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

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

A Victorian farmer says it will take years for him to recover from a series of sophisticated, coordinated farm thefts that cost him more than $175,000. Steve Wheeler has had more than 1,700 sheep ...

I've hiked hundreds of miles in Merino socks and I'm a huge fan, but this super soft wool isn't always necessarily the best material for the job. The post Are Merino wool hiking socks worth the ...

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

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

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

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