Like all farming systems, sheep operations face increasing economic, environmental,
cultural, and social challenges, including climate change and consumer expectations about …

Simple Summary The paper presents practices related to reproductive management in
sheep and goat farms in Greece. It presents descriptive information regarding the practices …

New Zealand sheep producers generate most of their income from sheep sales, particularly
lamb sales. To increase revenue from lamb sales producers have two choices, increase the …

A strategy to increase wool income for coarse wool (fibre diameter> 30 µm) producers
through a transition to higher value medium wool (fibre diameter between 25 and 29 µm) …

New Zealand hill country sheep and beef farms contain land of various slope classes. The
steepest slopes have the lowest pasture productivity and livestock carrying capacity and are …

With decreasing wool values, interest is increasing regarding shedding sheep. To
investigate this, two long-term studies introducing Wiltshire genes into Romney flocks were …

This study reports the results of the first cross breeding of Romney ewes with Wiltshire rams
as part of a grading-up transition. Romney mixed-age ewes were bred to either Romney (n …

New Zealand coarse-woolled sheep farmers today barely recover the costs of shearing. One
option is to introduce a self-shedding breed such as the Wiltshire. A strategy to transition to a …

Sheep and beef cattle farming on hill country through the historic clearing of native
vegetation for pasture has caused biodiversity loss and increased the risk of soil erosion …

Since 1980, the production and sale of sheep for meat has overtaken wool as the primary
profit driver of Class 4 sheep enterprises in the Western North Island of New Zealand. While …