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An overwhelming response to a sheep welfare survey of farmers, scientists and consumers shows animal wellbeing is of utmost importance to the Australian sheep industry, says Australia’s Sheep CRC.

Well-known sheep specialist Professor Paul Kenyon is the new head of Massey University’s Institute of Veterinary, Animal, and Biomedical Sciences.

Australian sheep farmers are set to benefit from strong global demand for lamb thanks to tighter supplies from New Zealand.

BEEF + LAMB New Zealand (B+LNZ) is working together with its sheep farming counterparts from the US and Australia to get Americans eating more lamb.

HIGHER SHEEP and beef prices seem set to buffer the drop in export earnings from dairying, according to the latest economic update from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

THE IMPACT of the massive drought two years ago is still affecting sheep numbers, with only a modest increase this season.

DONE RIGHT, sheep farms can compete with dairy, says Professor Tony Bywater, of Lincoln University’s faculty of agriculture and life sciences.

THE WORLD’S first sheep worm vaccine has been released in Australia.

Barbervax protects against barber’s pole (Haemonchus contortus) giving farmers and vets a drench alternative that will limit drench resistance, says Australia’s Sheep Collaborative Research Center (Sheep CRC).

AUSTRALIAN FARMERS will not have imposed on them a national electronic ID system for identifying sheep and goats.

A NEW Lincoln University education and research facility aims to help boost profitability in the sheep sector.