Exiting commercial sheep producers have taken home this year’s top gong for their Merino fleece – 40 years in the making.

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 wet start to 2026 in regional South Australia has helped create perfect conditions for multiple lamb births on one merino ...

As winter sets in, many of us are turning to our cosy jumpers, snug base layers and anything else that can take the bite out of cold mornings. That is where merino wool shines. It is warm, comfortable ...

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

The 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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