in the Riverina and Monaro and across NSW. “He worked hard to set up the stud and finally got the 1961-2013 property to a standard that would allow him to take time off; mostly to travel with Brody to shoots,” said Mikala. The stud Merino industry lost one of its most passionate “His shooting weekends never lined up with our (Mikala and breeders on February 10 when Bob Walters, Middle View Georgia) horsey weekends. This he liked as it always meant Merino stud, Dalgety, died from a sudden heart attack, there was someone home to feed the rams in the shed.” aged 51. Bob was also an active member of the Monaro Six days later over 800 people from all mainland States community and the NSW Merino fraternity. A councillor of attended the Boloco Anglican Church, Dalgety, to pay their the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association (SMBA) since respects to a great Merino man, friend and colleague. 1997, he was a member of the shearing inspection, Poll Born in Cooma on July 20, 1961, Bob was the second Merino and public relations committees and at the time of oldest of three boys and a girl. his death was the SMBA’s junior vice president. He grew up on the Dalgety farm, helping his father and He was a past president of both the Monaro Merino two brothers run Merino sheep and cattle, with a real Association and the Great Southern Supreme Merino interest in driving the Merino stud with his father, and show and sale committee (2010-2012); a member of the taking on the decision making in the early 1990s. Many Numbla Vale bush fire brigade and the Dalgety P and a day was spent with his father perfecting the art of C. He also served as Dalgety Show president and vice analysing a sheep for its good and bad points, while also president and publicity officer of the Cooma Gun Club. judging the wool. Bob was renowned in the district for his cooking skills The Middle View Merino stud was formed in 1977 by and won at various local shows with his tomato relish and Sid and Judy Walters, growing from a successful ram pickles. Mikala said he loved to cook “and to entertain breeding program as well as an interest in buying rams with fancy dinner parties or a barbecue, sharing a drink for others in the area. The stud grew to a point where, and a yarn with friends”. during the mid 1980s under John Coy’s classing direction, He encouraged his children to do their best, to be happy its inaugural ram sale sold 60 rams in 50 minutes to with the results and to enjoy whatever they are doing. average $640. “His friendly banter, endless jokes and ability to say what In 2003, Craig Wilson, Wagga Wagga, was employed he thought to anyone are strengths we miss. He could to work alongside John Coy and in 2005 the family travel anywhere in Australia and bump into someone he restructured the farming business and Bob and his wife knew. He would remember their names and strike up a Mikala took over the reins. friendly conversation,” said Mikala. Bob drove the Middle View brand of sheep to a new level The number of friends who turned out to farewell Bob from the time he took over the stud, producing big, thick, were evidence of the high esteem in which he was held, productive Merinos, both horned and polled, with a focus with Mikala saying “half the world knew and loved Bob; on putting dollars in his clients’ pockets. He was conscious the other half just had not met him yet. of wool quality, plenty of it and a good framed sheep to go with it. Under his stewardship the Middle View stud “He was my best friend, a wonderful dad and we miss topped many multi-vendor sales, achieved one of the him dearly.” highest averages for an on-property ram sale in NSW and Bob Walters is survived by his wife Mikala, children helped clients to achieve great success in various wether Georgia and Brody, mother Judy, brothers Ross and Neil, trials and ewe competitions across NSW, Victoria and and sister, Maureen. Tasmania. Mikala Waters and Brett Tindal He was known to many as the bloke with the roaring infectious laugh who could keep a crowd entertained for hours with his jokes and stories.

Bob had such a passion for Merinos but claimed his real Middle View Merino stud will continue to be developed under success in life was his children, Georgia, 15, and Brody, the guidance of Craig Wilson, following Bob’s philosophy. We will 14, with whom he had a strong bond. strive to produce big framed, heavy cutting fine wools. Thank you Another would be his marriage to Mikala. They met at to all our clients who have sent messages of support during our Cooma Rodeo in January 1991 and married at a favourite tragic time. We look forward to your continued support and will restaurant in Sydney in October 1993. Of their relationship, do our best to meet your needs within the Merino industry. Mikala said “we supported each other’s dreams; his of Mikala, Georgia and Brody sheep work – mine of teaching”.

69 Vale Ken Evans

A dedicated Merino breeder and stalwart of the Cobar community, particularly of the Cobar P & H (Cobar Show Society), Ken Evans of Tambua Poll Merino stud, “Tambua Station”, Cobar, passed away on November 10, 2012. Since 1953 Mr Evans had been both a very active member of the show society and a keen sheep and wool exhibitor, winning many awards and trophies over the years. Ken had been a wool steward since the first show held after World War II, and at the time of his death still Ken Evans, chief steward Cobar Show’s wool section, is pictured with his held this position along with that of vice president. 2012 grand champion fleece of the show at the 60th Cobar Show at which he had fulfilled this role among others. Photo courtesy The Land During his 59 years on the society, Ken had also served as president and was awarded life membership in 2009 for Members of the SMBA who have exhibited or judged with his hard work and dedication to the Cobar P & H. him over the years have recalled his warm hospitality and The Evans family has four generations of service to the spoken of “a true gentleman who will certainly be greatly society with Ken’s father Tom having been a foundation missed by those who were fortunate enough to know him”. member and Ken’s son Paul currently holding the position Ken Evans is survived by his wife Ann, Paul and Jane and of president with his son, Michael, a sheep steward. their sons, Michael and Scott.

Genomic blood cards, collected prior to the event will be available during inspection. Many important traits such as The ultimate in fleece weight, staple strength and worm resistance are included in the genomic information. Winners of the different classes and the New England New England Ultimate Merino will be announced at a dinner at Uralla, NSW, on Saturday January 11 2014. The biennial New England Merino Field Days (NEMFD) are Further information: NEMFD secretary, Janet Carter, ph back again in January 2014 and with them a new feature (02) 6778 7288 or 0427 677874 or visit competition, the New England Ultimate Merino. www.newenglandmerino.com.au The competition is based on existing “all-purpose” Merino classes and will also include the latest genomics blood testing. The New England Ultimate Merino competition will promote elite yearling Merino sires that may be top sale rams or stud sires and is open to Merino studs participating in the field days. NEMFD president, Joe van Eyk, is excited with this new field days’ feature. “New England is the premier genetic source for fine, superfine and ultrafine Merinos and we export all around Australia and the world,” he said. “This new competition will identify the very best young sires with outstanding wool, carcase and conformation. “We see the Ultimate Merino being an educational experience for breeders, as well as a marketing opportunity for studs.” The Ultimate Merinos will be fleece tested, body weighed and carcase scanned at the Uralla Showgrounds. A wool judge and a meat judge will assess the sheep, including conformation.

70 Passion for the product

By CAROL TRAINOR High fertility, whiteness of wool and excellent frames have repaid an emphasis on quality breeding for three passionate Merino breeding enterprises in southern NSW. With results varying from lambing rates up to 165 per cent, 80pc of wether lambs turned off by 12 months of age and wool that has withstood 1525mm of rain in a year, the three businesses have respectively been repaid in spades for an investment in genetics on their Merino enterprises. Bill and Rhonda Daly, YLAD & Co, “Milgadara”, Young, are regular buyers of the top-priced rams at Grogansworth Merino stud, Bowning. Size, wool whiteness and outstanding fertility and growth Pictured at the stud’s 2012 on-property sale are Grogansworth co- rates are common characteristics in the story of the three principal, George Henderson; Daly’s sheep classer, Michael Elmes, Smart Stock, Narrandera; buyer Bill Daly; Grogansworth classer, Ian producers. Marwedel, Dubbo; and Grogansworth principal, Kim Henderson, with the Bill and Rhonda Daly of YLAD & Co, “Milgadara”, Young, stud’s $4200 top-priced ram. Photo courtesy The Land marked 165pc of lambs from their 2- and 3- year-old ewes last spring after a September lambing, with the Ahead of lambing last year the Dalys had two major fox entire flock averaging 130pc. baiting programs. On their first run they put out 150 baits The Dalys don’t scan but emphasise animal health, and all were taken, indicating the scale of the fox problem. particularly ewe nutrition, in helping maintain a solid 105- They then put out another 150. “We heavily baited twice 106pc lambing average for several years. “A good quality and we really saw as we drove around during lambing sheep is very important. If the whole package is good you that all the lambs were surviving. We weren’t losing the then get very good results in every area, including fertility,” twins.” Bill Daly said. High fertility and excellent growth are also characteristics The Dalys join 3000 ewes a year on their mixed farming enjoyed by the Grogansworth-blood flock of Jugiong’s operation and Mr Daly said they were looking for fine- Keatinge family. The Keatinges have increased medium wool sheep, “something that can really stand up their emphasis on breeding Merinos by taking on to the conditions in our area”. Grogansworth rams in the past three years and last year their Merinos outperformed their crossbred ewes in “We buy at the top end of the Grogansworth rams. Even lambing performance. though we’ve bought the top priced rams a few times we have usually only been about $200 above the average; It’s a result that was replicated slightly north at the Old but when you pay that bit extra the quality is about 40 per Bundemar-owned “Fairview”, managed by Nick Hewlett. cent above the average. Both operations have had lambing and growth success. “It probably has a lot to do with our selection of rams. We With Nick and Sally Keatinge and their son Andrew’s are getting good bodied rams so their progeny are open property “Stonehenge”, between Jugiong and Adjungbilly, and good, fertile ewes.” varying from “undulating to steep” and with wethers run on the hillier, less forgiving country, wool quality is also The Dalys join at 1.5pc and, although they have scanned paramount. in the past, no longer do so. “If the ewes are in good condition and they are in a rising plane of nutrition you The Keatinge’s ewes achieved 125pc lambs at marking won’t have many ewes not in lamb,” Mr Daly said. “(And) and 123pc at weaning. The ewes were joined at 1.5pc you have to have the nutrition in front of them.” for six weeks and the Keatinges did scan, allowing ewe nutrition management. The crossbreds, meanwhile, The Daly’s YLAD Living Soils fertiliser program is a key marked about 98pc at weaning. to the outcomes of their mixed farming operation, with that emphasis apparent in their own soil management. Andrew Keatinge said the result reflected the quality of the “We focus very heavily on soil testing and balancing the Merinos’ breeding. “They were fantastic lambs,” he said. minerals in our soil. It’s subtle but it really does show “We have been focusing on our Merino breeding for about benefits in stock health,” Mr Daly said. three years and we are seeing the results.” The pasture mixes vary, including a mix of cocksfoot The Keatinges started breeding their own Merinos about clover with a lucerne base with others - chicory, lucerne three years ago, aiming to avoid the pitfalls of buying in and clover for fattening. stock, and now buy in only about 500 ewes a year

71 compared with 1200 three years ago. They now join 1150 lambing, after lambing was moved back from August 1 Merinos a year, a move which means they have greater for better management efficiency. control over animal quality and health and are reducing The family has pregnancy scanned the ewes for the past the average age of the flock. “It is always an unknown three years, weeding out any dries and targeting nutrition when you are buying sheep in,” Mr Keatinge said. “which has been really good for our production”. The topography of their property means they also have They have increased their focus on fertility management, 3500 acres of country they feel is most suited to Merino both in ewes and rams, including targeting ram selection wethers, with the oldest wethers about 3.5 years old. and body type and shearing rams twice a year. “We have had two drops of lambs from the Grogansworth “I am very excited to see the 2012 drops coming through rams and are seeing some great results. The 1.5yo the system,” Mr Keatinge said. “And with the 2013 drops wethers cut 5.8kg wool average and the 2.5yos cut 7.9kg. I think we will see even more of the things we have really “We are looking for a medium to large frame Merino ewe been focusing on – the fertility, size and wool whiteness”. with a good body and the Grogansworth rams have really “The Grogansworth rams are really putting the brightness helped that. Their sheep really suit our climate. They’ve into the wool. We are getting a good wool cut and a good got the frame and everything we need as well as adding sized lamb. real whiteness of wool,” he said. “We are really trying to weed out the sheep that aren’t “Our main operation is a Merino over a Dorset or Suffolk doing what we want. We have been building up numbers which is about 85pc of our program.” and now we are going to work on that quality and bring The ewes are joined in mid-January for a July/August that in.”

“At the moment (for example) I have my ewe weaners on a triticale crop that might otherwise have crossbreds Fairview’s focus or Angus but without them it means the (paddock) resources go to growing more ewe weaners. “My aim is to put as much nutrition into those lambs as on Merino possible. A half-grown ewe lamb is no good to me or the company. We are putting a lot of work into reaching those targets. I work on getting those ewes to 50 plus management kilograms by joining,” he said. “Last year as the season turned pear-shaped over At “Fairview”, Binalong, manager Nick Hewlett said a summer those ewes held on and they joined terrifically focus on Merino management was helping them sell well. 80pc of their wether lambs at 12 months old, every “This year we had 40 dry out of 600 maiden ewes, year. which we were very pleased with. We scanned Mr Hewlett operates “Fairview”, one of two properties because of the different feed requirements and the in the district run by Old Bundemar Pty Ltd under tighter year, but we only scan when we see the need. general manager, Geoff Henderson. “The ewes are a pretty fertile article. The year before “Last year 80 pc of the lambs were sold at $125/head last we weaned 104pc, last year 105pc weaned of total (at 12 months of age). This year already, 20pc of ewes joined without scanning and we are getting to the the lambs have been sold at 10 months for $93 and stage where we are budgeting for 100pc in the Merino we will have 80pc cleared by 12 months again,” Mr ewes.” Hewlett said. Mr Hewlett joins the ewes on February 21 and lambs He said moving sheep off the country quickly was on July 21, when ewes are about 20 months old. “We key to the remaining flock’s results. “I’ve got to get join as early as we can and still have the ewes in peak the wether lambs off as soon as possible to allow the fertility, given the season.” country time to rest,” he said. The property is stocked at about 7.5 DSE and since The 775 hectare “Fairview” is in 600-635mm rainfall Mr Hewlett started managing the property about three undulating, fairly sandy granite based soil with about years ago the company has changed the mix from a 220ha of native pasture. From 50-70ha is cropped crossbred and Merino production regime to a purely each year for rejuvenating poor pastures with a goal of Merino enterprise, this year joining just under 2300 creating a mix of productive grass based pastures. ewes. Paddocks are in the process of being identified and “The Grogansworth rams have certainly built on developed for more productive lucerne pastures. “We our fertility and they’ve maintained the size. We are are trying to produce a pasture that will give good selecting rams for their growth, looking to impart the quality pasture in five to 10 years,” Mr Hewlett said. genetics onto the future lambs. “Fairview” runs Merinos and some Angus cattle, “We have now got large-framed, very fertile ewes that supplying Old Bundemar’s “Glenroy” property with are really resilient. I have been amazed at how they pick around 500 maiden ewes a year for the first-cross up in body condition after having their lambs,” he said. enterprise. “This year the ewes are coming off a dry summer “As a specialist Merino breeding enterprise, I don’t without a great deal of feed and we have scanned 47pc have to sacrifice my growth targets for my ewe of twins in the adult sheep. We are really happy with the weaners,” Mr Hewlett said. direction Grogansworth is taking us.”

72 2014 SALE CALENDAR AND STUD CONTACTS

NEW ENGLAND MERINO FIELD DAYS: WEEKEND OF 11 JANUARY 2014

AIRLIE KURRAJONG PARK SHALIMAR PARK On Property: Friday 17 January 2014 On Property: Friday 17 January 2014 On Property: Wednesday 29 January 2014 Murray & Michelle Power (02) 6777 3936 Rodney Kent (02) 6729 1340 Maurice & Alison van Eyk (02) 6778 7339 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Joe van Eyk (02) 6778 7460 Email: [email protected] ALFOXTON LORELMO On Property: Monday 10 February 2014 On Property: Monday 20 January 2014 STANLEY VALE Chris & Cindy Clonan (02) 6775 3245 John & Jules Cordingley (02) 6769 2235 On Property: Friday 7 February 2014 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tim Bower (02) 6778 4598 Email: [email protected] BELLAINE MAISTERS SWAMP On Property: Tuesday 28 January 2014 On Property: Thursday 13 February 2014 WAVERLEY DOWNS Cameron Peardon & Deb Maxwell David & Tina Watson (02) 6778 7244 On Property: Saturday 15 February 2014 (02) 6779 4262 E: [email protected] Sean & Judith Ballinger (02) 6724 8386 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MERRYSHEILS BLAXLAND Armidale Unhoused Sale: 3 February 2014 WESTVALE On Property: Thursday 23 January 2014 Lee & Ruth Fletcher (02) 67778148 On Property: Wednesday 12 February 2014 Mark Blaxland (02) 6760 4208 Email: [email protected] Leo & Judy Blanch (02) 6778 7321 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MIRAMOONA CRESSBROOK Armidale Unhoused Sale: 3 February 2014 WHYWORRY PARK On Property: Friday 14 February 2014 Kim & Rhonda Barnet (02) 6777 2885 Private Sale Lachlan Fulloon (02) 6775 1217 Email: [email protected] Darryl Carter (02) 6778 4147 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MIRANI DEEARGEE Armidale Unhoused Sale: 3 February 2014 YALGOO Armidale Unhoused Sale: 3 February 2014 Hugh & Felicity Nivison (02) 6777 1360 On Property: Saturday 1 February 2014 Hugh Sutherland (02) 6778 4659 Email: [email protected] Grant & Jo Nivison (02) 6777 2525 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] NERSTANE ESSEX HILL On Property: Friday 31 January 2014 YOOROOGA On Property: Thursday 30 January 2014 Hamish McLaren (02) 6777 7404 Private Sale: from December 2013 Bob & Gloria Ward (02) 6778 7276 Jock McLaren (02) 6777 5891 John & Lois Holley (02) 6736 1323 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] KARORI PETALI On Property: Saturday 1 February 2014 On Property: Thursday 6 February 2014 ARMIDALE UNHOUSED Rob & Katrina Blomfield, Mob: 0467 779 189 Martin & Cheryl Oppenheimer (02) 6777 2124 RAM SHOW Email: [email protected] Web: www.petali.com.au Monday 3 February 2014

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73 Vale Kevin (‘Dusty’) Coves 1933-2012

Stud stock shows and sales in southern NSW – especially those involving Merino sheep – will in future be Raised on a family farm at Ungarie, Kevin entered conspicuous by the absence of an unassuming man long the wool industry at the age of 16, working as a wool taken for granted. They will no longer be graced by the sorter at a Goulburn bulk-classing store. After gaining presence of Kevin “Dusty” Coves, Landmark’s veteran his woolclassing qualifications at Goulburn Technical Goulburn-based stud stock specialist, who died on College, he joined the local office of former woolbroking October 15 at the age of 79. firm, Farmers and Graziers, where he worked in the wool Diagnosed some months earlier with cancer, he was department under the legendary Cliff Friend. told he could expect to live for a few more years, but the It was with Friend that Coves had his introduction to disease spread and his final decline was relatively rapid. the stud sheep scene, accompanying him on ram- His passing brings to an end a remarkable career buying visits to studs and often staying overnight, where spanning some 60 years of service to the industry and opportunities arose to pick the brains of such industry to one company (albeit through several corporate name giants as Sir Walter Merriman, and Tom Culley of Wonga. changes). As the series of woolbroker takeovers saw Farmers and Stud stock breeders across southern NSW are still Graziers in due course absorbed by Dalgetys, and later coming to terms with the sudden loss of a man who, for Wesfarmers (now Landmark), Coves went with the flow, almost as long as they can remember, has been a part of becoming the company’s Goulburn-based stud stock the industry landscape. For generations of clients, fellow specialist. agents, new-chum reporters and others, Kevin Coves has In that capacity, he broadened his role to that of an all- been a trusted source of advice, a fount of wisdom born round stud sheep and cattle advisor, though primarily of experience and a good friend. focusing on the Merino sheep and wool that were his The high regard in which he was held is evident from the lifelong passion. “minute’s silence” observed in his honour at a number As well as helping organise on-property and multi-vendor of ram sales across southern NSW in the week after his sales around the region, he selected rams and bulls for death, further observed at the Great Southern Supreme clients, classed commercial flocks and took bids at the Merinos show and sale in Canberra in January this year weekly Goulburn sales. At weekends he was likely to and at Sydney Sheep Show at the “Royal” in March. bob up at shows and other livestock events around the Tributes to Kevin Coves have come from across the region that might offer opportunities for conversation and industry, common themes being his passion for sheep fellowship with kindred spirits. and wool, his unstinting work ethic, his approachability Kevin told The Land in a 2006 interview (‘Why they and his caring nature. In an industry sector that has its send for Dusty’) that while modern methods of livestock share of knockabout types and self-promoters, he came selection had advanced the industry, “eye-balling” and across as a gentleman – well groomed, well mannered competitive showing would always have a place. and at all times professional. Kevin Coves commanded a respect in the stud Merino Wally Merriman, co-principal of Merryville stud at Boorowa industry second to none. It was a respect built on his and chairman of Australian Wool Innovation, described widely accepted ability as a keen judge of sheep and Kevin as “one of the last true stock men” with a natural wool, his overall industry knowledge and his reputation for gift for quickly assessing sheep or cattle. He said it was a honesty and integrity. mark of the high esteem in which Kevin was held that in 1998 he was voted to be Sydney Sheep Show referee by Kevin Coves is survived by two daughters, Sharon the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association. (Grocott) and Toby (Palmer) and three grand-children. His wife, Jann, predeceased him. “Nobody dissented, as they all knew they would get an honest and impartial assessment from Kevin Coves.” Peter Austin His colleague Stuart Hodgson, Landmark’s Junee-based sheep classer, regarded Kevin as “a great judge of sheep” and – during his own early career - a valuable mentor.

74 Great Southern thrives

Any visitor to the 2013 Great Southern Supreme Merinos (GSSM) Show and Sale in Canberra this year will tell you that the Merino industry in NSW is thriving with a bright future. They would quite rightly be speaking of the quality From the buying syndicate for Merryville’s top-priced ram at this year’s of the 300 sheep on display from 47 studs. GSSM sale are Bob and Brody Walters, Middle View, Dalgety, along with Equally however they would be referring to the dozens of Peter, Jayne, Jamie and Cade Lette, Conrayn, Berridale. They are joined school-age children and young adults who bolstered the by Rabobank Goulburn branch manager, Richard Knight and George Merriman who holds the $11,500 ram. Photo courtesy The Land ranks over the three days from January 19 to 21. Every one of them displayed keen interest and considerable Judges were as lavish in their praise as those who judged ability whether it was feeding, preparing, leading or the ram when it won the supreme exhibit award in Sydney holding sheep, participating in the junior judging, or even ten weeks later. on the end of a broom. The March-shorn, fine wool, four-tooth sire was judged Grand Monarch 44th, the ram from Wal and George by John Barty, Beverley stud, Redesdale, Victoria; Gary Merriman’s Merryville stud, Boorowa, who has already Seaman, Lochness stud, Crookwell; and Russell Jones, featured in our cover story and report on this year’s Darriwell stud, Trundle. Sydney Sheep Show, carried the day at the GSSM winning grand champion Merino ram and supreme exhibit “The sheer outlook and scale of this ram and his wool titles. carrying ability made him extremely hard to go past,” Mr Seaman said. YARRAWONGA MERINO & POLL MERINO

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75 “He’s a future sire of the industry. We’re backing him to come up with some top Merino sheep in a few years.” In Grand Monarch 44th’s final challenge on the mat, he came up against the grand champion Poll ewe from Michael and Jane Corkhill’s Grassy Creek Poll stud, Reids Flat, and the supreme Poll exhibit, the superfine wool ram from the Walton family’s Wurrook stud, Rokewood, Vic. The Grassy Creek March-shorn superfine Poll ewe had won the Tom Culley Award for supreme junior exhibit at Sydney last year and in Canberra narrowly missed the supreme Poll award behind Wurrook’s grand champion Poll ram. Reserve to both the grand champion ram and ewe were exhibits from Graham and Mary Well’s One Oak stud, Jerilderie. One of the most favoured awards of the show was theirs however when One Oak won the Roger Birtles March-shorn group of five ahead of Grassy Creek and Tara Park. Michael Corkhill, Grassy Creek Poll stud, Reids Flat, with his grand champion ewe of the show. Photo courtesy The Land The Cox family of Langdene, Dunedoo, showed the August-shorn group of five with One Oak the runner-up. Kopp in second place, followed by Lily Clonan, Alfoxton, Armidale. For the second consecutive year, the junior champion exhibit title went to the Evans family, Tara Park, Boorowa, The competition also resulted in not just capably handled for their March-shorn, fine wool ram. exhibits but also very well swept mats throughout the show. Tara Park also won the Sid Walters Memorial award for champion sale ram with a fine wool exhibit. Reserve went Wal and George Merriman topped this year’s GSSM sale to Merryville’s fine wool ram which went on to top the final with their reserve champion sale ram selling for $11,500 day’s sale at $11,500. to a syndicate of Monaro buyers, Peter and Jayne Lette, Conrayn, Berridale; Bob and Mikala Waters, Middle View, In the Merino Judging Competition, top honours went to Dalgety; and Michael Green, Boudjah, Cooma. Georgia Walters, 16, Middle View stud, Dalgety. Runner- up in his first experience at judging competitions was Peter Lette said he couldn’t go past the scale and wool Jason Hoadley, 19, “New Plains”, Blayney, and Sean of the 18.7-micron ram, coupled with a great muzzle and Kopp, Towalba stud, Peak Hill was third. head. There was strong competition also in a new award for handlers, sponsored by Greg Boutcher, which was won by Great Southern Supreme Merinos 2013 Sophie Watson, Maister’s Swamp, Kentucky, with Sean Canberra Supreme Exhibit Merryville, Boorowa Great Southern Supreme Merinos Supreme Poll Exhibit Wurrook, Rokewood, Vic Grand Champion Ram Merryville, Boorowa ANNUAL MERINO RAM SALE - 2013 Reserve Grand Champion One Oak, Jerilderie * Grand Champion Ewe Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat Vendor Summary Reserve Grand Champion One Oak, Jerilderie Junior Champion Exhibit Tara Park, Boorowa * Stud Sold Top ($) Average Champion Sale Ram Tara Park, Boorowa Tara Park, Boorowa 1 6500 6500 Reserve Merryville, Boorowa One Oak, Jerilderie 2 7000 5500 Grand Champion Poll Ram Wurrook, Rokewood, Vic Alfoxton, Armidale 2 4750 4625 Grand Champion Poll Ewe Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat * Merryville, Boorowa 10 11,500 3750 Champion Superfine Sale Ram Conrayn, Berridale * Champion Fine Wool Sale Ram Tara Park, Boorowa Wurrook, Rokewood, Vic 3 4000 3417 Champion Med/Strong Sale Ram One Oak, Jerilderie * Merrignee, Boorowa 4 3250 2813 Champion Poll Sale Ram Alfoxton Poll, Armidale Grassy Creek, Reids Flat 2 3000 2500 Most Successful Open Exhibitor Merryville, Boorowa Terrick West, Prairie, Vic 1 2500 2500 Conrayn, Berridale 2 4000 2400 Roger Birtles March Shorn Group One Oak, Jerilderie August Shorn Group Langdene, Dunedoo ** Middle View, Dalgety 4 2500 (2) 2375 March Shorn Pair One Oak, Jerilderie Grathlyn, Hargraves 4 4000 2325 Champion March Shorn Ram Merryville, Boorowa Rogara Poll, Goulburn 1 2000 2000 Reserve One Oak, Jerilderie * Billa Burra Burra, Yass 2 2500 2000 Champion March Shorn Ewe One Oak, Jerilderie Reserve Roseville Park, Dubbo Greenland, Bungarby 3 2000 1750 Champion August Shorn Ram Langdene, Dunedoo Walwa, Gunning 4 2400 1600 Reserve One Oak, Jerilderie Winrock, Gunning 3 2000 1333 Champion August Shorn Ewe Roseville Park, Dubbo Winyar, Canowindra 1 1200 1200 Reserve Towalba, Peak Hill Demondrille, Harden 3 1300 1100 Champion March Shorn Poll Ram Wurrook, Rokewood, Vic Reserve Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat Kamarooka Park, Champion March Shorn Poll Ewe Grassy Creek Poll, Reids Flat * Kamarooka, Vic 1 1000 1000 Reserve Merryville Poll, Boorowa Blyth, Adelong 4 1000 (3) 950 Champion August Shorn Poll Ram Adina Poll, Cooma Royalla, Wallendbeen 2 800 (2) 800 Reserve Karowara Plains, Bedgerabong Champion August Shorn Poll Ewe Merryville Poll, Boorowa Clearance 68% 59 $11,500 $2532 Reserve Towalba Poll, Peak Hill E&OE * = winner of same award in previous year

76 Ron Blyth, Blyth Merinos, Adelong, was not only a first-time sale vendor but also was attending his first sheep show. He and his wife Cheryl, sold four March-shorn, September 2011- drop rams to Winner of the Roger Birtles March-shorn group of three rams and two ewes was One $1000. Oak Jerilderie. Landmark Boorowa branch manager, Rick Power, holds the trophy, pictured with Mary and Graham Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie; Michael Green, Boudjah, Cooma; John Bensley, Stillbrook, Crookwell; and One Oak classer Ian Marwedel, Dubbo. Photo courtesy The Land

Sophie Watson, Maister’s Swamp, Kentucky, winner of the inaugural handler’s award.

Brody and Georgia Walters, Middle View stud, Dalgety, present the Sid Walters Garry Cox, Langdene, Dunedoo, had the champion Memorial Award for champion sale ram August-shorn ram with his two-tooth champion to Guy Evans, Tara Park, Boorowa, for his medium wool. Photo courtesy The Land fine wool exhibit. Photo courtesy The Land

Ken and Kim Noakes and Samantha, 3, from Karowara Plains, Bedgerabong, with Wal Merriman, Merryville, Boorowa, holds their champion August-shorn fine wool Poll the stud’s supreme exhibit. ram and reserve champion August-shorn Georgia Walters, Middle View, Dalgety, winner Photo courtesy The Land Poll ram. of the Merino judging competition with proud parents, Bob and Mikala. “We have had great success on Merryville genetics and with the One Oak ram displaying overall balance and we were looking for a good ram to continue this,” he said. ability to cut wool, while the Tara Park ram carried a The 119 kilogram fine wool ram had further genuine heavy cutting wool. measurements of 2.9-micron standard deviation and 15.5 Overall, 59 rams sold from the 87 on offer and the sale per cent coefficient of variation. grossed $149,400 giving a $2532 average. Mr Green also paid the next two top prices of the day, GSSM’s 2014 Field Day will be held on Friday 17 securing the champion strong wool sale ram for $7000 January with the 67th Annual Merino Show on Saturday from Graham and Mary Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie 18 and Sunday 19 and the Annual Ram Sale on and the reserve champion from Guy Evans, Tara Park, Monday 20 January. Boorowa, for $6500. Further information: GSSM secretary, Tamara Stadtmiller, Mr Green said these two rams were similar in genetics ph (02) 6227 4553 a.h.

77 Visiting Sydney Showground late in 1979, Doug ran into an old friend, John Robertson, financial controller of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS). Mr Robertson suggested that Doug come to work for the RAS and in January 1980, Doug found Vale himself with a new job and a very short retirement. Initially assistant secretary, Douglass breed societies, he succeeded Ralph Storey as registrar of the RAS Sheep and Wool department, Ingham handling secretarial work for agricultural societies and breed societies which included the NSW SMBA and the AASMB. Aspinall AO Doug remained with the RAS until 1989 when, by 1926 – 2012 amicable agreement, the Australian Merino Centre was established to look after the three associations, the AASMB, the NSW SMBA and the WFMB. Doug Douglass (Doug) Ingham Aspinall AO, RFD, ED, former was appointed the inaugural executive director and executive director of the Australian Merino Centre, passed was obviously critical to the smooth transfer to the new away suddenly on August 1, 2012. premises tucked under the Bill O’Reilly Stand at Sydney Showground. A kind and gentle man, he was popular and well-known to stud Merino breeders throughout Australia and further For his service to agriculture, the community and defence, afield in the 17 years from 1980 to 1997 that he served as Douglass was awarded the Order of Australia Medal secretary to the NSW Stud Merino Breeders’ Association (OAM) on Australia Day 1988 and was made an Officer of (NSW SMBA) and the Australian Association of Stud the Order of Australia (AO) on Australia Day 1998. Merino Breeders (AASMB). In 1986 he also became Mary was diagnosed with dementia towards the end of inaugural secretary of the newly formed World Federation 1996 and Doug elected to retire in early 1997. He involved of Merino Breeders (WFMB). himself actively in Alzheimer’s Australia raising awareness Doug joined the 2nd AIF in May 1945 and trained in Cowra, and encouraging support. NSW, and Seymour, Victoria. The War was over by the In their retirement, in May 1997, Doug and Mary moved time he completed his training so Doug volunteered to into an independent living unit at the Linton RSL Veterans’ go to Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Retirement Village in Yass. They were both very involved in Force, a posting that ran from February 1946 until the social life at Linton and in Yass generally. Doug made November 1947. his mark quietly at Linton, having a flag pole installed at In 1949 Doug commenced Medicine at Sydney University, his back door, arranging a covered sitting area at the rear leaving after three years due, in his own words to “lack of of their unit, and installing the first rain water tank in the application.” His attraction to the services however did not village. suffer the same fate and while at university he enlisted in His spirit of the volunteer never waned with many the CMF in the Sydney University Regiment (SUR) and on organisations benefiting from his support including his December 8, 1950, was one of the first three SUR soldiers local RSL sub-branch where he was honorary secretary, to be commissioned after World War II. the Probus club and Yass/Boorowa Legacy. At one stage In 1952 Doug transferred to 17/18 Infantry Battalion (the he also had a part-time job as registrar of the Galloway North Shore Regiment) while working in his civil capacity Beef Marketing Association. for Denyer Brothers in Sydney until 1956. At the end of On Doug’s retirement from the Australian Merino Centre in that year he was selected to become an Australian Military late March 1997, former president of the NSW SBMA and Observer with the United Nations Military Observer Group AASMB and, at that time president of the WFMB, Stuart in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). In Doug’s words again Beveridge said that Doug had been instrumental in many “on the strength of the appointment, I married Mary positive moves and achievements of the associations and Morgan”. very forceful on a number of issues, particularly that of After his return from Kashmir in November 1960, Doug brucellosis. worked for Australian Paper Manufacturers until he took He said they had been happy years for the associations early retirement in 1979. with Doug there; he had a great ability to get people Meanwhile he also continued his service in the Army together. Reserve visiting South Vietnam in 1968 where he was Doug is survived by his son Archie and family. He was th attached to 1 RAR. He commanded 17 Battalion Royal predeceased by Mary who died in late 2003 and a New South Wales Regiment (RNSWR) from 1968 to 1971, daughter, Lucy (Martel). retiring as Lieutenant Colonel in 1976. Doug also busied himself with other voluntary activities including acting as Regimental Secretary of the RNSWR from 1968 to 1996, and trustee and secretary of the RNSWR Trust until 2007.

78 About a decade ago, Graham began looking for bloodlines to give him “big, bold, crimping wool’’ in his ewe flock. He invested in the first Trial feedback horned, grade rams from Glen and Margot Rubie, Lachlan Merinos, lifts productivity Forbes. Graham likes the By KIM WOODS bloodline’s plainer body type, dual purpose Benchmarked wether trial data is helping NSW traits, well nourished woolgrower, Graham Mulligan, fine tune wool and carcase wool and moderate traits in his Merino enterprise. framed, efficient ewe. Mr Mulligan, of Alectown, in the NSW Central West, has Ewe numbers have begun micron and fleece testing his hogget ewes after Glen Rubie, Lachlan Merinos, Forbes, been rebuilt post- receiving feedback in two major wether trials. and Graham Mulligan, Alectown, drought to the point inspect Graham’s maiden ewes. Graham and his wife Liz took out the 2012 Parkes Show where classer Ian Photo courtesy The Land Society Merino wether comparison with their Lachlan- Lovell, of Parkes, was blood team. able to class out 30pc of maiden ewes last year. The Mulligan team’s 2010 average fleece value of $52.90 Graham prefers to pre-class the ewes visually on was added to the 2011 value of $59.18, $86.77 in 2012 conformation and wool before Ian arrives. and the 2011 carcase value of $74.84, to give a total “Last year I sold surplus Merino ewes for the first time three-year production value of $273.69. – 100 14-month-olds sold to a local restocker for $132.’’ The team had the highest fleece value and took out the Ewes are joined in October for a March-April lambing – fleece-carcase combination class. changed from a winter/spring lambing after the wet years The win had backed up a strong sixth placing from 50 of 2010-2011. teams in the Craig Wilson Livestock Merino wether trial “I was generally surprised at how well the adult ewes held at Alectown in 2007-2009. stood up to flystrike and fleece rot during those wet years The couple dovetails a 1200 ewe flock with a cropping – the wool has a lot more nourishment now and keeps the enterprise across three holdings totalling 1100ha. Set in moisture out,’’ Graham said. a 525mm rainfall zone, the country ranges from sandy to The sheep are used to clean up cereal stubbles or are heavy red loam with some areas of gravel. grazed on either lucerne/clover or lucerne and Premier Their Lachlan-blood ewes average 20-micron and cut digit grass pastures. Ewes and lambs also have access to average fleece weights of 7.5kg. 81ha of oats for autumn-winter feed. Graham is pursuing sustainable production within his The last consignment of wethers was October-shorn and own environment by maintaining micron yet lifting fleece sold in March at 12 months of age to average $61 and weights by an extra 1kg. To that end, he has started top at $71. micron testing before shearing and fleece weighing on the A team of their siblings has been entered in the Australian board to identify the most productive hogget ewes. National Field Days/Schute Bell wether trial. “Surprisingly I found the finest sheep was 13-micron and Graham aims to concentrate on lifting conception and there were ewes averaging 16-17-micron and cutting lamb survival rates. 7kg. All the ewes have been ear tagged so we can work on the better performing lines,’’ Graham said. “Sheep have generally kept things ticking over in this region – if it wasn’t for Merino sheep, I don’t think we Last November, four main lines of adult and hogget ewes’ would still be here,’’ he said. wool tested at 18-18.4-micron, with yields of 73-75 per cent, staple strength of 28-48 Newtons/kilotex and 0.9-1.2 “We used to run 2500 sheep and hopefully we can get pc vegetable matter. back to that.’’

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79 80 Bloodline change behind Condo victory

When a Don Brown Memorial Merino Ewe Competition judge recommended Ian and Jane Menzies’ shearers wear sunglasses if their sheep got any whiter, the Menzies knew their breeding was working. Ian and Jane Menzies, “Moonbah”, Condobolin, with their winning flock in the 2013 Don Brown Memorial Merino Ewe Competition. The comment was testament to the success the Menzies Photo courtesy The Land family, “Moonbah”, Condobolin, has had in managing the red-dust penetration, one of the challenges of running a Michael Elmes has been classing the family’s flock since mixed farming operation north of Condobolin. taking over from the late Ian Munro who had classed the flock from 1994 until his untimely death in 2001, and Mr According to Ian Menzies, this problem was partly behind Menzies paid tribute to both classers for their parts in the the bloodline switch to Woodpark in 2009; seeking greater flock’s success. wool nourishment and less dust penetration. Their classer, Michael Elmes, Narrandera, said the Menzies’ location Mr Elmes said the Menzies focus was about getting the and their mixed enterprise nature made quality wool part process right – making sure breeding and management of the equation for breeding success. were spot on and everything else would follow. He also warned that as breeders improved management they The Menzies eye for detail and management meant the would find it harder to stay at the front of the crowd. “Moonbah” sheep were already well-regarded but they had potential to improve so Mr Menzies said, “we sought The “Moonbah” ewes’ win turned the results around on that and we achieved it”. last year’s winners, longstanding Woodpark clients, the McDonald family’s “North Condobolin” flock, classed by The drop which this year won the Don Brown competition Stuart Hodgson, with that respected flock placed third this was the first full drop of Woodpark-blood ewes. year. The 10 random ewes weighed for the competition The sheep program includes seven to eight month averaged 82.2 kilograms bodyweight and a 3.5 condition shearing intervals and emphasising improved lambing score. percentages. The ewes have been wet and dried for The Menzies’ flock has been a frequent entrant in the several years, with the “dries” treated as wethers and competition for two decades and gained the ultimate prize given another chance to join the following year. this year after building toward it with the achievement This year’s flock had about 75 “dries” out of 990 and award in 2011 and third place last year. about 360 twinners from joining to lamb marking. Rams Mr Elmes and the Menzies classed the sheep in August are put in on February 5 for six weeks. last year, classing out 22 per cent of the drop. Adopting a spring lambing not only makes the most of the The Menzies in the past have joined about 900 ewes sheep’s natural cycles but also fits better with the Menzies on about 700-800 hectares of land at “Moonbah”, but a mixed farming management program. recent acreage increase will see further cropping and an “We are not only fitting in with other operations but also extra run of bought-in ewes joined this year. getting that March joining productivity with the decrease in Mr Menzies said the cropping regime includes two to daylight hours.” Mr Menzies said. three years of crops with the final year a lucerne stage Mr Menzies put it best when he told The Land newspaper and occasionally oats for a year or two. he needed to improve the wool tip. “The evenness of “There is nothing that will fatten anything better than crimp (is) making our fleeces like peas in a pod,” he said. lucerne,” he said. “They’ve got high protein and give (the “The new blood has helped to really seal the dust off. This ewes) a wonderful buckle”. region is known for dust so it was important to get the He said the winning 387 maiden ewes had a dream nourished tip.” run with great seasonal conditions and excellent feed meaning they were never checked. “Their size was right and we were lucky with those ewes. They went on oats to get the size right as weaners and went through two wet summers and had lucerne in front of them the whole way. “I’m using the lucerne because they need more nourishment in the bottom half.”

81 The pink woollen dress

In 1828 William Pitt Faithfull took up land on the Goulburn Plains of New South Wales, where in 1838 he established the Springfield Merino stud with ten rams selected from the Camden flock, then owned by Sir William Macarthur. Descendants of William Pitt owned most of the original Springfield land and continued to breed fine wool Merinos until the property was sold in 2007. In the early 1950s, William Pitt’s granddaughter Florence, better known as “Bobbie”, and her husband Irwin Maple- Brown, undertook major renovations of the original Springfield homestead. During this time, Bobbie carefully sorted through the considerable contents of the nine- bedroom homestead and made the decision to set aside rooms for the Faithfull Museum; a vast collection of family memorabilia, clothing, furniture and early documents Lilian Faithfull’s 1885 woollen dress from over 100 years of Faithfull family ownership of the property. and lace frills. The fine Merino wool evenly absorbed the dye and brought a close fit to the bodice and fine drape to With the collection being larger than could be housed in the skirt. The bodice features tight pleats and a high collar, the allocated rooms, books and documents were donated characteristic of the period. to the National Library in Canberra, preserved as the ‘Faithfull Papers’. What remained at Springfield filled the While the Faithfull girls, Lilian and her sisters, Florence and two-room Faithfull Museum. Constance, may have lived on a property that was a two- hour carriage ride from the closest town and a lengthy In 2004, with the impending sale of a portion of the train journey from Sydney, they were active members of Springfield property, including the main homestead, the the Goulburn and Sydney society. Stepping out in her pink great-grandchildren of William Pitt, Jim Maple-Brown woollen dress, Miss Faithfull could have been attending and his sister, Diana (Boyd), along with Jim’s wife, Pam, an afternoon tea, calling on a friend, or perhaps shopping offered the museum contents to the National Museum of in Sydney. She would have accessorised appropriately Australia (NMA). with pointed walking shoes or boots and a pair of short kid About 1500 objects, now known as the Springfield leather gloves. A straw hat and perhaps a parasol would Collection, were subsequently donated to the NMA as have shaded her. part of the Cultural Gifts Program. One of the largest Miss Faithfull’s dress was manufactured from wool single collections given to the NMA, it not only reflects the characteristic of the fine Australian Merino wool that, by development of Australia’s wool growing industry but also the 1870s, had become the country’s most important illuminates daily life during the early settlement of rural product and export. By the 1880s, when the dress was Australia. made, most of Australia’s finest wool was shipped to The collection includes about 500 colonial era costumes London and sold to manufacturers throughout Britain and and accessories complemented by photographs. One of Europe. the many highlights is a 19th century costume; the pink In England’s county of Yorkshire, mills were thriving, woollen dress dating from around 1885. It is believed that producing great quantities of fine woollen textile. In this dress belonged to Lilian (1859-1947), the youngest of Bradford, Leeds and Halifax, bales of Australian Merino nine children (and one of three daughters) of William Pitt wool were scoured, carded and combed, spun and dyed, and Mary Faithfull (nee Deane). woven into cloth and, as in the case of this pink woollen Known to have been purchased from David Jones, as the dress, sold back to an Australian market in want of fine company’s label is attached to the inside of the bodice, textiles and clothing. after almost 130 years the dress shows no sign of wear- Further information on the National Museum of Australia and-tear; in spite of generations of Faithfull descendants - www.nma.gov.au having had great “dress-up” fun with this gown and others from the collection. Acknowledgements: The rich rose pink dress has a beautifully tailored bodice Pip Merriman; National Museum of Australia (NMA); Carol Cooper (NMA senior of petite proportions and a voluminous bustled skirt that curator); Cheryl Crilly (NMA curator); Diana Boyd; Jim and Pamela Maple-Brown would have emphasised Miss Faithfull’s narrow waist as Peter Taylor, Springfield: The story of a sheep station, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty well as supporting and displaying the layers of fine fabric Ltd, Sydney 1987

82 Love affair with wool

When graphic designer Karina Merriman married Matt Westhoff in March this year, she was determined that her passion for wool would be a focal point. Karina, the daughter of Charlie and Pip Merriman, Merrignee Merino stud, Boorowa, who shares the appreciation of wool of her forebears, including Lilian Faithfull, is a sixth generation descendant of William Pitt and Mary Faithfull (see previous page). While Karina had no girlish fascination with weddings as she was growing up, she has always had an inherent love of Merino wool. “Merino wool, our industry and our families and friends who have spent tireless hours growing these marvellous animals that create this incredible fabric fascinate me, and I am extremely proud of my parents and brother and their achievements, dedication and passion, as well as our family history back through the generations and the different studs and stories,” said Karina. For years Karina has talked about wool and its abilities to anyone who would listen. “I am constantly amazed at what designers can create with wool and astonished that so many think it is just for school jumpers. All natural – the bride, Karina Westhoff (Merriman), and her Gary Bigeni/ Woolerina exquisitely draped gown. “When we got engaged, I rang my cousin Catherine Maple-Brown, a designer and wool lover, to talk to her “I was very excited to be able to use fabric from about my idea of having a woollen wedding dress ... and Woolerina; to involve a regional NSW business that is this idea started to become reality,” Karina said. doing wonderful things with wool was such a bonus and Next Catherine introduced Karina to friend and fellow truly felt like the perfect combination for this dress. We all designer, Gary Bigeni, “and the ball started to roll on a pulled off a huge success.” project where we could show the people in our life what The raw material used in the fabric came from the wool was capable of, rather than just talking about it with Boorowa district and was all fleece wool measuring 18.3- them”. micron. The fabric weight was 230 grams per square “What I love about Gary’s design and ideas and talent metre and 158 cm wide and Karina retained the natural with clothing is his ability to drape fabrics. I hadn’t seen colour for her dress. Fully machine washable, it is the anything like it and when Catherine showed me his same fabric used in many of Woolerina’s styles. pieces, it really was an ‘Oh Wow!’ moment.” “The dress was incredible to wear. It fitted like a glove, Gary Bigeni (www.garybigeni.com) has a reputation for was incredibly comfortable, cool during the warmth of the masterful drape and intelligent silhouettes and Karina late afternoon, and warm as the autumn evening set in loved “the elegance of the movement of the material, the and there were some amazing comments,” Karina said. ‘how did he do that’ question that the pieces raise; he is “Even people who have produced Merino sheep and one very talented designer and a true pleasure to work others involved in the industry were rather amazed by the with”. fabric, the design and the combination of the two. I was With the next stage in the creation of the wedding dress one very happy wool wearer.” being the sourcing of fabric, Karina’s mother, Pip, found As a postscript, Pip Merriman has since machine washed the solution during a conversation with Warwick Rolfe of Karina’s wedding dress (on the wool cycle using a wool Woolerina, Forbes (www.woolerina.com.au). Warwick wash from Woolerina) and she says, “It looks great and provided samples and “with his continuing help and ready to wear again”. patience we were able to find an amazing fabric that could handle the incredible width of Gary’s pattern”, said And in keeping with the family tradition, to perhaps last Karina. another 130 years.

83 Robert said because many AMS members wanted to retain their own performance recording systems, a break-away group was formed under the banner, Merinotech, of which Centre Plus was a member. The Centre Centre Plus split from Merinotech in 1993 after there Plus way was a difference in breeding objectives. The former wanted A NSW stud Merino breeding couple has recently won the an all-purpose sheep sheep farmer of the year award in a national competition, while Merinotech had The Weekly Times and Coles 2012 Farmer of the Year an emphasis on lifting awards. wool cut. Robert and Pam Mortimer, and their son Mark run Today, Centre Plus Robert Mortimer inspects a display Centre Plus Poll stud at Tullamore. The following article is flocks continue to reprinted courtesy of The Weekly Times. during a recent flock ewe competition in pursue their original the State’s central west. Merino breeder Robert Mortimer says traditional selection objectives through methods are not always the best, writes Brian Clancy. genetic gain. The nucleus flock at Tullamore comprises 1300 ewes producing 500 rams for its group members, Robert is the powerhouse behind one of Australia’s most with surplus rams sold privately. The stud is also the successful group Merino breeding operations, Centre leading semen supplier in NSW and one of the top two in Plus, at Tullamore. His introduction or conversion to Australia. objective measurements and performance recording began in the mid-1970s. At the time, the Mortimers, who Establishing Centre Plus as one of Australia’s top- were commercial breeders, were seeking a new ram performing studs, with many of its ram trait leaders in source. Sheep Genetics, has been no fluke. Robert and son Mark have been sticklers for measurement and detail. Centre On the advice of departmental sheep officer Frank Plus was one of the first Merino studs to adopt micron Donnelly they opted for a local stud which had a Wonga testing of its ewes. It was also a leader in adopting full breeding base and was using objective measurements. pedigrees where all lambs are matched to their mothers Frank had helped develop two Merino families at the stud to provide records going back four generations. - one selected on performance and the other by traditional selection. The Mortimers have never been shy to adopt the latest technologies. Electronic tagging, scanning for muscle and Robert tried rams from each family, and while the fat, testing for worms and scoring for range of a traits - traditionally selected rams looked magnificent and breech cover, wrinkle and fleece qualities. They were also were like peas in a pod, they were outperformed by among the first to put their hand up for DNA flock testing. those selected on fleece and growth rates. Robert was convinced. To this end, Centre Plus is participating in the Sheep CRC’s latest genomic tests where it will be providing DNA His newfound enthusiasm for performance recording and samples from 200 rams as part of a commercial pilot progeny testing led him to the Australian Merino Society program involving nine Merino and terminal studs and (AMS), a group of West Australian farmers running a 1500 rams. group breeding scheme under the guidance of scientist Dr Jim Shepherd. Members of the AMS were measuring While Robert oversees much of the flock husbandry, their commercial ewes and contributing their top ewes Mark has become a self-taught computer whiz. His to regional ram breeding groups, who in turn contributed achievements include a computer program to sort Centre their top ewes to a nucleus flock from where rams were Plus ewes and rams according to their traits or breeding made available to the member groups. values. He is credited with the initial development of the Sheep CRC’s Pedigree Matchmaker program which helps Robert said because these rams were only available identify lambs and their mothers. to member groups, he along with 14 other breeders, established the Centre Plus group in 1981 to breed an all- With the push for an easy-care all-purpose Merino, Centre purpose Merino. The Centre Plus name was derived from Plus is juggling a range of major traits - wool cut, lamb the group being situated in the ‘centre’ of NSW while the numbers, meat and micron. Although initially Centre Plus ‘plus’ was about producing more lambs and wool. flocks included horned rams, today they are all polled. The ewes are plain without being overly big and around The next year, top ewes from 15 flocks representing 10 the 65kg mark. bloodlines were contributed to the Centre Plus nucleus flock, which in turn were artificially inseminated with AMS At Tullamore in what many southerners would describe as sires. Robert said the members were amazed at the difficult country, Centre Plus sheep run mostly on native progeny. pasture in a 500mm rainfall at stocking rate of 2.5 dry sheep equivalent per hectare. They cut a greasy fleece of Centre Plus stuck with AMS until 1988, when geneticists 7.5kg at 18.5 micron. such as Dr Rob Banks, began promoting the benefits of establishing a genetic databank of progeny Because the Mortimers have put huge pressure on fertility, measurements. These could be used for developing the flock has been averaging a lamb marking rate of estimated breeding values for genetic selection. more than 120 per cent.

84 Modern Merino’s genetic potential for weight gain

By KIM WOODS A selection focus on wool type and muscle has paid off for a western NSW woolgrower with Merino wethers tipping Western NSW graziers Phillip and Di Ridge have selected for the scales at 100kg plus. carcase traits and wool quality in their Mumblebone-blood flock. Photo courtesy Western Herald Bourke station owner, Phillip Ridge, was “astounded’’ by the weights of his Mumblebone-blood four-year-old Phillip Ridge and his wife Di run 11,000 Merino ewes wethers grazed on Darling River flood plain country after across three properties at Bourke and Enngonia, including the autumn floods. Jandra Station, totalling 100,000ha. The family has used Mr Ridge said an explosion in clover after the March Mumblebone genetics for five decades in the 350mm floods last year meant the sheep’s liveweight went rainfall country. “ballistic’’. Jandra Station’s adult ewes average 20.2 micron with The draft of 1205 wethers was shorn at Wapweelah fleece weights of 6.5kg, and for the past five years have Station, Enngonia, in June last year, coming off the averaged a 100pc lamb marking. board in store condition and trucked to the Darling River “Our Darling River floodplain country was totally floodplain at Jandra Station. They were processed three submerged in March and, after another fall of rain, months later at Fletcher International, Dubbo. produced an amazing stand of clover which would fatten Landmark agents Greg Seiler and Angus Laurie, Bourke, an iron post,’’ Mr Ridge said. weighed a sample of 72 head, with liveweights averaging “The wethers had no special preparation but the weight 74.4kg. gain was extra impressive – the truck drivers reckoned Mr Ridge said the heaviest sheep tipped the scales at they should have bought their cattle crates. 105kg – a weight usually reserved for rams. “The year before, our similar sheep weighed a tick under The first consignment of 712 wethers averaged 34.6kg 30kg (carcase weight) but these came back at 34kg plus carcase weight while the balance of 493 averaged and astounded us all.’’ 35.1kg. The entire draft had an average carcase weight Mr Ridge said modern Merinos were now genetically of 34.8kg, with 36 per cent weighing above 36kg. Just 2.9 capable of big weight gains. pc of the sheep were below 28kg carcase weight. Jandra Station classer, Andy McLeod, has focused on Greg Seiler said the mob was the heaviest he had carcase shape and wool quality in the ewes. marketed in the 13 years he had spent at Bourke while fellow agent, Angus Laurie, added the wethers were The sale wethers, with nine months wool, averaged a 20.5 “special’’. micron fleece with a staple length of 78mm and staple strength of 55 Newtons a kilotex. The fleeces weighed an “They were described by everyone who handled them as average of 6kg and returned 745c/kg or $45 a head. huge, incredible, even phenomenal,’’ Mr Laurie said. After deducting shearing costs of $6.50/head the result Principal of Mumblebone stud, Wellington, Chad Taylor, was a nett wool return of $38.50 per sheep. said selection within the stud for skin and wool type, eye muscle depth and positive fat was now paying off for Mr Ridge said it was unfortunate the wethers were clients with high surplus sheep values. Mr Taylor said slaughtered in a depressed mutton market of 220c/kg, an emphasis on using sires with high Australian Sheep resulting in a total return of $116.20. Breeding Values for yearling weight, muscle and fat was “We have recently bought additional country and have resulting in big, efficient wethers. carefully selected restocking ewes of different bloodlines,’’ “What we don’t want is the big thirsty V8 yank tank …. he said. we need an efficient animal that has the energy reserves “They have been joined to Mumblebone rams and we of muscle and fat to draw on when under pressure,’’ he hope to be producing a true-to-type sheep in a couple of said. generations, showing the characteristics we are seeing “These wethers are a great example of the combination of now. skin type and growth – further selection for muscle and fat “We will always be aiming to further improve volumes of will continue to improve these impressive results.’’ wool and meat/muscle.’’

85 150th anniversary Mulwala Merino stud

Among the oldest surviving Merino stud names in Australia are Kilnyana and Mulwala on “Savernake Station”, Savernake, NSW, established in 1863 by Alexander Sloane. On founding the Mulwala Merino stud, Alexander Sloane wrote in his diary of June 5 that year “I went from homestead to back of “Tubbo”, 35 miles, to see sheep. Purchased 1200 ewes in lamb.” Tubbo Station ewes were bred on “Groongal”, Booligal (Learmonth brothers), Tubbo being at Darlington Point. Over the next few weeks, the sheep were walked on the stock route to Savernake Station, where the Mulwala stud continues to this day, still within the ownership of the James Sloane and H. C. Pennefather, at Sydney Ram Sales, Sloane family. 1922. When the original flock finally arrived at Savernake Station The earliest sires were selected from Mudgee and in 1863, the property was an unfenced, unimproved Tasmanian blood drawn principally from Havilah run, staffed by shepherds who guarded the sheep each Ercildoun, Rawdon and Scone studs. evening to protect them from attack by dingoes, or from In 1878, Alexander and his three eldest sons James, being lost in the scrub. Thomas and William, took active management of the stud In 1863 a drought was taking shape, so stock water was and it entered an era of more active improvement. Unlike a serious problem. In May 1864, Alexander had the offer many Riverina studs, the Sloanes did not introduce the of the adjoining Mulwala Station, which included Murray heavy-cutting wrinkled American Vermont fly-prone sheep River frontage. With his wife Annabella, and four young but concentrated on Tasmanian and fine-woolled sheep children, he moved to Mulwala, where his stud took its from core studs in NSW. There were infusions of the name – Mulwala Merino stud. Austin Wanganella bloodlines (Peppin). Mulwala stud soon became one of the top Merino studs in the Riverina, taking out wool prizes at international level, as well as metropolitan and local agricultural shows. Over 1000 rams were sold annually to every State in Australia. In August 1878, James attended the inaugural dinner of the Australian Sheep Breeders Association in Melbourne. After the death of Alexander Sloane in 1907, his five sons each embarked on their own independent properties in 1910. James took the top ewes and rams, and continued with the Mulwala stud, both at Mulwala Station and his newly acquired property “Woodpark”, Jerilderie. “Woodpark” had been owned by H. J. Corbett, founder of the first Corriedale stud. So the Corriedales walked out and the Merinos walked in. This era marked the commencement of the association of W. F. Comans with the stud, which lasted over 60 years. Mr Frank Comans was overseer, then manager, of the Mulwala stud, and in the 1920-30s, the stud reached its peak under his management, selling up to 50 rams at the Melbourne and Sydney ram sales, as well as at Goulburn and Albury. Comans made over 1000 rams available for selection, selling them to Tasmania and all mainland Mulwala Station woolshed shearing team in the States. Good sheep and sound management were his 1890s. aims.

86 Upon his death, his son John continued the stud, with his sons Richard and Bill. When Kilnyana was sold in 2008, the stud returned to Savernake Station, having completed a full circle. Upon the death of Alexander James Sloane, the Mulwala stud and “Woodpark” were sold to the Huggins family who altered the name from Mulwala to Woodpark so that the stud was synonymous with the property name, trading as Woodpark Pastoral Company. The Mulwala stud had been a closed flock for decades, and only one Uardry sire was introduced. The Huggins family included Goolgumbla and Pooginook sires, and kept the stud pure Peppin-blood with great success, becoming one of the Riverina’s most influential medium wool studs. Meanwhile at Savernake Station, William Sloane and his son Ian continued to buy Mulwala rams. In October 1967, Mulwala stud 2-year-old Melbourne Sale rams, 1932. 50 stud ewes and 1 ram were purchased by Ian and his sons Keith and Alexander to form a daughter stud, James Sloane not only proved to be a good sheep Sav-Mul, on Savernake Station. In 1976, the generosity breeder, but was a renowned judge at the local shows of the Huggins family enabled the name “Mulwala” to be and was the first individual judge at both the Sydney and returned to Savernake. So the Savernake and Sav-Mul Melbourne shows. After his death in 1932, his eldest son studs reverted back to the original name, Mulwala. The Alec Sloane inherited the stud, which was soon moved name had thus returned to the site of origin. to “Woodpark” permanently, being managed by Frank Comans Jr. The Mulwala Merino stud is now owned and managed by Helen Huggins, daughter of Ian Sloane, on Savernake In the meantime, James’ brother William had taken Station and the property is now listed by the NSW Savernake Station as his own property in 1910. Another Heritage Council. Helen’s brother, Alexander and Ann brother Hugh G. G. Sloane took “Kilnyana” as his portion, Sloane are also owners and managers of their own this property having been purchased in 1897 by his father enterprise on the property. Alexander. Hugh established a daughter stud, Kilnyana, Flock No 53, which met with considerable success. He An Open Day is being planned for October 2013, to bred rams for use in his large commercial flock and also mark the 150th anniversary of the Mulwala Merino stud, sold rams within the district. He concentrated on fine bulky which will include numerous archival documents and wool and introduced Mulwala rams from time to time, photographs depicting the progress of the stud, from buying at Sydney and Melbourne ram sales. 1863 to the present day.

Wired for wool

Woolgrowers have probably taken them for granted as a basic item in the woolshed, but before the metal wool bale fastener, packs had to be hand-sewn. Maspro Wire Products Pty Ltd has manufactured hundreds of thousands since the first metal fastener some 90 years ago and today the galvanised metal fasteners are used in every woolshed in Australia and New Zealand. Wool bale fasteners like these being held by Maspro Wire Products Marketing manager, Zena Jones said the company, Pty Ltd marketing manager, Zena Jones, at the company’s factory in based at Condobolin for the last 21 years, had become Condobolin, have been manufactured in Australia by the company for a leader in the manufacture of many wire products, some 90 years. specialising in bale fasteners, ring fasteners and plain and barbed staples. “We manufacture these from 3.15 millimetre galvanised wire and supply in quantities from 100 up to plastic “The original company began manufacturing south of containers holding 20 kilograms.” Melbourne and moved to Marrickville in Sydney during the Great Depression,” Mrs Jones said. They are available in either sharp or blunt styles; the sharp fasteners being made for wool bales while the blunt While a wool bale fastener is just a small simple piece of variety are commonly used in the rag trade. metal, its manufacture from quality steel backed up by ongoing research and development plus quality control “When it comes to the wool industry, Maspro bale and testing procedures has enabled Maspro to become fasteners are an icon,” Mrs Jones said. the market leader in wire products. Source: Courtesy The Land newspaper

87 A Ewenique Merino product

At this year’s Sydney Sheep Show at the Royal, the Ewenique site with its beautiful colour range of affordable Ewenique’s Australian Merino wool baby blankets (pictured) and baby woollen baby wear and blankets was a magnet to the wear come in five colour-ways, clockwise from top left, amethyst, earth, mothers and grandmothers in the pavilion. outer space, bubblegum and raspberry sorbet. With all the plays on words within the sheep and wool While the choice of Merino wool for her baby garments industry, it took country-born but city-bred, Monique was the easy decision in setting up Ewenique, Monique’s Harper, to trademark the Ewenique name for her colourful resolve to support local industry and be able to declare range of Merino wool baby wear, established in 2008. her products as 100pc Australian Made proved more of a In a profession she loved, that of a primary/special challenge, right down to finding locally-made zippers and education teacher, Monique had also nursed a desire to snap-fasteners. run her own business and it was while awaiting the birth of “When I started this business one of my guiding principles her third child that she had her ‘light-bulb’ moment. was that that I source as many of my suppliers as Monique had always worn and appreciated Merino wool possible from within Australia and that my baby sleepwear and its natural benefits, “especially since superfine, low be made in Australia,” she said. micron Merino wool appeared on the market for adults”, Monique said she is not on a crusade and does not and thought it would be the perfect fibre for babies. disapprove of imported purchases, “but I think it is Following research on the subject, Monique and her important for a customer who is interested in the husband, Alex, noted the shortage of Australian Merino conditions under which their garment is made to have the baby wear, “let alone those that were Australian Made”. option to buy an Australian Made product”. “So that is where it began,” says Monique. Ewenique’s products are manufactured in Marrickville, “The simple mission of Ewenique is to provide parents Sydney. “Of course we could get a cheaper rate if we and care-givers with beautiful garments that are natural, manufactured off-shore but we will not go down that safe and healthy.” path,” said Monique. The Australian Merino wool used in Ewenique’s blankets “By manufacturing locally we can ensure the best quality and sleepwear range is graded superfine (18.5-micron) assurance and can pop in at any time to see how things which the Harpers believe offers the best year-round are going.” performance. “One of the perceptions of Merino is that it is very expensive “We only use 100 per cent Australian Merino wool in our but by only selling on-line we can better control the costs of garments and we do not blend it with cotton or synthetic our business and remove the margins that are traditionally fibres,” Monique said. added by the various parties in the retail chain. “We believe that if Merino is blended with other fibres it “For you this means that we can keep our prices realistic takes away from the natural benefits.” and affordable,” she said. The Harpers are Woolmark licensees “which means our The Ewenique website is easy to navigate with the garments and our Merino are put through rigorous tests moderately priced products sorted by type: romper, for strength, feel and safety”. blanket, beanie, sleeping bag and singlet. You’ve got to love the singlet – no riding up with this little gem as it has Why Merino in particular? Monique’s answer is that it is snap-fasteners just like a romper suit. Baby gift vouchers breathable, keeps its shape, is easy-care, warm in winter are also available and Ewenique offers free shipping. and cool in summer, protects and is comfortable and silky to the touch. All products offer a choice of five colours. “We wanted to set a point of difference with our colour range, so stayed “Merino fibres have a magical capacity to breathe and to away from the traditional pastel colours and opted for control moisture vapour next to the skin,” she said. bold, funky colours,” said Monique. “With its natural elasticity, Merino wool returns to its natural Further information: Email [email protected] shape after any number of washes.” or visit on-line at www.ewenique.com.au This mother of three young children says that Merino’s natural protective layer and dirt resistance contribute to the easy-care aspect. “All of our products are machine washable and dry quickly,” she said.

88 89 Strong Australian interest in South African conference

Visits to some of the top sheep farms in South Africa Stellenbosch, South Africa will be included as the tour continues on to game drives April 29 to May 1, 2014 and luxurious accommodation at Shamwari, the world’s leading safari and game reserve and conservation Expressions of interest in Merino 2014 – the 9th World company. Merino Conference, have been very strong according to Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders (AASMB) The final day on the road will be at Port Elizabeth, the coordinator for the Australian delegation, Carol-Ann centre of the South African wool trade, where the group Malouf. will be hosted by Cape Wools. “To date over 140 Australians have requested further Flying then to Cape Town, there will be the opportunity to information when it is available from conference and tour explore the historic and scenic delights of the region with organisers,” she said. a number of mini-tour and day trip options that include Robben Island, Cape Point, Table Mountain or one of “A final figure of even half this number will ensure excellent the multitude of wineries in the Cape area. For many, representation of our Australian Merino industry and great shopping at the Waterfront or visiting its large array of camaraderie on-tour. restaurants and bars, may suffice. “Many are people who have enjoyed at least two or three Accommodation in Cape Town will be at the 5-star previous World Merino conferences, so that is a stamp of Radisson Blu, situated on the beach next to the Waterfront approval.” with magnificent views of both Table Mountain and Robert Ashby, president of the World Federation of Merino Robben Island. Breeders (WFMB), under whose auspices world Merino While accommodation throughout the tours will have a conferences are held each four years, is most enthusiastic minimum 4-star rating, the exchange rate ensures that about the 2014 venue and host country, South Africa. the tour packages will be very moderately priced for “It will be a tremendous celebration of the Merino through Australians. a rich mix of farming, fibre and culture,” he said. A seven-day post-conference tour, to depart on Friday “This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for passionate May 2, will explore the Western Cape Province, travelling producers to share and learn all aspects of the Merino from Stellenbosch and overnighting in Matjiesfontein, and see a little of this very special part of the world at the Oudtshoorn, Knysna and Arniston before two nights at same time. Sanbona. This exclusive park has won numerous awards “We might like to think we know a fair bit about Merinos and is regarded as the premier reserve in the Western with Australia producing 90 per cent of the world’s apparel Cape. As is the case at Shamwari, game viewing includes wool, but there is always more to learn,” said Mr Ashby. the Big 5. “Woolgrowers often work alone or in small teams, so The AASMB, with the support of Australian Wool an opportunity such as this, to travel and see the world Innovation, is offering the only official tour (including travel, through the eyes of other farmers, is always a great tour/s, conference registration) to Merino 2014. experience.” Carol-Ann Malouf has been appointed coordinator of Stud and commercial sheep and wool producers, the Australian delegation to Merino 2014 and interested geneticists, scientists, wool brokers and industry figures persons may register an expression of interest with her. from throughout the world, including the 13 member Travel, conference and tour itineraries and costs will be countries of the WFMB, will gather in the historic town of available from late September. Stellenbosch from April 29 to May 1. Contact: Carol-Ann Malouf, ph (02) 6895 2274, 0427 119 The two-day conference, titled “Merino Breeding: 535, or email [email protected] Sustainable Enterprise – Cherished Lifestyle”, is to be preceded by a Merino Expo during which there will also be a joint session with IWTO whose annual congress is to run concurrently in Cape Town. Bookending the conference are tours travelling with Springbok Atlas, one of South Africa’s most established and best-known travel and tour management companies. For over six decades they have moved millions of travellers safely and reliably across South Africa. The pre-conference tour heads out of Johannesburg just over a week prior to the conference. Aimed at showcasing the beauty of South Africa and the diversity of its magnificent landscape and people, the tour will also afford the opportunity to explore and learn about the local Merino industry as it passes through the Golden Gate Highlands National Park to Bloemfontein, Gariep Dam and Graaff-Reinet.

90 Maremma guardian dogs, donkeys and coordinated baiting programs to attempt to stem the problem. On-property ram sales have been very strong, with reports of 90 to 100 pc clearances and averages of over $1400. President’s The 2013 Queensland State Sheep Show was held in Roma on May 10 and 11, judged by John message - Daniell and Angus Munro. We welcomed the support of exhibitors from interstate Queensland who experienced the hospitality of our premier event. Queensland has experienced another good season through 2012 with most of the State receiving more than Sadly our secretary, Bill Benjamin, has informed me that its average rainfall. January and February 2013 saw he and Rosemary will be retiring in August at our AGM. record-breaking rain over the coastal regions, with up Bill was first elected to council in 1973. He was chairman to 1000mm of rain over a 48-hour period. Other areas of the Queensland Branch of the Poll Merino Breeders experienced heavy falls for three continuous weeks, with Association in 1975-1976 and then appointed secretary of flood rain cutting communication cables and roads for the Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders Association days. (QMSSA) in 1980. His wife Rosemary was appointed assistant secretary four years later in 1984. The western sheep areas of Queensland only experienced isolated falls and many of us are still in desperate need of In 1986 Bill was made an honorary associate member rain to get us through winter. of the QMSSA, and Rosemary in 1995. In Bill’s time as secretary, there have been twelve presidents of the Lambing figures have been reported as varied. Again the association and only fourteen prior. Since 1945 there have wild dogs have played havoc among the flocks. Those only been three secretaries of the association. producers who have made a concerted effort to control wild dogs have reaped the benefits, with figures reported We thank Bill and Rosemary for all they have done for to be in excess of 90 per cent. the association and wish them all the very best in their retirement. Others that have not done enough to control the invasion of dogs are back to less than 20pc. Many of us now have As this is my fourth and final year as Queensland electric or conventional dog fencing and use trappers, president and Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders’ (AASMB) delegate, I would like to thank the AASMB presidents, past and present, Tom Ashby and Phil Toland and State delegates, for my time with the The Top Twelve Australian council. It has been a wonderful experience.. Thank you for your friendship, support and professionalism. I am confident that the Merino industry is QUEENSLAND TOP RAM SALES 2012 * in good hands, thanks to the calibre of the AASMB. I wish Stud Rams Sold you all the very best for 2013. 1 Barcaldine Downs/Barcaldine Downs Poll 456 Duncan Ferguson 2 Mount Ascot 450 President 2 Boyanga/Karbullah Poll 339 Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders Association 4 Lansdowne/Lansdowne Poll 280 5 Coreena Poll 160 6 Roselea/Roselea Poll 155 7 Victoria Downs/Victoria Downs Poll 100 Queensland Merino 8 Wattle Downs/Wattle Downs Poll 99 Stud Sheepbreeders’ 9 Jolly Jumbuck Poll 80 Association (Inc) 10 Bullamon Plains 65 11 Coban 48 Secretary: Bill Benjamin 12 Murrawondah Poll 43 Address: PO Box 7 Clifton Qld 4361 QUEENSLAND TOP SEMEN SALES 2012 * Phone: 07 4697 3569 Stud Doses Fax: 07 4697 3649 1 Karbullah Poll/Boyanga 508 Email: [email protected] 2 Karmala 20 President: Duncan Ferguson * Extracted from 2012 Annual Returns as at 11 June 2013 Phone: 07 4651 1608 Sales from two or more studs of the same owner are combined. Fax: 07 4651 1535 “The Top Twelve” is published each year as a record from Annual Returns. Mobile: 0427 114 461

91 State Sheep Show Queensland

The happiest person at this year’s Queensland State Sheep Show, held in Roma in May, was Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders’ Association (QMSSA) president, Duncan Ferguson, Barcaldine Downs, Huge applause greeted the announcement of the Queensland Ram of the Barcaldine. Year, the first in the 80-year history of Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, held This was not only as a result of the outstanding success of here by stud manager, Duncan Ferguson. Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life this year’s show which saw 23 Merino studs in contention of the year titles, Queensland breeders group and pairs, for the honours, but also as Barcaldine Downs had won its but the Ram of the Year was an award that had eluded first Queensland Ram of the Year title in the stud’s 80-year us,” he said. history. Mr Ferguson named the winning ram Barcaldine Downs “We have won everything else and been the bridesmaid Ian in recognition of the 34 year contribution made to the (to this title) for the last two years,” said Duncan, manager stud by Dubbo-based sheep classer, Ian Marwedel. The of Clark and Tait’s Barcaldine Downs Merino and Poll rising two-year-old ram weighed in at 122kg with 21.2- Merino studs. micron wool. He had 15.5CV, SD of 3.3 and comfort factor “It’s a bit of a relief because we have won numerous ewe (CF) of 99.6 per cent.

92 Ian the ram will represent Queensland in contesting the 2013 Rabobank Australian Supreme Merino Ram title in Dubbo in late August. “We will then use him in our AI program and mate him in the paddock to our top ewes,” said Mr Ferguson. The ram was also Queensland junior ram of the year and reserve champion medium wool Poll ram behind North Ashrose Metric which went on to be named supreme exhibit of the show. Tom Ashby, North Ashrose stud had brought nine rams on the 1700km journey from Gulnare, South Australia, his third consecutive trip to the Queensland fixture. Of the 132 sheep placed before the judges, Tom said “the competition was the best I have seen in Queensland.” The 21-micron North Ashrose Metric weighed a massive 141kg, measuring 14.3CV, SD of 3.0 and CF of 99.3pc. An ET ram sired by East Strathglen Sir Dick, Metric was also named South Australian Field Day Ram of the Year at Tom Ashby, North Ashrose, Gulnare, South Australia, with his supreme the SA Stud Merino Expo at Burra in March. exhibit and grand champion Poll Merino ram of the 2013 Queensland State Sheep Show. Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life Also in competition for the supreme title in Roma were three NSW champions; the grand champion Merino ram “We all noted his extreme length of body, very correct top from One Oak, Jerilderie, the grand champion Merino line, heavy bone and basic correctness. ewe from Roseville Park, Dubbo and the grand champion Poll ewe from Alfoxton Poll, Armidale. “He also appealed to us for his productive traits, for his overall size, wool cutting ability, length of staple and well Judge John Daniell, White River, Minnipa, SA, said he and nourished sire’s wool,” Mr Daniell said. co-judge, Angus Munro, Boonoke, Deniliquin, NSW, and associates, Catherine Roberts, Victoria Downs, Morven, The Brumpton family of Mitchell, Queensland, always enjoys and Allycia Bennett, Lansdowne, Tambo, were impressed success at this fixture and this year was no exception. Nigel with the strong competition. and Rosemary Brumpton’s Mount Ascot stud showed the Queensland champion pair and had the Queensland junior “I don’t think you would get a better line-up of top sheep ram of the year, runner-up in the Queensland ram of the to pick a supreme from,” he said. year and reserve junior champion ram of the show. The He said Metric’s sheer size made him a standout. “He was ewe of the pair was also reserve junior champion ewe and outstanding for his overall make, shape and confirmation. reserve champion strong wool ewe. BARCALDINE DOWNS Poll & Merino Stud WINTON RAM SALE · SEPTEMBER · WINTON RACECOURSE

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93 The pair will now represent Queensland in the Stock & Retiring from exhibiting sheep after 50 years in the show Land National Pairs competition at Bendigo in July. ring, Jan Lowing, Karmala stud, Nobby, Queensland, Mount Ascot also showed the grand champion ewe fleece exited on a high note after winning the Queensland Ewe of the show but Mr Brumpton said “I was beaten by the of the Year title. Ms Lowing said she was a little sad about kids for the supreme fleece”. her “swan song” but will keep the sheep going and keep breeding Kelpies, “but I just won’t show sheep any more”. He was referring to the couple’s three children, Felicity, Charlie and Lachlan, principals of Jolly Jumbuck Poll stud, Queensland State Sheep Show is renowned for its who won the supreme award with their grand champion hospitality and also for a good party and the tradition was ram fleece. Jolly Jumbuck stud was also most successful upheld this year with the QMSSA dinner on the first night. Poll exhibitor of the show, winning reserve grand Special guests for the evening were QMSSA Patron and champion Poll ewe, reserve fine wool ewe and reserve Governor of Queensland, Penelope Wensley AC and her junior champion Poll ewe. husband, Stuart McCosker. Felicity Brumpton also won the Merino judging competition with Douglas Rodgers, Barcaldine Downs stud, runner-up.

Barcaldine Downs’s jackeroos, Joe Kerin and Douglas Rodgers holding the champion medium wool Poll Merino ewe and reserve champion strong wool Poll Merino ewe which combined to be reserve exhibit in the Queensland champion pair. Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life Queensland Governor, Penelope Wensley, sashes the Queensland Champion Ewe of the Year, held by owner, Jan Lowing, Karmala Merino stud, Nobby. Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life

The winning Queensland pair from the Brumpton family’s Mount Ascot, Mitchell with Heather Brumpton, Mount Ascot; judges Angus Munro, Boonoke, Deniliquin, NSW; Allycia Bennett, Lansdowne stud, Tambo; Graham Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie, NSW, holds his grand champion ram Catherine Roberts, Victoria Downs, Morven; John Daniell, White River, as it is sashed by judges, Angus Munro, Boonoke, Deniliquin, NSW, and Minnipa, SA; and Nigel Brumpton, Mount Ascot stud, Mitchell (front). John Daniell, White River, Minnipa, SA. Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life Photo courtesy Queensland Country Life

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Supreme Exhibit Poll Merino Breeders Group Reserve North Ashrose, Gulnare, SA North Ashrose, Gulnare, SA Jolly Jumbuck, Mitchell, Qld

Supreme Poll Exhibit Qld. Junior Ram of the Year Holders Trophy North Ashrose, Gulnare, SA Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, Qld Zarettha Stedman Qld. Junior Ewe of the Year Queensland Ram of the Year Mt Ascot, Mitchell, Qld Merino Judging Competition Barcaldine Downs, Barcaldine, Qld Grand Champion Ram 1 Felicity Brumpton One Oak, Jerilderie, NSW * 2 Douglas Rodgers Queensland Ewe of the Year Reserve Karmala, Nobby, Qld Roseville Park, Dubbo, NSW Grand Champion Fleece Grand Champion Ewe Jolly Jumbuck, Mitchell, Qld Merino Aggregate Roseville Park, Dubbo, NSW Grand Champion Ram Fleece Roseville Park, Dubbo, NSW Reserve Jolly Jumbuck, Mitchell, Qld Poll Merino Aggregate Roseville Park, Dubbo, NSW Grand Champion Ewe Fleece Jolly Jumbuck, Mitchell, Qld Grand Champion Poll Ram Mt Ascot, Mitchell, Qld North Ashrose, Gulnare, SA Qld. Champion Pair Reserve Mt Ascot, Mitchell, Qld North Ashrose, Gulnare, SA * = winner of same award in previous year Supreme Breeders Group Grand Champion Poll Ewe One Oak, Jerilderie, NSW Alfoxton Poll, Armidale, NSW *

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95 Huskissons celebrate 100

In September, members of Queensland’s Huskisson family will return to where it all began 100 years ago to William Milward Thomas Huskisson and his wife, Mabel, with their celebrate the vision of their forebears. four children in 1908, before the family departed for Australia. On June 19, 1913, William Milward Thomas Huskisson and his wife, Mabel Elizabeth (nee Green) and their four children, William 14, Herbert 10, Mabel 9 and Winnifred 7, Mr and Mrs Huskisson’s son William married Thelma left their English home at Crondall, Kent, to embark on the Daisy Wharton in 1930 and the couple resided on portion epic journey to Australia arriving in the Queensland capital, 28, raising two boys, William (the current Bill Huskisson) Brisbane, on August 11, 1913. and Les. A butcher by trade, William Huskisson took his first job in In May 1938, when the current Bill Huskisson was six Australia as a labourer on the construction of the saleyard years old, Queensland’s first Merino flock ewe competition abattoir at Connon Hill in Brisbane. The family then was held at The Gums. The rules of competition were that travelled to The Gums, arriving in October 1913. From 5 per cent of the exhibitors ewe flock was to be penned maps at the Dalby Lands Office en route from Brisbane, for judging. It is interesting to note the Huskisson family blocks of land at The Gums were selected. results; Mr Huskisson, his son in-law Peter Dalheimer, and The family camped at the council dam for several months his son William, took out three of the top five places. So until their slab dwelling with earthen floors was completed. began 75 years of selective breeding to deliver today’s During the first five years William Huskisson had a share Merinos at Wattle Downs stud. dairying contract, began development of his family block Bill Huskisson studied sheep and wool at technical college (which they had called “Crondall”), started a dairying in Brisbane in the late 1940s and returned home to run operation, eradicated the dingoes and established the first the family properties. This was the beginning of a lifelong Merino flock at The Gums. commitment to the sheep and wool industry and until Thus began the Huskisson’s future in Australia’s Merino recently, Bill was also a professional wool classer. sheep industry. In the 1950s all the local properties had sheep and most In 1921, three more blocks of land were selected about would have 300 to 500 bale wool clips. There was a huge 13km south of The Gums. The condition of selection future for wool in this area, but unfortunately now there are required the owners to control the spread of prickly pear virtually no sheep left – it’s all cattle and grain. and the blocks were known as “Prickly Pear Selections”. At the end of World War II, Joh Bjelke-Petersen arrived One block was taken up by Mr Huskisson and one by each at Wattle Downs with two army tanks and started pulling of his sons, William and Herbert. Mr Huskisson took up the Brigalow scrub on the Huskisson properties. Bjelke- portion 28, William took portion 29 and Herbert, portion 30. Petersen later upgraded to bull dozers and went on to These blocks were covered with dense prickly pear and clear Brigalow on numerous surrounding properties Brigalow scrub. The only method of eradication was opening up the areas for grain and livestock. He also with the axe and arsenic poison pot – until the release of established the Wattle Downs airstrip and ran a crop the cactoblastis moth. As soon as they were able, the dusting business from there as well as using it for his own Huskissons increased their Merino flocks on portions personal use. 28 and 29, which are today the home of Wattle Downs Bill married Loma Slean in 1955, and together in 1956 Merino and Poll Merino studs. they registered the Wattle Downs Merino stud. They raised two children Peter and Karen. Wattle Downs Poll Merino stud was registered in 1974 by 16-year-old Peter, with the purchase of Roselea Poll ewes. In 1976 after Peter passed away, the Poll stud was taken over by his sister, Karen. Now, 75 years on from that first flock ewe competition, and after 100 years of blood, sweat and tears, floods, fires and droughts, the Huskissons continue to remain focused on the Merino industry, still competing and winning numerous supreme awards for their fabulous Merino sheep and wool. With the sixth generation of the Huskisson family residing at Wattle Downs and the original properties “Crondall” and portions 28 and 29 remaining in the family, the future Bill and Herbert Huskisson sinking a dam in 1930. looks sound for the Huskisson family and the Wattle Downs Merino and Poll Merino studs.

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With 762mm in 70 days in the heat of a Queensland summer, you could expect a fly problem, but that was not the case at Wilgunya Merino stud, Dirranbandi. Ewes in full wool with 112 per cent of August/September lambs at foot were due to be shorn in the last week of Select for November. Then it started to rain – 20mm one day; 25mm the next. Seventy days and 762mm later, sheep were standing up to their bellies in water and shearing still had Superior Wools not started. Stud principal, Max Wilson, found that not one ewe was Lustrous wools with struck and only the occasional lamb had a bit of spot excellent definition. strike. “I was expecting to get a flogging from worms but they must have drowned,” he said. “Our breeding emphasis has been to produce sheep with a great constitution and high fertility with 100mm Select for of lustrous deep crimping wool that stays micron static throughout the life of the ewe. High fertility and high lambing survival rates are paramount. Staple Length Wilgunya’s breeding ewe micron average is about 19- Gutsy wool with micron. While no effort has been placed on micron reduction, Max Wilson has noted that as lustre and staple weight. alignment improve, so micron reduces and becomes more stable. “Keep the secondary/primary skin follicle ratio high and you don’t have any trouble with flat thin skins and wools Select for that cut less and less each year,” Max said. In 2012, Wilgunya Merino stud won best Queensland Constitution exhibit at Bendigo’s Australian Sheep and Wool Show for the second time. The stud also won awards in Free growing wools Goondiwindi, Tenterfield and Sydney and showed the reserve champion ewe fleece in Brisbane. on easy care carcase. At the 2012 annual ram sale in October, Mr Wilson stood 80 single rams and for the first time, 17 pens of three. The single pens averaged $1751.00 and the pens of three, $958.00, with a 100pc clearance. In 2013 there will be 500 rams available for sale, with the Max Wilson on-property sale beginning the season on October 10. The Wilson family invites your interest at any time. Wilgunya Merino Stud Further information: Max Wilson, ph (07) 4625 8214 or 0427 258 214. Dirranbandi Qld 4486

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97 Don Brown Pictorial

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99 Seen at the Rabobank National

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102 Queensland Sheep Show 1 Dinner

The Queensland State Sheep Show is renowned for its hospitality, no matter the location. This year in Roma was no exception and a highlight was the 2013 State Sheep Show Celebration Dinner hosted by the Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders Association (QMSSA). QMSSA Patron and Governor of Queensland, Penelope Wensley AC and her husband, Stuart McCosker, were the evening’s special 2 guests.

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105 On the Fall of the Hammer ON-PROPERTY SALE RESULTS 2012 – 2013 Ram Selling Season

Stud Sold Top Average Stud Sold Top Average $ $ $ $ ADINA, Cooma 26 1600 973 LYNFORD POLL, Hargraves 12 6200 1909 AIRLIE, Walcha 41 4000 1805 MAIN RANGE, Berridale 11 1900 817 ALFOXTON, Armidale 51 6000 1435 MERRIGNEE, Boorowa 79 4200 1297 ALLENDALE, Wellington 46 3300 1378 MERRYVILLE, Boorowa 164 4000 1729 AVENEL, Wanganella 89 3000 (3) 1710 MIDDLE VIEW, Dalgety 73 10,500 2061 AVONSIDE, Cooma 16 1600 744 MUMBLEBONE, Wellington 100 3600 1186 BALLATHERIE POLL, Hillston 60 1950 865 NERSTANE, Woolbrook 205 4800 1562 BELLA LANA, Wellington 60 3300 951 ONE OAK studs, Jerilderie 127 15,000 (2) 1512 BLAXLAND POLL, Tamworth 32 650 (3) 605 ONE OAK POLL, Jerilderie 61 2400 1252 BLYTH MERINOS, Adelong 132 2600 1132 PARKDALE, Dubbo 96 3600 1300 BOCOBLE, Mudgee 50 1900 1017 PEMCAW, Dunedoo 75 3500 1250 BOGO, Bookham 177 4800 1277 PETALI, Walcha 51 4000 1847 BORAMBIL, Balldale 97 7000 1902 POLL BOONOKE, Deniliquin 50 3600 1128 BOUDJAH, Cooma 68 3600 1492 POOGINOOK, Jerilderie 247 10,000 1700 BUNDALEER, Walla Walla 76 2500 1096 QUEENLEE, Uralla 56 2800 1208 BUNDILLA, Young 146 6600 1925 RICHMOND, Quandialla 79 4800 (2) 1662 BUNGULLA, Manilla 105 3600 (3) 1796 ROGARA POLL, Goulburn 56 2600 1118 CARRABUNGLA, Laggan 77 2600 1214 ROSEVILLE PARK, Dubbo 148 22,000 2320 CODDINGTON POLL, Dubbo 97 3800 1474 ROUND PLAIN, Berridale 6 800 750 CONRAYN, Berridale 26 1800 938 SHALIMAR PARK, Walcha 47 2400 (2) 907 CORA LYNN, Peak Hill 59 4000 1504 SNOWY PLAIN, Berridale 29 4200 1336 COTTAGE PARK, Cooma 82 4000 1570 TALLAWONG, Yass 113 2400 1167 CRESSBROOK, Armidale 121 7000 1948 TARA PARK, Boorowa 90 7500 1929 DARRIWELL, Trundle 117 9000 1346 THALABAH, Crookwell 59 4000 1125 DEMONDRILLE, Harden 90 5500 1938 TOWALBA, Peak Hill 116 6500 1414 DUNBOGAN, Elong Elong 42 2300 1380 UARDRY studs, Hay 137 4400 1314 EGELABRA, Warren 162 9600 1922 WALWA, Gurrundah 50 2500 1068 GENANEGIE, Peak Hill 80 2800 1143 WANGANELLA, Deniliquin 70 3000 1474 GLANNA, Gulgong 71 2800 1115 WAVERLEY DOWNS, Delungra 41 1350 744 GLENOAK, Nundle 20 2400 920 WEEALLA, Balladoran 81 3600 1147 GLENWOOD, Wellington 53 2700 1004 WENDOUREE, Grenfell 60 1700 520 GRASSY CREEK, Reids Flat 63 4500 1728 WESTRAY, Peak Hill 56 5400 1678 GRATHLYN, Hargraves 23 1600 860 WEST VALE, Wollun 29 2600 883 GREENLAND, Bungarby 57 2500 1214 WILLANDRA, Jerilderie 92 18,000 1590 GROGANSWORTH, Bowning 52 4200 2196 WINYAR, Canowindra 72 6200 2199 GULLENDAH, Baldry 48 2500 1271 WOODPARK POLL, Hay 116 5000 1791 GULLENGAMBLE, Yeoval 136 3800 (2) 1351 WOOLAROO, Yass 41 3200 1331 HADDON RIG, Warren 108 4000 1675 WYUNA, Armatree 44 1300 913 HAVILAH, Mudgee 19 2300 905 YALGOO, Walcha 79 5600 1830 HAZELDEAN, Cooma 143 4000 1707 YARRAWONGA, Harden 154 8600 2368 HAZELDEAN, Hay 111 2400 1288 HILLCRESTON / HEIGHTS, Bigga 52 4500 1594 HILLCRESTON PARK, Bigga 52 4000 (2) 1829 MULTI-VENDOR SALES Sold Top Average JOHNSON PARK, Yass 23 1653 1030 ARMIDALE RAM SALE 59 15,000 3347 KARORI, Walcha 59 2400 (2) 1135 ARMIDALE UNHOUSED 46 2600 1157 KELVIN VALE, Uralla 22 2000 664 EASTERN RIVERINA 84 3500 1547 KERIN POLL, Yeoval 150 7400 1833 GT SOUTHERN SUPREME, 59 11,500 2532 KERI KERI, Moulamein 79 3500 1005 Canberra KIROB, Laggan 34 1400 750 MUDGEE RAM SALE 34 6750 2163 KIRKTON, Burraga 19 4400 1021 NEW ENGLAND 40 1000 629 KOONWARRA, Boorowa 54 2400 (3) 1127 SUPERFINE BREEDERS KURRAJONG PARK, Delungra 38 2500 1269 RABOBANK NATIONAL, 46 44,000 5891 LACHLAN MERINOS, Forbes 102 5000 1962 Dubbo (2012) LANGDENE, Dunedoo 119 9000 2346 E & OE LORELMO POLL, Walcha 41 4600 1117

106 Tops of the season 2012-13

Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville Park, Dubbo, Top price on-property in the 2012-13 selling season was the $22,000 paid for RP11-0011 from Matthew and Cherie Coddington’s Roseville recorded the highest top price of the NSW selling season Park stud, Dubbo. in 2012-13. Sold to a syndicate of Andrew and Karen Jones, company’s new Merino property. He went on to purchase “Invercarron”, Broadmarsh, Tasmania; Damian Meaburn an additional six rams for an average of $1933. of Lowick stud, Andover, Tasmania; and Steve and Liz The top-priced ram, which weighed in at 111kg, had Phillips, Yarrawonga stud, Harden, was RP11-0011, an placed second in the recent Riverina Ram of the Year 18.2-micron son of Roseville Park’s impact sire, 09-0014. competition. With 21.2-micron wool, it measured 3.5 SD, The ram was a full brother to RP11-0010, the 2012 16.5 CV and 99 CF. Overall, Willandra cleared 92 of 100 Midstate Merinos Elders Premier Hogget Ram which was Merino and Poll Merino rams for an average of $1590. also grand champion medium wool March-shorn ram at Next in the order of sales was a double-header for the 2012 Rabobank National in Dubbo, and later sold to Graham and Mary Wells, One Oak, Jerilderie, with two Winyar, Canowindra for $15,000 rams selling for $15,000 each. At sale’s end, the Wells RP11-0011 had a body weight of 117 kilograms and had sold 127 rams from their three Merino studs. further measurements of 2.3-micron standard deviation The sale opened on a strong note when Lot 1, the (SD), 17.0 per cent coefficient of variation (CV) and 99.5pc first sale-topper, was purchased by Kim Henderson, CF. His ASBV for fleece weight was +24. Grogansworth, Bowning, from the One Oak No 2 stud. Roseville Park’s average for the sale of 147 from 149 The 19.5-micron, 115kg ram with 99.8 CF, was sired rams was $2320, the third-highest average recorded in by the White River ram which was supreme Merino at NSW for the season. Adelaide Royal in 2010. Second top-price for the season, similarly to last year was By the same sire, the other top-priced ram, this time from paid for a Poll Merino from the Wells family’s Willandra the One Oak stud, was sold to Rod and Meg Hardie, Poll stud, Jerilderie. The $18,000 ram went to new client, “Currawong”, Tallimba. The 17.9-micron ram with 99.9 CF Kilcoolin Pastoral Company, Euroa, Victoria. had recently been grand champion March-shorn ram at Kilcoolin manager, Dale West, said he liked the length and Adelaide Royal. depth of the ram and that it was the perfect sire for the Coming in at fourth position in the recorded NSW results was a fine wool Poll Merino ram sold by Bob and Mikala Walters, Middle View Poll stud, Delegate. The Middle View Merino and Poll Merino studs combined to sell 72 rams for an average of $2061. Buyer of the top-priced 15.8-micron ram was Mark Hedley, Australian Wool Network southern region manager, Goulburn, for Rural Property Management, “Woodside”, Evansford, Victoria. The 2012-13 season’s top average on-property was the $2367 secured by Steve and Liz Phillips, Yarrawonga, Harden, who sold 154 rams to $8600. Following were Langdene, Dunedoo, selling 199 to a top of $9000 and $2346 average; Roseville Park, Dubbo ($2320); Winyar, Canowindra, selling 72 rams to a top of $6200 and average of $2199; and worthy of note, with 52 rams selling to $4200, was the $2196 average of Grogansworth, Bowning. As one stud vendor emphasised, even though results such as those noted above are a great result for the Kevin Norris, Landmark, Albury; Russell Mawson, Landmark, Euroa, breeder and a mark of outstanding sire potential, hogget Victoria, and Dale West, manager of Kilcoolin Pastoral Company, Euroa, sales also offer large selections of rams that sell around paid $18,000 for the top priced Willandra Poll Merino ram, pictured with the $800 to $1500 mark, providing affordable quality Willandra stud principal Ross Wells, Jerilderie. genetics for most buyers.

107 2013 Merino Calendar Updates Thursday 5 September (changed location and contact) South West Slopes Stud Merino Field Day St Clements Retreat, Kalangan Road, Galong Enq: Philip Brown, ph 0418 214 897

Tuesday 10 September (previously listed as 3 September) Karoola Downs Poll, Adelong, on-property sale Enq: James Derrick, ph 0408 694 209

Friday 20 September (changed location) Coddington Poll on-property sale “Catombal”, Avondale Road, Yeoval With One Oak’s equal top price $15,000 rams are Rod Hardie, Enq: Graham Coddington, ph 0428 638 129 “Currawong”, Tallimba; One Oak principal, Graham Wells; George and www.coddingtonpoll.com.au Kim Henderson, Grogansworth stud, Bowning; and One Oak classer, Ian Marwedel, Dubbo. Thursday 3 October (changed location) Kirkton, Burraga, Ram Sale, Bathurst Showground Enq: Chris Stapleton, ph (02) 6337 0366 www.kirktonstud.com

Monday 14 October One Oak Poll, Jerilderie, on-property sale Enq: Alistair Wells, ph (03) 5886 7117

Monday 21 October (previously listed as Monday 20 October) Woolaroo, Yass, on-property sale Enq: Peter Walker, ph (02) 6226 1104 www.woolaroo.com.au

Monday 21 October (previously listed as Monday 20 October) Grogansworth, Bowning, on-property sale Enq: Kim Henderson, ph (02) 6227 6085 Australian Wool Network southern region manager, Mark Hedley, www.grogansworth.com.au Goulburn, with Bob Walters, Middle View Merino and Poll studs, Dalgety, and his $10,500 ram. 2014 Elders Merino Calendar Entries close 13 September 2013 Contact Carol-Ann Malouf ph (02) 6895 2274 Email [email protected]

The 2014 Elders Merino Calendar will be available in mid-December For copies contact The Australian Merino Centre, ph (02) 9763 2744

Contributing to the top NSW average of $2368 for Yarrawonga stud, Harden, was the $8600 ram purchased by Michael Hedger, Snowy Plains stud, Cooma. Pictured are Jack Hedger, 12; Michael Hedger; Sam Phillips, 12; his father, Yarrawonga principal, Steve Phillips; and Steve’s daughter, Georgia, 14. Photos courtesy The Land

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Allendale Austral-Eden Poll Ballatherie Poll F. No. 4399 F. No. 3389 Poll F. No. 1255 A A.E. & P.J. Inder J.A. & B.G. Johnston Ballatherie Pastoral Co Acacia-Canary “Nyrang” Wyalong No 1 “Ballatherie”, PO Box 57 Island Wellington 2820 1821 Mid Western H’way Hillston 2675 F. No. 2770 P: 02 6845 3402 West Wyalong 2671 P: 02 6967 2664 Chalmers Acacia P’ship M: 0427 745 110 P: 02 6972 0299 M: 0428 678 136 PO Box 47 [email protected] [email protected] Deniliquin 2710 Avenel P: 03 5882 5932 Aloeburn Poll F. No. 3417 Ballyhooley [email protected] Poll F. No. 1101 Avenel Partnership F. No. 4557 Aloeburn Pty Ltd “Avenel” Murrumdon Pty Ltd Adina “Aloeburn” Wanganella 2710 “Ballyhooley” F. No. 4156 Boree Creek 2652 P: 03 5884 7548 Boorowa 2586 R.J., M.J. & J.R. Barron P: 02 6927 1435 M: 0428 847 548 P: 02 6385 6238 “Adina”, Peak View Rd M: 0428 271 434 [email protected] M: 0429 856 238 via Cooma 2630 [email protected] www.avenpart-avenel.com ballyhooleyrd P: 02 6454 3149 @skymesh.com.au M: 0411 267 818 Anglewood Avonside [email protected] F. No. 3628 F. No. 4624 Bella Lana Anglewood Merino Stud King Family Partnership F. No. 5050 Adina Poll “Anglewood” “Muniong” S.I. & A.I. Brien Poll F. No. 1437 Dunedoo 2844 2778 Snowy Mountains “Birrell Vale” R.J., M.J. & J.R. Barron P: 02 6375 1245 H’way Dripstone 2820 “Overdale” Cooma 2630 P: 02 6846 7477 2120 Peak View Rd Appledore P: 02 6453 7199 M: 0409 467 477 via Cooma 2630 F. No. 5081 M: 0414 897 390 [email protected] P: 02 6454 3015 Appledore Pastoral Company [email protected] www.bellalanamerinos.com.au M: 0411 267 818 “Appledore” www.monaromerinos.com.au [email protected] Barraba 2347 /avonside.html Bellaine M: 0429 821 250 F. No. 5045 Airlie appledorepastco D.K. Maxwell & C.J. Peardon F. No. 2225 – Poll F. No. 1283 @bigpond.com “Mannum Park” Iona Partnership Guyra 2365 “Iona” Auchen Dhu P: 02 6779 4262 Walcha 2354 B F. No. 1771 Ba Mack M: 0412 823 658 P: 02 6777 3936 [email protected] Auchen Dhu Pastoral Co F. No. 5071 M: 0429 918 631 PO Box 42 www.bellaine.com [email protected] J.T.F. & D.J. Gardiner Walcha 2354 1367 Windeyer Road P: 02 6777 9106 Bellevue Park Alfoxton Windeyer 2850 M: 0401 844 164 P: 02 6373 8312 F. No. 4780 F. No. 4294 – Poll F. No. 1333 [email protected] P: 02 6372 1866 F.W. & W.J. Fletcher C.W. & L.S. Clonan [email protected] “Bellevue” “Alfoxton”, Wattle Drive Austral-Eden www.bamackhomestead.com Berridale 2628 Armidale 2350 F. No. 3389 P: 02 6456 8892 P: 02 6775 3245 J.A. & B.G. Johnston [email protected] M: 0429 125 567 Wyalong No 1 [email protected] 1821 Mid Western H’way West Wyalong 2671 P: 02 6972 0299

110 Belswick Bogo Boreela Bulgandri Poll F. No. 998 F. No. 4792 - Poll F. No. 1301 F. No. 2267 Poll F. No. 1374 P.J. & T. L’Estrange M.F.A. Elsegood F. Gaden L.K. Mathews & Sons PO Box 226 32 Burrawong Ave “Lockerbie” “Ronavis”, Triggs Road Condobolin 2877 Clifton Gardens 2088 Dunedoo 2844 Rand 2642 P: 02 6897 5201 P: 02 6227 7152 (Mgr) P: 02 6375 1426 P: 02 6029 5282 M: 0427 875 207 M: 0408 426 103 [email protected] M: 0409 818 559 [email protected] Billa Burra Burra www.bogomerinos.com.au Boudjah Bulla Gully F. No. 3749 – Poll F. No. 1092 F. No. 5049 F. No. 4271 K.W. & L.M. McGrath Bonanza M.J. & M. Green T.D. & W.T. Pike Black Range Road F. No. 2811 “Boudjah” “Sunny Hills” Kars Springs Yass 2582 S.J. Dugan & Co Old Dangelong Road via Scone 2337 P: 02 6227 6383 PO Box 342 Cooma 2630 P: 02 6545 7253 M: 0428 625 658 Lightning Ridge 2834 P: 02 6452 6651 [email protected] P: 02 6828 8452 M: 0407 225 825 Bullamalita M: 0427 288 412 [email protected] F. No. 2444 – Poll F. No. 224 Blaxland Poll [email protected] Bullamalita Pastoral Co P/L Poll F. No. 1296 Bough Yard RMB 921 Whitmore Pastoral Co Bontara F. No. 4505 Goulburn 2580 “Lyndhurst” F. No. 4629 P.J. Bush P: 02 4829 5118 286 Bayliss Lane P.M. Luff 25 Pettit Street Tamworth 2340 PO Box 147 Yass 2582 Bundaleer P: 02 6760 4208/4228 Gundagai 2722 P: 02 6226 1781 F. No. 4403 – Poll F. No. 1449 markblaxland P: 02 6944 0200 b.h. P.J. & G.L. Lieschke @skymesh.com.au P: 02 6945 3143 a.h. Box Moor Pine Ridge, RMB 123 [email protected] F. No. 4329 Walla Walla 2659 Blenmore W.C. Doak P: 02 6029 0128/0142 F. No. 4311 Booabula “Box Moor” [email protected] Blenmore Partnership F. No. 520 Bundarra 2359 www.bundaleermerinostud. “Blenmore” J. Alston Wallace Pty Ltd P: 02 6723 7330 com.au 679 Carlon-Menzies Road “Ring-A-Rah” M: 0429 237 330 Uralla 2358 RMB 372 Howlong Road Bundemar P: 02 6778 2130 Albury 2640 Bralca F. No. 11 M: 0429 181 831 P: 02 6021 3543 F. No. 5048 Bundemar B. & F. Watts “West Borambil” Bluebush Poll Boonoke “Waidup Homestead” Condobolin 2877 Poll F. No. 1402 F. No. 7 – Poll F. No. 1 Mitchell H’way P: 02 6895 2562 I.M. Lilburne Pty Ltd F.S. Falkiner & Sons Pty Ltd Molong 2866 [email protected] Box 417 “Boonoke” P: 02 6366 8706 Hay 2711 Deniliquin 2710 M: 0428 668 706 Bundilla P: 02 6993 4099 P: 03 5884 6604/6608 [email protected] F. No. 4081 – Poll F. No. 1435 M: 0428 505 252 [email protected] Baldwin Property www.fsfalkiner.com.au Brecon “Bundilla”, Tubbul Road Blyth F. No. 1478 Young 2594 F. No. 4859 Boonongo John Brooker P: 02 6383 3802/3823 Belela Pty Ltd F. No. 4786 PO Box 668 M: 0429 833 837 “Bobacumbola”, RMB 530 Boonongo Pastoral Co Cootamundra 2590 [email protected] Adelong 2729 “Boonongo” P: 02 6942 7114 www.bundillamerinos.com.au P: 02 6944 7566 Morundah 2700 M: 0428 966 223 [email protected] P: 02 6959 7405 [email protected] Bungulla M: 0417 292 364 F. No. 3485 – Poll F. No. 1401 Bocoble [email protected] Brundanella Bungulla Partnership F. No. 1336 – Poll F. No. 1064 F. No. 4759 “Calool” Cox Bros Borambil Victoria Park Pastoral Co Manilla 2346 “Moolarben” F. No. 4354 “Victoria Park” P: 02 6785 7345/7332 via Mudgee 2850 R.K. & K.L. Mathews Grenfell 2810 [email protected] P: 02 6373 4880 1955 Spring Drive P: 02 6343 6362 M: 0427 734 642 Collendina 2646 M: 0428 436 362 P: 02 6035 1777 [email protected] M: 0428 358 233 borambil.merinos @bigpond.com

111 NSW DIRECTORY Bunnerungie Poll Carleon Park Clear Creek Cottage Park Poll F. No. 714 F. No. 5078 F. No. 766 F. No. 2300 P.A. & C.G. Larwood D.V. & L.M. Southwell Roxburgh & Co Mark Pendergast Bunnerungie Station “Carleon” “Clear Creek” “Cottage Park” Wentworth 2648 55 Jerangle Road Young 2594 Cooma 2630 P: 03 5027 0220 Bredbo 2626 P: 02 6384 7317 P: 02 6453 5559 [email protected] P: 02 6454 4025 [email protected] M: 0400 017 412 [email protected] [email protected] Burragundy Cobana F. No. 1922 Caroonboon Poll F. No. 1468 Cressbrook W.M. Burgess F. No. 18 Cobana Pastoral Co Pty Ltd F. No. 2302 “Burragundy” Caroonboon Pty Ltd “Greenlake”, Monaro H’way Cressbrook Partnership Coolah 2843 “Caroonboon” Bombala 2632 437 Enmore Road P: 02 6377 4627 Wanganella 2710 P: 02 6458 5201 Armidale 2350 P: 03 5884 7509 M: 0418 585 274 P: 02 6775 1217 M: 0427 847 509 [email protected] M: 0427 751 217 [email protected] Carrabungla Coddington Poll www.cressbrookmerinos. C F. No. 4932 Poll F. No. 1385 com.au C Lake Poll Carrabungla Pastoral Co G.R. Coddington Croidon Poll F. No. 445 “Carrabungla” “Catombal”, Avondale Rd J.E. Pippin Laggan 2583 Yeoval 2868 F. No. 257 “C Lake Station” P: 02 4837 3228 P: 02 6367 7232 Croidon Pastoral Co Pty Ltd via Mildura 3500 M: 0418 660 364 M: 0428 638 129 RMB 64 P: 03 5029 6243 mussandkerry@ g.coddington@rosevillepark Hay 2711 [email protected] clearmail.com.au dohne.com.au P: 02 6993 1121 www.coddingtonpoll.com.au Cairnie Cassilis Park Conrayn F. No. 1810 F. No. 4578 D Cairnie Grazing Co H.C. & E.C. Armstrong F. No. 4560 Danesfort “Cairnie” “Wirroolga” P.A. & J.H. Lette F. No. 5082 Walcha 2354 Cassilis 2329 “Foxglen” Keary & Co Pty Ltd P: 02 6777 1335 P: 02 6376 1163 650 Rockwell Road “Bendemeer” M: 0429 771 335 M: 0412 926 525 Berridale 2628 Pejar via Crookwell 2583 [email protected] [email protected] P: 02 6456 3034 P: 02 4844 3125 www.cassilispark.com.au [email protected] M: 0419 992 834 Caledonia Centre Plus Cora Lynn F. No. 4239 Darriwell P.A. & J.M. Eastburn Poll F. No. 1250 F. No. 1289 – Poll F. No. 1420 F. No. 3655 – Poll F. No. 1417 “Springvale” Robert Mortimer R.J. Lindsay & Co R. Jones & Sons Baradine 2396 “Devondale” “Cora Lynn” “Darriwell” P: 02 6823 5169 Tullamore 2874 Peak Hill 2869 Trundle 2875 M: 0428 122 485 P: 02 6892 8259 P: 02 6869 9661/9653 P: 02 6869 9242 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] M: 0428 699 242 www.centreplus.com.au [email protected] Cara Corella Charmac F. No. 1236 F. No. 4891 Deeargee Poll J.E. Newnham & Co F. No. 4842 Corella Pastoral Company Poll F. No. 1339 “Cara” I., V.M., L.A., & S.M. Martin “Corella” Deeargee Pastoral Co Pty Ltd Delungra 2403 PO Box 5063 Bombala 2632 “Deeargee” P: 02 6723 6460 Lavington 2708 P: 02 6458 3085 1170 Gostwyck Road P: 02 6043 1328 [email protected] Uralla 2358 Carinya Poll P: 02 6026 2211 P: 02 6778 4659 leonmartin@ Cottage Creek Poll F. No. 1325 M: 0427 894 360 charmacmerinos.com F. No. 2949 [email protected] A. & H. Marchant www.charmacmerinos.com PO Box 203 Cottage Creek Pastoral Co Guyra 2365 “Cottage Creek” Delwick P: 02 6779 1408 Cooma 2630 F. No. 2519 M: 0412 719 983 P: 02 6453 5554 G.A. & J.A. Cox [email protected] M: 0438 521 913 992 Cowra Road [email protected] Boorowa 2586 M: 0427 731 368

112 Demondrille Edington Europambela F. No. 3994 F. No. 4812 F. No. 1588 Demondrille Partnership E Edington Partnership Europambela Grazing Co P/L PO Box 196 East Gowrie “Riverton” “Europambela” Harden 2587 F. No. 2785 Grafton Road Walcha 2354 P: 02 6386 3596 M.J. Cameron Armidale 2350 P: 02 6777 2856 M: 0427 202 339 PO Box 90 P: 02 6775 3788 [email protected] [email protected] Guyra 2365 M: 0427 753 788 P: 02 6779 2633 [email protected] Deniliquin Stud Park Poll East Roseville Edithvale F. No. 4167 G Poll F. No. 1037 F. No. 4768 East Roseville Merino Stud P/L Gdonya Poll D.R. & K.M. Overall E.M. & J.A. Jamieson PO Box 111 Poll F. No. 1310 “Emmaville” “Wattle Park” Brewarrina 2839 Ian Thomas Perry Weethalle 2669 Broughams Road P: 02 6885 3323 “Woorarra” P: 02 6975 6126 Finley 2713 M: 0429 853 323 1068 Avondale Road [email protected] P: 03 5883 1085 Manilla 2346 rcoddington@ceinternet. M: 0427 500 676 com.au P: 02 6782 5306 Doreen M: 0428 253 061 Egelabra F. No. 4261- Poll F. No. 3 East Roseville Poll Doreen Partnership F. No. 32 Poll F. No. 977 Genanegie PO Box 171 H.E. Kater & Son Pty Ltd East Roseville Merino Stud P/L F. No. 1503 Uralla 2358 PO Box 390 PO Box 111 Steve Swain Agribusiness P: 02 6775 3253 Warren 2824 Brewarrina 2839 17 Cherry Lane [email protected] P: 02 6847 4808 Robin Hill 2795 P: 02 6885 3323 M: 0428 478 696 M: 0429 853 323 P: 02 6869 1350 Dunbogan [email protected] P: 02 63318182 rcoddington@ceinternet. www.egelabra.com F. No. 4423 com.au M: 0427 691 350 J.W. & K.M. Roberts [email protected] Emoh Ruo “Dunbogan” East Yarrabin www.genanegie-merinos. Elong Elong 2831 F. No. 4114 com.au F. No. 5060 P: 02 6886 6147 J.F. & A.M. Doak Locker Lloyd Partnership [email protected] PO Box 39 Gidyeaong 32 Denison Street Bundarra 2359 Cooma 2630 F. No. 3864 Dundoos Park P: 02 6723 7343 Gidyea Partnership P: 02 6452 2221 [email protected] F. No. 4563 M: 0407 019 798 “Goonawarra” Athelington Pty Ltd Daysdale 2646 [email protected] Englefield North “Dundoos Park” www.eastyarrabinmerinos.com P: 02 6035 0255 Dog Trap Road Merinos goonawarrarobyn@ Yass 2582 Echo F. No. 5064 westnet.com.au P: 02 6227 5851 J.R. Cameron F. No. 1164 “Englefield North” A. Day & Son Gingie Dunedin Park Poll Walcha 2354 RMB 247 F. No. 1589 P: 02 6777 6536 Poll F. No. 1013 Yass 2582 Gingie Pastoral Co M: 0488 552 627 Dunedin Park Stud P: 02 4845 8221 “Gingie” “Dunedin Park” Walgett 2823 Essex Hill Wentworth 2648 Eden Moor P: 02 6828 8463 P: 03 5027 8240 (Stuart) F. No. 4743 [email protected] F. No. 2853 P: 03 5027 8202 (Warren) R.J. & G.J. Ward R.A. & A.A. Stevenson [email protected] “Essex Hill” “Eden Moor” Glanna Kentucky 2354 Tambar Springs 2381 F. No. 4003 – Poll F. No. 1019 Dunumbral P: 02 6778 7276 P: 02 6377 5254 Glanna Merino Stud F. No. 2836 [email protected] PO Box 237 www.essexhillmerinos.com.au The Downs (Gurley) Past. Co Eden Park Gulgong 2852 “Tulagi”, 616 Tulagi Road P: 02 6374 1124 F. No. 4172 Gurley 2398 Eudora Poll M: 0428 742 191 MW & JM Pilley P: 02 6756 2434 Poll F. No. 234 [email protected] “Ullamalla” P: 02 6754 6882 D. & A. Smith www.glanna.com.au Ullamalla Road “Box Cowal” Hill End 2850 Nyngan 2825 P: 02 6337 8245 P: 02 6832 1354/2600 [email protected] [email protected]

113 NSW DIRECTORY Glen Emu Poll Glenleigh Grathlyn Gunbar Poll F. No. 370 F. No. 1165 – Poll F. No. 982 F. No. 1885 F. No. 3705 Emu Park Nominees G. & N. Privett S.M. Rayner – Attn: A Rayner B.H. MacLachlan (NSW) P/L PO Box 734 “Glenleigh” “Grathlyn”, Hill End Road Gunbar Station Deniliquin 2710 1039 Coolalie Road Mudgee 2850 GPO Box 1172 P: 03 5881 2872 Yass 2582 P: 02 6373 8507 Adelaide SA 5001 M: 0429 304 095 P: 02 4845 8222 P: 02 6337 8177 P: 02 6967 6230 M: 0412 805 780 [email protected] P: 08 8223 1516 Glen Maye [email protected] dominicjennings@ F. No. 4119 Greenland bigpond.com M., I.S. & V.E. Price Glenoak F. No. 4188 – Poll F. No. 1109 “Glen Maye” F. No. 4526 J.E. & J.R. Alcock Gundarimbah 2070 Hill Road Schofield Grazing Co “Merambego” F. No. 5052 Sallys Flat via Mudgee 2850 “Glenoak” Bungarby 2630 G.H. Orr P: 02 6337 1676 Nundle 2340 P: 02 6453 6244/5577 “Wilga”, Back Trundle Rd P: 02 6769 3220 [email protected] Parkes 2870 Glenbower P: 02 6864 3259 F. No. 4075 Glenray Greenway M: 0428 643 282 G.T. Walker F. No. 4568 F. No. 4116 [email protected] 25 Bishops Avenue R.T. & B.J. Norman J.E. Harvey & Son Randwick 2031 “Glenbrook” “Greenway”, MSF 2008 Gunneramby P: 02 9665 2193 Illabo 2590 Armidale 2350 F. No. 1069 P: 02 6924 5441 P: 02 6775 1223/1301 D.A. & C.I. Rees Glenbrook M: 0427 202 823 [email protected] “Bellevue” F. No. 4341 [email protected] Ivanhoe 2878 C.D. & N.M. Pearson Grogansworth P: 02 6995 4859 “Glenbrook” Glenwood F. No. 4038 M: 0427 953 581 5 Ashtree Drive F. No. 1156 Kim Henderson [email protected] Armidale 2350 Glenwood Pty Ltd “Grogansworth” P: 02 6771 4617 “Glenwood” Bowning 2582 Gunyah M: 0407 402 526 Twelve Mile Rd P: 02 6227 6085 F. No. 1610 [email protected] Wellington 2820 M: 0429 839 889 R.J. Hain P: 02 6845 3665 [email protected] “Gunyah” Glenburnie M: 0447 453 665 www.grogansworth.com.au Cooma 2630 F. No. 5059 [email protected] P: 02 6452 6445 Glenburnie Partnership www.glenwoodmerinos.com.au Gulgo Poll M: 0403 483 702 “Mt Agnes” Poll F. No. 100 [email protected] Walcha 2354 Goolgumbla R.J.T. & F.T. Gavel P: 02 6777 3978/3826 F. No. 42 PO Box 4 [email protected] The Rollinson Family Condobolin 2877 Goolgumbla P: 02 6895 2795 H Glenelg c/- “Concordia” M: 0428 952 156 Haddon Rig F. No. 4344 Mysia, Vic 3518 F. No. 48 – Poll F. No. 1409 R.A. & J.M. Longmire Pty Ltd P: 03 5886 7124 Gullendah Haddon Rig Pty Ltd “Glenelg” F. No. 3048 “Haddon Rig” Narrandera 2700 GRASS Merinos Gullendah Pastoral Co Pty Ltd Warren 2824 P: 02 6959 8212 F. No. 3884 “Gullendah” P: 02 6847 4405/3411 M: 0428 598 212 GRASS Merinos Pty Ltd Baldry 2867 [email protected] [email protected] PO Box 216 P: 02 6367 9235 www.haddonrig.com.au Nambucca Heads 2448 M: 0427 679 235 Glenhaven Park M: 0428 825 721 [email protected] Havilah North F. No. 2814 [email protected] F. No. 3934 G.R. & E.M. Hines www.grassmerino.com.au GullenGamble A.J. & C.J. White Pty Ltd “Glenhaven” F. No. 4865 – Poll F. No. 1414 “Welshville”, Stony Creek Rd 1333 Milvale-Stockinbingal Rd Grassy Creek GullenGamble Pastoral Trust Mudgee 2850 Milvale 2594 F. No. 5030 – Poll F. No. 1366 “GullenGamble” P: 02 6373 5265 P: 02 6384 7349 (Mgr) Grassy Creek Pastoral Yeoval 2868 M: 0428 634 809 P: 02 6384 7318 “Dryburgh” P: 02 6846 4252/4422 [email protected] [email protected] Reids Flat 2586 [email protected] P: 02 6345 2201 www.gullengamblemerinos. M: 0428 272 889 com.au [email protected]

114 Hawksley Park Hinesville Johnson Park Kelvin Vale F. No. 5031 F. No. 1341 F. No. 5076 F. No. 4462 I.G. & W. Lockwood Hinesville Merino Stud Johnson Park Merino Stud C. Munsie & Sons PO Box 39 PO Box 26 PO Box 710 PO Box 122 Deepwater 2371 Delegate 2633 Yass 2582 Uralla 2358 P: 02 6734 5353 P: 02 6458 8129/8256 P: 02 6226 5769 P: 02 6778 4651/4523 M: 0438 345 360 [email protected] M: 0400 709 489 maryannemunsie@ [email protected] johnsonparkmerinos@ bigpond.com Homesville hotmail.com Hazeldean F. No. 3630 Keri Keri F. No. 383 M.D. Croker F. No. 2544 Hazeldean Pty Ltd “Croma” Dowling Keri Keri Past Co P/L “Hazeldean” Fullerton 2583 K “Keri Keri” Cooma 2630 P: 02 4834 2171 Kalanga Poll Moulamein 2733 P: 02 6453 5555 Poll F. No. 72 P: 03 5034 0591 M: 0417 676 561 Homewood W.A. & M.B. Cameron M: 0429 340 581 [email protected] F. No. 531 PO Box 751 [email protected] www.hazeldean.com.au M.L. Armour & Co Glen Innes 2370 “Homewood” P: 02 6733 6888 Kerin Poll Hillandale 1191 Jerrawa Road cameronlivestock@ Poll F. No. 1413 F. No. 4992 Dalton 2581 bigpond.com Kerin Agriculture C.A. & J.A. Brien P: 02 4845 6376 PO Box 16 “Hillandale” Kameruka Yeoval 2868 Wellington 2820 F. No. 5067 P: 02 6846 4070 P: 02 6845 1237 Giles W. Pritchard-Gordon M: 0427 464 070 M: 0400 621 855 I (Aust) Pty Ltd [email protected] Illawarra “Kameruka” www.kerinpoll.com.au Hillcreston F. No. 2345 – Poll F. No. 1441 Bega 2550 F. No. 1263 Ken Howard & Co P: 02 6493 2205 Kia-Warra Hillcreston & Co “Doona” M: 0418 665 869 F. No. 2850 “Hillcreston” Yerong Creek 2642 [email protected] Kia-Warra Pastoral Co Bigga 2583 P: 02 6920 6123 “Kia-Warra” P: 02 4835 2229/2255 Karoola Downs Poll Weethalle 2669 [email protected] Inglewood Estate Poll F. No. 975 P: 02 6975 6155 www.hillcreston.com.au F. No. 2871 J.R. Derrick & Son “Karoola Station” Kiah Hillcreston Heights Inglewood Estate “Inglewood” via Adelong 2729 F. No. 1845 F. No. 4951 Bombala 2632 P: 02 6944 7584 J.M. & C. Armstrong B. & S. Picker & Co P: 02 6458 3330 M: 0408 694 209 PO Box 456 “The Springs” M: 0417 678 215 [email protected] Parkes 2870 Bigga 2583 [email protected] P: 02 6866 2148 P: 02 4835 2377 Karori M: 0427 662 170 M: 0427 690 144 F. No. 4773 [email protected] [email protected] Karori Pastoral Co Pty Ltd “Karori” Kialami Hillcreston Park J Poll F. No. 1474 Jardine Walcha 2354 F. No. 4584 – Poll F. No. 1161 P: 02 6777 9189 Kialami Pastoral Co. D.D., M.M., T. & J.H. Picker F. No. 4621 M: 0467 779 189 “Kialami”, 49 Warrane Road “Hillcreston Park” Gregory R. Hill (NSW) Pty Ltd [email protected] Armidale 2350 Bigga 2583 “The Meadows”, Collector Rd www.karori.com.au P: 02 6775 1168 P: 02 4835 2220 Gunning 2581 M: 0427 751 169 M: 0409 172 976 P: 02 4845 1169 Karowara [email protected] [email protected] M: 0418 641 938 Plains Poll www.hillcrestonpark.com.au [email protected] Poll F. No. 1338 Kilburnie Downs Kim Watts F. No. 2749 Jilliby Hilltop “Hempstead”, Noakes Rd R.A. & M.A. Wise F. No. 4483 F. No. 4009 Bedgerebong 2871 “Kilburnie” A.S. & A.M. Mort R.E., D.V. & R.E. Maguire P: 0429 952 499 The Rock 2655 “Tallawangra” “Jilliby” P: 02 6857 1031 a.h. P: 02 6928 5507 Yarrabin Road Cooma 2630 [email protected] M: 0427 285 507 Mudgee 2850 P: 02 6452 1745 [email protected] P: 02 6373 3514 [email protected]

115 NSW DIRECTORY Kilnyana Kurrajong Park Ledgerton Lucas Grove F. No. 51 F. No. 1770 – Poll F. No. 1160 F. No. 4154 F. No. 2274 Savernake Pastoral Co R.E. & G.C. Kent Ledgerton (Yass) Pty Ltd Mavis F. Spicer Savernake Station “Kurrajong Park” “Ledgerton”, 6024 Abercrombie Road Savernake 2646 Delungra 2403 1521 Mountain Creek Rd Taralga 2580 P: 03 5886 7149 P: 02 6729 1340 Yass 2582 P: 02 4843 3052 M: 0447 20 550 M: 0428 101 787 P: 02 6227 5432 [email protected] [email protected] Lyndon Kilphysic F. No. 4994 F. No. 2645 Lemani B.M. & S.L. Gordon Kilphysic Pastoral Co L F. No. 4845 “West Lynne” “Kilphysic” Lachlan Merinos S.K. Symons Guyra 2365 Carroll 2340 F. No. 5022 – Poll F. No. 1415 “Taviton” P: 02 6779 1506 P: 02 6743 1701 Lachlan Merinos 362 Bukkulla Road M: 0427 755 723 [email protected] “Meadow Bank” Ashford 2361 [email protected] Warroo Bridge Road P: 02 6725 4279 Kirkton Forbes 2871 M: 0427 236 225 Lynford Poll F. No. 4205 P: 02 6857 2118 [email protected] Poll F. No. 1419 J.B. Kelman M: 0428 572 117 S.M. Rayner & Co 19a Greville St [email protected] Lochness “Grathlyn”, Hill End Road Chatswood 2067 www.lachlanmerinos.com.au F. No. 1110 Mudgee 2850 P: 02 9419 5773 Lochness Pty Ltd P: 02 6373 8677/8518 P: 02 6337 0358 (Mgr) Lands End Poll “Corona” [email protected] [email protected] Poll F. No. 1397 Crookwell 2583 www.kirktonstud.com L.B. & D.H. Johnstone P: 02 4834 2134 Lynoch “Amaroo”, Gulf Road F. No. 1718 Kirob Emmaville 2371 Lone Pine Lynoch Pty Ltd F. No. 5008 P: 02 6734 7207 F. No. 3852 PO Box 83 K.D. & R.A. Cartwright [email protected] Vatua Partnership Armidale 2350 “Thalaba Downs” PO Box 382 P: 02 6771 2812 Laggan 2583 Langdene Coonamble 2829 M: 0428 712 812 P: 02 4837 3210/3038 F. No. 3863 P: 02 6823 5820 M: 0427 373 211 Langdene Pastoral Co M: 0429 25 820 [email protected] “Langdene”, 1127 Dubbo Rd [email protected] www.stft.com.au Dunedoo 2844 M P: 02 6375 1972 (Garry) Loongana Poll Macarthur Park Koonwarra P: 02 6375 1340 Poll F. No. 19 F. No. 4657 – Poll F. No. 1200 F. No. 1267 [email protected] Macarthur Pastoral Co K.A. & Y.A. Williams Koonwarra Merino Stud P’ship www.langdene.com.au (Cannanbri) Pty Ltd 276 Riverside Road PO Box 29 “Cannanbri” Mt Collins 2794 Boorowa 2586 Lara Plains Walcha 2354 P: 02 6345 4229 P: 02 6385 3396 F. No. 748 P: 02 6777 6531 P: 0427 272 238 (Jono) G. & N. Ham M: 0429 776 554 Main Range merino@koonwarrastud. [email protected] PO Box 118 F. No. 5062 com.au Jerilderie 2716 www.koonwarrastud.com.au Lorelmo Poll G.W., M.T. & S.G. Tozer P: 03 5886 1440 PO Box 1059 M: 0429 403 076 Poll F. No. 430 Kulki Cooma 2630 [email protected] Lorelmo Pastoral Co P: 02 6456 4405 F. No. 965 “Topdale” P: 02 6452 5770 R.J. Capel Laraben Poll Walcha 2354 [email protected] “Kulki” Poll F. No. 1251 P: 6769 2235 Inverell 2360 M., J. & H. Swords M: 0427 692 235 Maister’s Swamp P: 02 6725 6446 “The Lagoons” [email protected] M: 0427 523 179 www.lorelmo.com.au F. No. 4497 – Poll F. No. 1284 Ulan 2850 D.J. & C Watson P: 02 6373 4635 Kullingrah Lowanna “Dorlie”, 86 Dorlie Land Kentucky 2354 F. No. 3757 Laurel Park F. No. 3008 P: 02 6778 7244 Kullingrah Pastoral Co F. No. 3542 – Poll F. No. 7 R.G. & A.M. Kingston M: 0427 831 799 “Sunnyridge” W.J. & H.J. Buttenshaw “The Wilgars” [email protected] Frogmore via Boorowa 2586 “Laurel Park” Forbes 2871 www.maistersswampmerinos P: 02 6385 6225 West Wyalong 2671 P: 02 6856 1108 .com.au [email protected] P: 02 6972 5286

116 Manawa Merryanbone Miramoona Mumblebone F. No. 3826 F. No. 687 – Poll F. No. 611 F. No. 3471 F. No. 63 L.N. Clarke John R. McLaughlin Miramoona Pastoral Co Wuuluman Pty Ltd “Spring Creek” Merryanbone Station “Miramoona” “Marapana” Berridale 2628 Warren 2824 Walcha 2354 456 Wuuluman Road P: 02 6456 3211 P: 02 6833 9966 P: 02 6777 2885 Wellington 2820 [email protected] M: 0429 772 885 P: 02 6845 3620 Maroombah [email protected] M: 0458 453 608 F. No. 4998 Merryanbone North www.miramoona.com [email protected] P.J. Colley Poll www.mumblebone.com.au 95 Lindsay Street Poll F. No. 1130 Mirani Hargraves 2850 J.A. McLaughlin Partnership F. No. 732 – Poll F. No. 421 Mungadal P: 02 6373 8441 “Merryanbone North” Mirani Pty Ltd F. No. 15 [email protected] Warren 2824 “Mirani” Paraway Pastoral Co P/L P: 02 6833 9993 Walcha 2354 “Mungadal” Maybrook [email protected] P: 02 6777 1360 Hay 2711 F. No. 4612 M: 0412 402 576 P: 02 6993 1704 (Mgr) C.M. Collits Pty Ltd Merryshiels [email protected] P: 02 8232 6220 “Maybrook” F. No. 4475 www.mirani.org mungadal@ 962 Peak Hill Road L. & R.E. Fletcher parawaypastoral.com Narromine 2821 “Coomooloo” Moorna P: 02 6889 6525 Walcha 2354 F. No. 4415 Myack P: 02 9651 7444 P: 02 6777 8148 A.J. Peadon F. No. 1291 [email protected] [email protected] PO Box 142 G. C. Woodhouse Bombala 2632 “Marianella”, Mates Gully Rd Meadow View Poll Merryville P: 02 6458 3003 Tarcutta 2652 Poll F. No. 1399 Merryville-Murgha P: 02 6928 7156 Moray Meadow View Stud (Henty) F. Nos. 56/57 – Poll F. No. 223 “Meadow View” Merryville Stud F. No. 4060 Henty 2658 PO Box 103 J.H. & J.F. Stewart P: 02 6929 3701 Boorowa 2586 “Moray” N M: 0428 293 701 P: 02 6385 3333 Guyra 2365 Nanima [email protected] M: 0427 008 843 P: 02 6779 4215 F. No. 4993 [email protected] M: 0401 782 655 C.K. & F.A. Darmody Merima [email protected] “Nanima” F. No. 2428 Middle View 951 Murrumbateman Rd Mount Nanima T.C. Bruce F. No. 3725 – Poll F. No. 1362 Murrumbateman 2582 “Koorong” B & M Walters F. No. 4861 P: 02 6227 5545 RMB Delegate Road “Merani Park” W.R. & J.M. Fischer M: 0413 622 954 Bombala 2632 Dalgety 2628 “Mount Nanima” francesdarmody@harboursat. P: 02 6458 7120 P: 02 6456 6744 2 Bush’s Lane com.au [email protected] M: 0427 566 744 Murrumbateman 2582 bobandmikala@ P: 02 6227 5638 Nelungaloo Merrignee harboursat.com.au F. No. 1813 F. No. 4417 – Poll F. No. 1100 www.middleview.com.au Mullengudgery Pratley Partnership C.T. Merriman & Son F. No. 232 – Poll F. No. 9 “Oakbrook”, 1284 Peel Rd PO Box 29 Milburn Creek Mullengudgery Pty Ltd Bathurst 2795 Boorowa 2586 F. No. 4986 “Mullengudgery” P: 02 6337 6548 P: 02 6385 3396 M.R. Johnston Nyngan 2825 [email protected] M: 0427 289 018 “Milburn Creek” P: 02 6833 9953 [email protected] Pine Mount Rd M: 0428 339 953 Nerstane www.merrignee.com.au Woodstock 2793 F. No. 3298 – Poll F. No. 1433 P: 02 6345 1832 Mulwala Nerstane Pastoral Co Merrimont [email protected] F. No. 3169 “Nerstane” F. No. 4995 Savernake Park Pastoral Co Woolbrook 2354 Steven Dawe Milong Savernake Station P: 02 6777 5881 “Valley View” F. No. 59 Savernake 2646 M: 0429 772 778 Stock Route Road Olde Milong Pty Ltd P: 03 5886 7149 [email protected] Monteagle 2594 “Olde Milong”, Temora Rd M: 0428 867 144 www.nerstane.com.au P: 02 6383 6289 Young 2594 [email protected] P: 02 6384 7324 M: 0439 182 177 [email protected]

117 NSW DIRECTORY Netherton Old Cobran Poll Pastora Pomanara F. No. 4587 Old Cobran No 2 F. No. 4418 - Poll F. No. 1090 F. No. 4057 D.V. & D.H. Lisle Poll T. & R. Westblade G.J. & R.A. Rayner “Netherton” Poll F. No. 32 – Poll F. No. 644 “Brookong” “Pomanara” Walcha 2354 Old Cobran Pastoral Pty Ltd Lockhart 2656 2548 Hill End Rd P: 02 6777 3944 554 Huon Creek Road P: 02 6920 5423 Sally’s Flat via Mudgee 2850 M: 0428 773 840 Wodonga, Vic 3691 P: 02 6920 5122 (Poll) P: 02 6337 8223 [email protected] P: 02 6024 7761 [email protected] M: 0428 288 075 M: 0428 510 287 [email protected] Niela [email protected] Pegela F. No. 5020 F. No. 5080 Pooginook A.D. & D.T. McGaw One Oak Pegela Pastoral Company F. No. 788 3 Monastery Drive One Oak No 2 PO Box 10 Paraway Pastoral Co. Ltd Goulburn 2580 F. No. 2251- F. No. 3855 Oberon 2787 Pooginook Merino Stud P: 02 4821 6947 One Oak Pty Ltd P: 02 6336 3033 Jerilderie 2716 M: 0427 215 419 PO Box 84 M: 0448 805 978 P: 02 6954 6145 (Mgr) [email protected] Jerilderie 2716 EShepard@pegelapastoral. M: 0428 953 017 P: 03 5886 1269 com.au pooginook@ Nimala M: 0428 442 930 parawaypastoral.com F. No. 5035 [email protected] Pejar www.pooginook.com G. & S. Wright www.oneoakmerinos.com.au F. No. 4731 PO Box 72 D.O., I.J. & J.J. Blewitt Culcairn 2660 One Oak Poll “Wollondilly” P: 02 6029 7197 Poll F. No. 408 2611 Crookwell Road Q M: 0429 792 990 A.R. & N.L. Wells Goulburn 2580 Quamby Park Poll [email protected] “One Oak Poll”, Liddle Lane P: 02 4848 1221/1203 Poll F. No. 999 Jerilderie 2716 M: 0428 481 203 L.B. Hawkins North Yathong P: 03 5886 7117 [email protected] “Old Woolerina” F. No. 4915 M: 0428 867 117 Davirton Road F.J., S. & A.D. Brunt oneoakpoll@harboursat. Pemcaw Dirranbandi, Qld 4486 “North Yathong” com.au F. No. 776 – Poll F. No. 1377 P: 07 4625 0876 Jerilderie 2716 Pemcaw Merino Stud M: 0458 250 876 P: 03 5886 1219 Otterbourne “Pemcaw” F. No. 1767 – Poll F. No. 1269 Dunedoo 2844 Queenlee Otterbourne Pastoral Co P: 02 6375 8263 F. No. 2471 “Otterbourne”, Wargeila Rd M: 0427 104 961 T., B. & P. Carlon O Yass 2582 [email protected] “Queenlee” Oak Hills P: 02 6227 3210/3243 www.pemcaw.com.au Uralla 2358 [email protected] P: 02 6778 7437 F. No. 3806 Petali Poll D.L. & M.I. Croake [email protected] “Oak Hills” Overland Poll F. No. 1279 1329 Pyramul Road Petali Pastoral Co F. No. 5074 “Petali” Pyramul 2850 L., J., A. & A. Magill P: 02 6373 8295 Walcha 2354 “Overland” P: 02 6777 2124 R M: 0427 003 576 797 Leafy Tank Road Raby [email protected] M: 0413 580 040 Bogan Gate 2876 [email protected] F. No. 197 P: 02 6864 1115 www.petali.com.au Hassad Australia Oakbrook P: 02 6863 4948 “Raby”, RMB 201 F. No. 852 [email protected] Pine Hill Warren 2824 Pratley Partnership P: 02 6847 4888 (Mgr) “Oakbrook”, 1284 Peel Rd F. No. 2309 D.W. & E. Ridley M: 0418 271 530 Bathurst 2795 [email protected] P: 02 6337 6548 “Pine Hill” P Forbes 2871 [email protected] Parkdale P: 02 6856 3169 Ravecchia Poll F. No. 4638 M: 0416 933 139 Poll F. No. 1384 D.W. & P.E. Mudford [email protected] B.M. Ostini “Parkdale”, MS4 Collie Rd 1155 Forest Road Dubbo 2830 Orange 2800 P: 02 6887 6266 P: 02 6361 3198 M: 0428 876 266 M: 0408 419 249 [email protected] [email protected] www.parkdalesrs.net.au

118 Revenue Park Poll Roseville Park Snow Vale Stoney View Poll F. No. 906 F. No. 4166 – Poll F. No. 1288 Poll F. No. 3829 F. No. 4559 Revenue Park Pty Ltd Roseville Park Merino Stud M.A. & K.L. Hedger A.W. & J.M. Ticehurst “Revenue Park” “Glenwood” 18 Mary Street “Rockleigh” Goodnight 2736 39R Dilladerry Rd Berridale 2628 Bookham 2582 P: 03 5030 5531 Dubbo 2830 P: 02 6456 3856 P: 02 6227 7276 M: 0429 479 938 P: 02 6887 7286 M: 0429 859 142 M: 0438 277 273 [email protected] M: 0408 638 129 [email protected] [email protected] Suttor Richmond www.rosevilleparkmerinos. Snowy Plain F. No. 4126 F. No. 5021 com.au F. No. 3829 S.A. Suttor-Roydhouse T.W.G. & S.C. Ryan M.A. & K.L. Hedger “Echo” “Richmond” Rossmore 18 Mary Street Triamble via Mudgee 2850 Quandialla 2721 F. No. 35 Berridale 2628 P: 02 6373 8597 P: 02 6347 1166 Rossmore Agriculture P: 02 6456 3856/8865 M: 0417 452 205 M: 0437 153 765 “Rossmore” M: 0429 859 142 [email protected] [email protected] Burren Junction 2386 [email protected] www.suttorstud.com P: 02 6796 1404 Rockdale M: 0428 961 375 Somerset Syl-Ken F. No. 3554 [email protected] F. No. 484 F. No. 807 Rockdale Grazing Co D.B. Milthorpe & Son K.R. Maloney “Rockdale” Round Plain 103 Coreen St RMB 449 Abercrombie Rd Canowindra 2804 F. No. 4448 Jerilderie 2716 Mt Defiance P: 02 6344 1153 G.C. & J.M. Crowe P: 03 5886 1381/1315 via Taralga 2580 M: 0428 549 377 “Cross Roads” P: 02 4843 3059 [email protected] Berridale 2628 South Greenbank P: 02 6456 8884 F. No. 541 Rocklyn South Greenbank Past. Co F. No. 1039 Royalla “South Greenbank” T Rocklyn Pty Ltd F. No. 3888 Young 2594 Tallawong “Elon”, Cowra Road E.D. McDonald & Son P: 02 6383 3553/3554 F. No. 5011 – Poll F. No. 1334 Grenfell 2810 “Glenroy” Tallawong Pastoral Co P: 02 6343 6331 Wallendbeen 2588 St Hilary “Murrumville”, Dog Trap Rd [email protected] P: 02 6943 2536 F. No. 5084 Yass 2582 Leeholme Pastoral Co P: 02 6227 5701 Rogara Poll Ruby Hills “St Hilary”, 3824 Ashford Rd M: 0427 275 701 Poll F. No. 1317 F. No. 4120 Bukkulla 2360 Rogara Station A. & A.H. Burgess P’Ship P: 02 6725 5677 Tambua Poll 116 Dewsbury’s Lane PO Box 134 M: 0459 255 677 Poll F. No. 564 Quialigo via Goulburn 2580 Walcha 2354 [email protected] Tambua Pastoral Co P: 02 4844 7066 P: 02 6777 2102 “Tambua Station” [email protected] Stanley Vale Cobar 2835 Ronjabar www.rubyhills.com.au F. No. 4595 P: 02 6837 3623/3622 F. No. 4430 Stanley Vale Partnership [email protected] N.E. & J.L. Doherty PO Box 113 “Pine View” Uralla 2358 Tara Park Goolma 2852 S P: 02 6778 4598 F. No. 3718 P: 02 6374 0235 Shalimar Park M: 0412 704 598 Tara Park Merino Stud M: 0429 648 077 F. No. 2425 – Poll F. No. 1278 [email protected] 353 Brial Road [email protected] Shalimar Park Merino Stud Boorowa 2586 “Shalimar”, 619 Bergen Rd Stillbrook Poll P: 02 6385 3288/3615 Rose Hill Walcha 2354 Poll F. No. 1095 [email protected] F. No. 4425 P: 02 6778 7339/7326 J., S. & T. Bensley www.tarapark.com.au J.D. Manwaring [email protected] “Stillbrook”, Kialla Road “Rose-Hill”, RMB 203 Crookwell 2583 Taradean Cootamundra 2590 P: 02 4832 1204 Skyline F. No. 4291 P: 02 6386 6286 M: 0408 659 914 L.A. & M.C. Weston F. No. 4713 [email protected] I.J. & B.R. Blyton “Wyuna” “Glenlee” Nimmitabel 2631 Nimmitabel 2631 P: 02 6454 6411 P: 02 6454 6246 [email protected] [email protected]

119 NSW DIRECTORY Tarrangower Towalba Wantana F. No. 4107 F. No. 3836 – Poll F. No. 1403 F. No. 3801 D.G. & A.S. Waters Towalba Pastoral Co V W.G. Darmody “Eastview” “Towalba” Valdemar Poll Frogmore Road 667 Long Point Road Peak Hill 2869 Poll F. No. 1347 Boorowa 2586 Hillgrove 2350 P: 02 6869 1724 (Garry) Duncan Clowes P: 02 6385 3570 P: 02 6778 1165 M: 0401 461 829 PO Box 42 [email protected] M: 0458 781 165 P: 02 6869 1294 (Warick) Millthorpe 2798 [email protected] M: 0427 153 663 P: 02 6366 3213 Warrananga M: 0428 433 639 [email protected] F. No. 2028 [email protected] Thalabah www.towalbamerinostud. Warrananga Proprietors F. No. 4803 com.au “Warrananga Station” Thalaba (Laggan) Past. Co Valley Vista Poll Wentworth 2648 “Thalaba” Trigger Vale Poll F. No. 1114 P: 03 5027 3713 1331 Peelwood Rd Poll F. No. 1487 J.D. & S.C. Pitson gregorypollard@bigpond. Laggan 2583 A.J. & A.G. Bouffler “Thugga” com.au P: 02 4837 3243 “Valera” Culcairn 2660 M: 0418 280 063 Lockhart 2656 P: 02 6036 5232 Waverley M: 0427 365 232 [email protected] P: 02 6920 7656 F. No. 4458 M: 0427 207 656 A.P. Grills The Lagoons info@triggervalesheepstuds. “Waverley” F. No. 790 com.au Guyra 2365 E.A.H. Middleton & Co W P: 02 6775 8353 “The Lagoons” Trynow Walgrove M: 0427 758 357 Binalong 2584 F. No. 3740 F. No. 3983 [email protected] P: 02 6227 4347 J.P. Honeysett T.H. Davies & Co M: 0417 690 617 “Rockdale” “Walgrove” Waverley Downs [email protected] Spicers Creek 2820 Hay 2711 F. No. 4071 – Poll F. No. 1174 P: 02 6846 6331 P: 02 6993 2135 Sean & Judith Ballinger The Yanko “Lecoin” F. No. 4694 Turon Hill Walwa Delungra 2403 I.E. Cameron & Co F. No. 4345 F. No. 3887 P: 02 6724 8386 “The Yanko” B.E. & K.C. Cole A.J. & J.L. McCormack [email protected] Jerilderie 2716 “Turon Hill” “Walwa”, Gurrundah Rd P: 02 6956 1142 Sofala 2795 Gunning 2581 Weealla M: 0427 561 142 P: 02 6337 7752 P: 02 4844 3112/3161 F. No. 4660 – Poll F. No. 438 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] D.K. & K.A. McBurnie & Sons “Weealla” Tipperlinne Wandean Poll Balladoran 2831 F. No. 4585 Poll F. No. 1372 P: 02 6888 1101 B.S. & A.M. Edwards U Riverina Wool P: 02 6887 9266 “Lochiel”, PO Box 54 Ullamalla PO Box 219 [email protected] Uralla 2358 F. No. 4102 Moama 2731 www.weealla.com.au P: 02 6778 4327 G.D. & D.C. Dray P: 03 5482 2965 M: 0427 784 327 76 Byng St M: 0417 599 686 Wendouree [email protected] Orange 2800 [email protected] F. No. 4165 P: 02 6361 7136 J.P. & G.A. Whitechurch & Son Tombong P: 02 6337 8297 Wanganella Bimbi Road F. No. 2056 M: 0429 946 852 F. No. 83 Grenfell 2810 Tombong Estate Pty Ltd [email protected] F.S. Falkiner & Sons Pty Ltd P: 02 6347 1272 Mr D. J. Cupit “Boonoke” 1/38 Belmont Rd Uroley Poll Deniliquin 2710 West Lynne Mosman 2088 P: 03 5884 6604 F. No. 4558 P: 02 6458 8029 Poll F. No. 1233 M: 0429 846 602 R.M. Gordon P: 02 9969 8116 S.M. & J.A. Kayess “Uroley Park” [email protected] “West Lynne” Sturt Highway www.fsfalkiner.com.au Guyra 2365 Tootha Narrandera 2700 P: 02 6775 5736 F. No. 3540 P: 02 6959 3001 B., D. & T.F. O’Keeffe [email protected] “Tootha” Walgett 2832 P: 02 6828 9321/8474 [email protected]

120 West Plains Poll Wilson’s Creek Woodpark Poll F. No. 1236 F. No. 2857 Woodpark No 2 Poll Hinesville Merino Stud Wilson’s Creek Pastoral Co Y F. No. 62 – Poll F. No. 1329 Yalgoo PO Box 26 “Wilson’s Creek” Woodpark Pastoral Co P/L F. No. 1552 Delegate 2633 839 Kingstown Road “Woodpark” Yalgoo Partnership P: 02 6458 8129/8256 Uralla 2358 Jerilderie 2716 PO Box 141 [email protected] P: 02 6778 4091 P: 03 5886 7149 Walcha 2354 M: 0407 936 975 P: 03 5886 7114 (No 2 Poll) P: 02 6777 2525 West Vale [email protected] M: 0427 867 135 yalgoopartnership@bigpond. F. No. 1587 com L.R. & J.E. Blanch Winona Woodpark Poll www.yalgoo.org “Westvale” Winona No 2 Poll F. No. 1151 334 Westvale Road F. No. 1500 – F. No. 3664 C. & S. Huggins Wollun 2354 C.T. Seis “Eurolie” Yarong P: 02 6778 7321 “Winona”, Merotherie Road Hay 2711 F. No. 3626 M: 0428 431 065 Gulgong 2852 P: 02 6993 4616 K.L. & M.P. Williams [email protected] P: 02 6375 9256 [email protected] “Yarong” [email protected] www.woodparkmerino.com.au Forbes 2871 Westray www.winona.net.au P: 02 6853 1121/2226 F. No. 3007 Woodside R.O. Cannon & L.M. Tremain Winrock F. No. 749 Yarrawonga “Westray” F. No. 1364 Woodside Grazing Co F. No. 3534 – Poll F. No. 1356 Peak Hill 2869 C.M. Armour Pty Ltd “Warrie” D.T., S. & E. Phillips P: 02 6869 1473 “Lyndfield”, Oolong Road Gulargambone 2828 Cunningham Plains M: 0418 603 016 Gunning 2581 P: 02 6825 1248 PO Box 147 [email protected] P: 02 4845 8215 [email protected] Harden 2587 [email protected] P: 02 6386 3128 Whyworry Park Woolaroo M: 0427 863 128 yarrawongamerino@bigpond. F. No. 3962 Winyar F. No. 4059 com D.J. Carter F. No. 3627 – Poll F. No. 1328 P.T. & K.C. Walker “Whyworry Park” A.L. & S.M. Dawson PO Box 96 Uralla 2358 “Ermington” Yass 2582 Yooroobla P: 02 6778 4147 Belubula Way P: 02 6226 1104 F. No. 4709 [email protected] Canowindra 2804 M: 0427 499 616 Yooroobla Pastoral Co www.whyworry.com.au P: 02 6344 1653 [email protected] Jerilderie 2716 M: 0427 441 653 www.woolaroo.com.au P: 03 5886 1652 Willandra [email protected] [email protected] F. No. 87 – Poll F. No. 610 Woollahra Willandra Merino Stud Wirrilla F. No. 5077 Yoorooga “Willandra” F. No. 4006 Woollahra Merino Stud F. No. 3713 477 North Coree Road J.R. & D.P. Winter PO Box 333 J.E. & L.A. Holley Jerilderie 2716 PO Box 434 Yass 2582 “Yoorooga”, PO Box 119 P: 03 5886 1223 Mudgee 2850 P: 02 6226 3447 Tenterfield 2372 M: 0428 861 605 P: 02 6373 8206 [email protected] P: 02 6736 1323 [email protected] [email protected] Woodburn Wyuna Willow Dale F. No. 2973 F. No. 2919 F. No. 1106 P.J. Southwell A.D. & M.G. Beveridge D.J. Holgate & Sons “Fairview” “Warragong” “Willow Dale”, RMB 215 713 Burrinjuck Road Armatree via Gilgandra 2827 Dalton 2581 Bookham 2582 P: 02 6848 5838 P: 02 4845 6268 P: 02 6227 7207 M: 0429 485 818 [email protected] Willurah Woodfield Poll F. No. 1094 Poll F. No. 1361 John Lamb Pastoral Co P/L B. & L. Stephenson “Willurah” PO Box 1584 Conargo 2710 Armidale 2350 P: 03 5884 7500 P: 02 6775 3220 [email protected] M: 0417 297 517 bruce.stephenson6@bigpond. com

121 NSW Contact Index CONTACT STUD CONTACT STUD Alcock John & Jenny GREENLAND + POLL Cox Malcolm BOCOBLE + POLL Armour Ken & Stephen WINROCK Cox John & Greg DELWICK Armstrong Cam & James CASSILIS PARK Cox Gordon, Colleen, Garry LANGDENE Armstrong Craig & June KIAH Croake Daryl & Irene OAK HILLS Armstrong Lou & Henry PEMCAW + POLL Croker Matthew HOMESVILLE Bahr Simon MEADOW VIEW POLL Crowe Gordon ROUND PLAIN Baldwin Ross, Rick & Jill BUNDILLA + POLL Cupit Dennis & Barbara TOMBONG Ballinger Sean & Judith WAVERLEY DOWNS + POLL Darmody Chris & Fran NANIMA Barnet Kim & Rhonda MIRAMOONA Darmody Bill, Sharee & Jim WANTANA Barron Ray, James & Julie ADINA + POLL Davies David WALGROVE Bazeley Mark WANDEAN POLL Davis Patrick & Andrew DEMONDRILLE Belfield Charles KIALAMI Dawe Steve MERRIMONT Bell Ashley RABY Dawson Allan & Susan WINYAR + POLL Bensley John, Sandra & Troy STILLBROOK POLL Day Malcolm ECHO Beveridge Angus & Melinda WYUNA Derrick James & Sheryl KAROOLA DOWNS POLL Blanch Leo & Judy WEST VALE Dickson Jim & Debbie CAROONBOON Blaxland Mark BLAXLAND POLL Diprose Ralph ROCKLYN Blewitt Arthur BRIARLEA Doak Bill BOX MOOR Blomfield Rob & Katrina KARORI Doak Annette & John EMOH RUO Blyth Cheryl BLYTH Doherty Neil & Joanne RONJABAR Blyton Ian & Barbara SKYLINE Dowling Andrew & Tarsh KERI KERI Bouffler ANdrew & Mandi TRIGGER VALE Dray Graeme & Delia ULLAMALLA Bower Tim, Kevin & Sybilla STANLEY VALE Duncan Bob, Stuart & Warren DUNEDIN PARK POLL Brien Scott & Anna BELLA LANA Eastburn Peter & Jennelle CALEDONIA Brien Craig & Jody HILLANDALE Edwards Brian & Adam TIPPERLINNE Brooker John & Jacquie BRECON Evans Paul & Jane TAMBUA POLL Bruce Joan & Warren CORELLA Evans Guy, Anna, Rod & Adrienne TARA PARK Bruce Tim & Jeanette MERIMA Fischer Wayne & Jennifer MOUNT NANIMA Brunt Alan & Tricia NORTH YATHONG Fitzpatrick Troy PEGELA Bucknell Sam & Gillian OTTERBOURNE + POLL Fleming John DOREEN + POLL Burgess Bill & Jan BURRAGUNDY Fletcher David & Will AUCHEN DHU Burgess Andrew & Carolyn RUBY HILLS Fletcher Bill, Wendy & James (Jim) BELLEVUE PARK Bush Jim & Peter BOUGH YARD Fletcher Warwick & Jacki CAIRNIE Buttenshaw Bill & Heather LAUREL PARK + POLL Fletcher Lee & Ruth MERRYSHIELS Cameron Margaret & David EAST GOWRIE Fulloon Lachlan CRESSBROOK Cameron Josh ENGLEFIELD NORTH MERINOS Gaden Frank & Jean BOREELA Cameron Will, Archie & Jo KALANGA POLL Gall Tony & Janet WILSON’S CREEK Cameron Hugh & Heather THE YANKO Gardiner Julie & David BA MACK Campbell Justin BOONOKE + POLL Gavel Richard & Frances GULGO POLL Campbell Alexander (Sandy) KULLINGRAH Gibson Maurice CROIDON Campbell Jock MUNGADAL Gordon Barry & Sandra LYNDON Campbell Justin WANGANELLA Gordon Richard & Robyn WEST LYNNE Cannon Ray & Leanne Tremain WESTRAY Graham John & Susan BOONONGO Capel Peter, Louise & Enid BUNGULLA + POLL Granger Ron & Eunice & Aaron ROGARA POLL Capel Richard KULKI Green Roger ALOEBURN POLL Carey Dan & Vicki BALLYHOOLEY Green Michael & Mary BOUDJAH Carlon Peter & Trudy BLENMORE Griffith Ian & Janet BRUNDANELLA Carlon Philip & Jen, Tony & Barb QUEENLEE Grills Anthony WAVERLEY Carter Darryl & Robyn WHYWORRY PARK Hain Robert GUNYAH Cartwright Kim & Robyn KIROB Ham Neville & Sara LARA PLAINS Cathles Peter DUNDOOS PARK Harvey Stephen GREENWAY Chalker Richard & Debbie LACH RIVER Haslingden Ian & Sue INGLEWOOD ESTATE Chalmers Brad & Pru ACACIA-CANARY ISLAND Hawkins Len QUAMBY PARK POLL Chapman Drew & Laura HINESVILLE / WEST PLAINS POLL Hedger Michael (Mick) & Katrina SNOWY PLAIN Clark Rohan & Geraldine APPLEDORE Henderson Kim, Rocky & George GROGANSWORTH Clarke Leon & Shirley MANAWA Hickey Ian & Dot REVENUE PARK POLL Clonan Chris & Cindy ALFOXTON + POLL Hill Greg JARDINE Clowes Duncan VALDEMAR POLL Hines Geoff GLENHAVEN PARK Coddington Graham & Susie CODDINGTON POLL Holgate David WILLOW DALE Coddington Anthony & Margarete & Robert EAST ROSEVILLE + POLL Holley John & Lois YOOROOGA Coddington Matthew & Cherie ROSEVILLE PARK + POLL Honeysett Jeff & Gregory TRYNOW Cole Brenden TURON HILL Howard Ken ILLAWARRA + POLL Colley Peter MAROOMBAH Huggins Owen & Helen WOODPARK + NO 2 POLL Collits Colin, Dee & Lorraine MAYBROOK Huggins Carol & Stephen WOODPARK POLL Cordingley John & Julie LORELMO POLL Huggins / Sloane Helen KILNYANA / MULWALA Corkhill Michael & Jane GRASSY CREEK + POLL Hughes Peter, Margot & Andrew GULLENDAH Coventry Warren LYNOCH Inder Anthony & Penny ALLENDALE

122 CONTACT STUD CONTACT STUD Jamieson John & Edith EDITHVALE Mortimer Robert CENTRE PLUS POLL Jennings Dominic GUNBAR Moxham Bomber & Kate MULLENGUDGERY + POLL Johnson Tom & Christie JOHNSON PARK Mudford Don & Pamela PARKDALE Johnston John, Barry & Craig AUSTRAL-EDEN + POLL Munro Cam EGELABRA Johnston Matthew MILBURN CREEK Munsie Peter, Maryann & Greg KELVIN VALE Johnstone Lachlan & Delphine LANDS END POLL Newnham Jack CARA Jones Russell & Jennifer DARRIWELL + POLL Nivison Hugh, Tim & Felicity MIRANI + POLL Karsten Ken KIA-WARRA Nivison Grant & Jo, Jock YALGOO Kaveney Frank & Lisa TALLAWONG + POLL Noakes (nee Watts) Kim & Ken KAROWARA PLAINS POLL Kayess Stewart & Judith UROLEY POLL Norman Ray & Bev GLENRAY Keary Lola & Peter DANESFORT O’Keeffe Brennan, Sandy & Deirdrie TOOTHA Kelman John KIRKTON Oppenheimer Martin & Cheryl PETALI POLL Kent Rodney KURRAJONG PARK + POLL Orr Spike (Grant) GUNDARIMBAH Kerin Mark, Kym, Nathan & Brett GULLENGAMBLE + POLL Ostini Brendan RAVECCHIA + POLL Kerin Nigel & Kate KERIN POLL Overall Daryl & Kim DENILIQUIN STUD PARK POLL King Simon & John AVONSIDE Patrick Ben WOOLLAHRA Kingston Robert & Alison LOWANNA Peadon James MOORNA Kirk Tom & Kate BUNDEMAR Peake Malcolm BOGO + POLL Kopp Neville, Mavis, Garry & Warick TOWALBA + POLL Pearson Clive & Natasha GLENBROOK Larwood Phil BUNNERUNGIE POLL Peart Graham GRASS MERINOS Leeson Warren & Mavis ANGLEWOOD Peden Robert & Maree BULLAMALITA + POLL L’Estrange Peter BELSWICK Pendergast Mark & Jodie COTTAGE PARK Lette Peter & Jayne CONRAYN Perry Ian GDONYA POLL Lieschke Peter & Gavin BUNDALEER + POLL Peters Geoff & Dianne BALLATHERIE POLL Lilburne Ian BLUEBUSH POLL Phillips Steve & Liz, Don & Thea, YARRAWONGA + POLL Lindsay Rob & Kay CORA LYNN + POLL Picker Trevor, Murray, Grant & Brett HILLCRESTON Lisle David & Kathy, Don & Jane NETHERTON Picker Brett & Susan HILLCRESTON HEIGHTS Litchfield Jim HAZELDEAN Picker Danny & Megan, Trevor & Janet HILLCRESTON PARK + POLL Locker & Lloyd Sharon & William EAST YARRABIN Pike Trevor BULLA GULLY Lockwood Ian & Wendy HAWKSLEY PARK Pilley Mark, Joshua & Fiona EDEN PARK Longmire Geoff GLENELG Pippin Tom C LAKE POLL Luff Paul BONTARA Pitson Stuart VALLEY VISTA POLL Macarthur Onslow Matt LOONGANA POLL Pittman Paul GLENBURNIE MacKay Ron, Buzz & Ann LONE PINE Pollard Greg WARRANANGA Maclean Andy HADDON RIG + POLL Power Murray & Michelle AIRLIE + POLL Magill Tony & Alison OVERLAND Pratley Don NELUNGALOO / OAKBROOK Maguire Robert & Dale JILLIBY Price Murray & Ian GLEN MAYE Maloney Ken SYL-KEN Privett Graham & Margaret GLENLEIGH + POLL Manwaring John ROSE HILL Pye Charlie GINGIE Marchant Alan & Heather CARINYA POLL Rayner Ron GLANNA + POLL Martin Leon CHARMAC Rayner Max, Andrew & Brooke GRATHLYN / LYNFORD POLL Martin Matthew, Cameron & Glenda OLD COBRAN POLL + NO 2 POLL Rayner Geoff & Robyn POMANARA Maslen James WILLURAH Rees David & Carolyn GUNNERAMBY Mathews Rodger & Kim BORAMBIL Ridley Donald PINE HILL Mathews Len BULGANDRI POLL Ritter Peter & Denise & Cameron DUNUMBRAL Maxwell Deborah BELLAINE Roberts John & Kathy DUNBOGAN McBurnie Stuart, David & Karen WEEALLA + POLL Roche Neil HOMEWOOD McConnell Joyce GLEN EMU POLL Rollinson Bob GOOLGUMBLA McCormack Alan & Claire WALWA Roxburgh John CLEAR CREEK McCrabb Ken & Mary AVENEL Rubie Glen & Margot LACHLAN MERINOS + POLL McDonald Winston & Sue ROYALLA Ryan Trevor & Sarah RICHMOND McGaw Tony NIELA Schofield Peter & Helen GLENOAK McGrath Keith BILLA BURRA BURRA + POLL Seaman Gary LOCHNESS McIntosh Neville CARRABUNGLA Seis Colin, Jason & Nick WINONA / WINONA NO 2 McLaren Hamish, Jock & John NERSTANE + POLL Sendall Roger & Stuart ROSSMORE McLaughlin John MERRYANBONE + POLL Simpson George YOOROOBLA McLaughlin Jim MERRYANBONE NORTH POLL Smith David & Andrena EUDORA POLL McNeill Peter EUROPAMBELA Smith Robyn GIDYEAONG McPhie David & June COTTAGE CREEK Smith Norm & Pip GLENWOOD Merriman Charlie & Jono KOONWARRA Southwell Don & Lyn CARLEON PARK Merriman Charlie & Pip MERRIGNEE + POLL Southwell Peter & Faye WOODBURN Merriman Wally & George MERRYVILLE + POLL Spicer Mavis LUCAS GROVE Merriman Wally & George MERRYVILLE-MURGHA Stein Robert KAMERUKA Metcalfe Angus MILONG Stephenson Bruce & Laura WOODFIELD POLL Middleton Michael & Shah THE LAGOONS Stevenson Albert (Bert) EDEN MOOR Milthorpe David SOMERSET Stewart James & Janelle MORAY Morris Tony BONANZA Sutherland Hugh DEEARGEE POLL Mort Adam & Ann HILLTOP Sutherland John POOGINOOK + POLL

123 NSW CONTACT INDEX

CONTACT STUD CONTACT STUD Suttor-Roydhouse Shelley SUTTOR Watson David & Tina MAISTER’S SWAMP + POLL Swain Stephen & Kerry GENANEGIE Watson Sue & James SOUTH GREENBANK Swain Neville & Ben KILPHYSIC Watts Ben & Fiona BRALCA Swords Malcolm & Helen LARABEN POLL Wells Graham & Mary ONE OAK / ONE OAK NO 2 Symons Steve LEMANI Wells Alistair & Natasha ONE OAK POLL Taylor Chad, Louise, George & Kerry MUMBLEBONE Wells Ross & Irene WILLANDRA + POLL Ticehurst Alan & Judy STONEY VIEW Westblade Tim, Rachel & Margaret PASTORA + POLL Tozer Greg & Steve MAIN RANGE Weston Leon, Margaret & Brendan TARADEAN Traill Cecil TUWINGA White Andrew HAVILAH NORTH Van Eyk Maurice, Alison & Joe SHALIMAR PARK + POLL Whitechurch Jack WENDOUREE Walker George & Terry GLENBOWER Williams Kevin & Yvonne MACARTHUR PARK + POLL Walker Barry & Kristiane LEDGERTON Williams Jim & John THALABAH Walker Peter, James, Charlie & Jack WOOLAROO Williams Neil YARONG Wall Mick & Kirsty ST HILARY Winter John & Diane WIRRILLA Wallace David BOOABULA Wise Ray & Margaret KILBURNIE DOWNS Walters Mikala MIDDLE VIEW + POLL Woodhouse Gerald MYACK Ward Bob & Gloria ESSEX HILL Wright Glenn & Susan NIMALA Wass Ian & Georgina WOODSIDE Wythes Phillip & Oliver ROCKDALE Waters Mark EDINGTON Yelds Brad COBANA Waters David & Angie TARRANGOWER

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Brentwood A B F. No. 5046 C AACC Poll Barcaldine Downs R.J. & L.J. Sylvester PO Box 1272 Carra Poll F. No. 829 F. No. 2145 – Poll F. No. 1391 Goondiwindi 4390 F. No. 745 Australian Agricultural Barcaldine Downs Past Co P/L P: 07 4671 0880 Carra Pastoral Co College Corp “Barcaldine Downs” M: 0427 712 632 “Balmacarra” PO Box 470 Barcaldine 4720 [email protected] Charleville 4470 Longreach 4730 P: 07 4651 1608 P: 07 4654 9155 (Suzi) P: 07 4658 4605 M: 0427 114 461 Bullamon Plains [email protected] P: 1800 004 730 [email protected] [email protected] F. No. 964 Bullamon Plains Pastoral Coban Boyanga F. No. 2769 Angle-C “Bullamon Plains” F. No. 4800 Thallon 4497 Peskett & Son F. No. 4117 M.C. & V.W. Murphy P: 07 4625 9158 “Hill View” L.J. & C.L. Charles “Karbullah” [email protected] Cunnamulla 4490 “Angle-C” Goondiwindi 4390 P: 07 4655 4926 Inglewood 4387 P: 07 4676 1729 Bullawarrie P: 07 4652 4163 M: 0427 761 739 Colanya Poll [email protected] F. No. 379 J.A. Livingston Poll F. No. 1454 “Bullawarrie” Colanya Grazing Co Mungindi 2406 “Colanya Station” P: 02 6756 5193 Longreach 4730 [email protected] P: 07 4658 9163 M: 0407 589 163 [email protected]

124 Coreena Karmala Wattle Downs F. No. 660 – Poll F. No. 38 F. No. 3349 F. No. 2740 – Poll F. No. 558 Coreena Stud Sheep Pty Ltd Karmala Partnership R W.J. & K.S. Huskisson PO Box 42 MS 223 Roselea “Wattle Downs” Barcaldine 4725 Nobby 4360 F. No. 2243 – Poll F. No. 218 The Gums 4406 P: 07 4651 1142 P: 07 4696 3291 P.R. & L.J. Hacker P: 07 4665 9129 [email protected] “Roselea” [email protected] www.karmala.com.au Muckadilla 4461 P: 07 4626 8313 Well Gully Poll [email protected] Poll F. No. 1106 H Brumpton Quality Wool Hereward Australia Pty Ltd F. No. 3692 L “Well Gully” MacKay & MacKay Lansdowne T Mitchell 4465 “Morella” F. No. 474 - Poll F. No. 11 Terrick Merinos P: 07 4623 1170 Longreach 4730 Lansdowne Pastoral Co Ltd F. No. 440 wellgullymerinos@bigpond. P: 07 4658 9186 “Lansdowne” R. & J. Keogh com Tambo 4478 “Amaroo” P: 07 4654 6163 Blackall 4472 Wilgunya M: 0428 546 163 P: 07 4657 5987 F. No. 3764 [email protected] M: 0427 575 987 Wilgunya Grazing Co [email protected] “Wilgunya” J Dirranbandi 4486 Jolly Jumbuck Poll P: 07 4625 8214 Poll F. No. 1363 M: 0427 258 214 F., C. & L. Brumpton V [email protected] “Baynham” M www.wilgunyamerinostud.com Mitchell 4465 Mount Ascot Victoria Downs F. No. 100 – Poll F. No. 131 P: 07 4623 1430 F. No. 3475 Wyambeh Poll M.N., W.L. & N.M. Roberts M: 0427 231 430 R.R.E. & H.G. Brumpton Poll F. No. 1343 [email protected] “Mount Ascot” “Victoria Downs” Morven 4468 Wyambeh Partnership Mitchell 4465 “Wyambeh”, MS 1111 P: 07 4623 1430 P: 07 4654 8118/8109 [email protected] Roma 4455 [email protected] P: 07 4626 5454 [email protected] K Murrawondah Poll Karbullah Poll Poll F. No. 6 Poll F. No.1365 L. & W. Peskett W M.C. & V.W. Murphy “Hillview” Warroo Station “Karbullah” Cunnamulla 4490 F. No. 4913 Goondiwindi 4390 P: 07 4655 4926 Warroo Station P: 07 4676 1729 “Warroo Station” M: 0427 761 739 Inglewood 4387 [email protected] P: 07 4652 4148/4193 M: 0428 524 193 [email protected] QLD Contact Index CONTACT STUD CONTACT STUD Brumpton Errol & Candy WELL GULLY POLL Lowing Jan KARMALA Brumpton Felicity, Charles & Lachlan JOLLY JUMBUCK POLL MacKay Peter HEREWARD Brumpton Nigel & Rosemary MOUNT ASCOT McQueen Suzi CARRA Campbell Peter WYAMBEH POLL Miller Wally COREENA + POLL Charles Lyndon ANGLE-C Murphy Mark & Vicki KARBULLAH POLL + BOYANGA Earle Andrew (manager) BULLAWARRIE Peskett Bill & Lorna (Poss) COBAN + MURRAWONDAH POLL Ferguson Duncan (manager) BARCALDINE DOWNS + POLL Roberts Will & Narda VICTORIA DOWNS + POLL Goodrich Bim WARROO STATION Scott Peter AACC POLL Hacker Peter & Linda ROSELEA + POLL Sylvester Robert & Lisa BRENTWOOD Hegarty Pat & Sue COLANYA POLL Turnbull Hume LANSDOWNE + POLL Huskisson Bill, Loma & Karen WATTLE DOWNS + POLL Willis Bill BULLAMON PLAINS Keogh Richard & Jennifer TERRICK MERINOS Wilson Max & Heather WILGUNYA

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