Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port Jackson, in the colony of New South Wales. Little ...
The Vermont (USA) rams devastated the Australian wool industry when introduced in the 1880s and the effects are still being felt 140 years later. The breeders in Vermont bred their sheep to produce ...
Middle Eastern importers are worried about what the end of Australia's live sheep export trade will mean for their consumers and business. The Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading Company says ...
Australian sheep meat abattoirs have prioritised mutton processing over lamb since winter, as strong export demand and favourable margins for mutton coincided with delayed spring lamb supply.