New Zealand Merino Stud Breeders: Events

2010 Canterbury Merino Stud Breeders' Tour and Flock Ewe Competition

The Canterbury Merino Association will run a stud breeders' tour from Wednesday 24th to Friday the 26th of March. The association's 2nd biennial Two Tooth Ewe competition will be run in conjunction with the tour.

The tour will start in Cheviot on Wednesday 24th of March and will include five studs and seven flocks in North Canterbury finishing in Christchurch on the first day.

The second day will cover a further three studs and five flocks from Yaldhurst and up the Waimakariri and back down the north bank of the Rakaia stopping overnight in Methven.

The final day will commence on the Canterbury plains, travel up the Ashburton Gorge and include an optional trip through Lake Stream to the South Bank of the Rakaia valley.

The tour will conclude with a prize giving for the Flock competition in Methven followed by a tour dinner. In all nine studs and seventeen flocks will be visited covering a diverse range of country and Merinos.

For further information and registration forms contact Paul Ensor at the Canterbury Merino Association or download from here...
Merino Tour Itnerary
Registration Form

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Central Otago Stud Merino Breeders 23rd Ram Sale

The 23rd Central Otago Merino ram sale will be held at the Wanaka showgrounds on Friday 12 March, 2010 in conjuction with the Upper Clutha A&P Show. .

Inspection of rams will commence at 1pm. The auction will be held at 3pm.

There will be 18 stud and selected merino rams for sale. This sale is an industry shop window. Rams will be from Armidale, Bendigo, Blairich, Grays Hills, Lauder, Malvern Downs Poll, Malvern Downs, Moutere, Nine Mile and Stonehenge.

Secretary: Jenni Sanders, Little Valley, RD 2 Alexandra, ph/fax 03 448 6575, e-mail sanders.lvs@farmside.co.nz

8th World Merino Conference

The 8th World Merino Conference will be held 3 - 5 May 2010 in Rambouillet, France, less than 50km south west of Paris. The conference will be hosted by the Bergerie Nationale, a model farm, and current presidential residence. Bergerie Nationale is home to a merino flock maintained since their arrival from Spain in 1786.

The New Zealand Merino Stud Breeders Society has appointed specialist rural travel agent Farm to Farm Tours to organise a New Zealand tour group. The tour may work in with the Australian Association of Stud Merino Breeders. The Australians are proposing a number of optional study programs including pre-conference trips to France, Spain and Portugal and post-conference trips to Italy or Romania and Germany.

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