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    The Top Sire

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    The Top Sire is the Annual Journal of the NSW Stud Merino Breeders Association Ltd, If you would like to receive this journal please email your request to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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    The Top Sire 2024-25

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    The Top Sire 2023-24

     

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    The Top Sire 2022-23

     

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    The Top Sire 2021-22

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    The Top Sire 2020-21

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    The Top Sire 2019-20 

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           Featuring:

    • 2019 Hall of Fam Inductees
    • New Leader for State's Merinos Breeders
    • 2019 Flock Ewe Competition Results
    •  Norman Volk
    • World's oldest semen still viable
    • Merino proving more than competitive
    • Wool Market offering good value
    • Vale Trevor Picker
    • NSW & QLD Stud Directory 

     


    The Top Sire 2018-19

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          Featuring:

    • Bomber Moxham, a lifetime of Poll Merinos
    • Emerging Merino Leaders
    • Thank you Bill Ferguson
    • Nerstane awarded Australian Supreme Merino
    • Supply wins the Battle but demand wins the war by: Andrew Blanch
    • Uruguay 2018
    •  Wool focussed enterprises boomed during 2017
    • Australian Sheep Breedign Values (ASBV)
    • An incredible year for Wool
    • John Williams

     


    The Top Sire 2017-18 

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      Featuring:

    •  NSW Merinos Lead teh way with brucellosis
    •  ASAWS Prompts new family within Alfoxton Stud
    •  Wool style wins bookham
    •  Introducing the Merino Lifetime Productivity Project
    •  Training Programs get young people into ag
    •  Supply vs Demand
    •  Merinos performing at "Ayrston"
    •  Merino Boom
    •  Merino's have been successful for us
    •  Is shearing more than once a year worth it?
    •  Eradication of Wild Dogs in Clusters            

     


     

    The Top Sire 2016-17

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    • Introducing your new President
    • Know your Numbers
    • NSW SMBA Trust funding
    • Breeding and feding the ultimate money makers
    • Midstate's magic move
    • Lowes on a high in Crookwell
    • Three out of three for the Chapmans
    • The professional sheepclasser
    • Honour for Bill Benjamin

     


     The Top Sire 2015-16

     

    TTS 2015 Cover Featuring:
    • Sheep Show supports Camp Quality Trek
    • New Federal leader
    • NSW SMBA Trust funding
    • Merino Wool - still the best game in town
    • The ewe rules
    • Polls reign at GSSM
    • Fat and fertility focus lifts profits
    • Raw Data - Simple and accurate
    • Trigger Vale's sheep farmers of the year
    • Hazeldean 1865-2015
    • One woman wool mill

     


     

    The Top Sire 2014-15 (118pp)

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    Featuring:

    • Tara Park - doubly supreme
    • Encouraging future wool industry leaders
    • Excitement of Wool Charne
    • How the Farmers of the Year farm
    • The woolshed
    • On tour in South Africa
             

     


    The Top Sire 2013-14    (128pp)     

    Featuring:
    • Two supremes to Merryville Merino stud
    • Once, a splendid coin
    • Featuring Merinos at Dubbo
    • Monsieur Keamy Merino knight
    • Merritop wins 2013 Peppin-Shaw
    • New research promotion group
    • Cheap insurance when shearing
    • Wool for wings
    • Pooginook embraces science

    The Top Sire 2012-13     (132pp)

     

    Featuring:
    • Shalimar Park’s historic Sydney win
    • Historic Willandra 150 year celebrations
    • Reports on all major NSW Merino shows and sales
    • The Top Twenty NSW ram and semen sales
    • NSW schools take up Merino Wether Challenge
    • Merino Ewe Competition results
    • Merinos outperforming wheat, cattle and prime lambs
    • On-property sale results and tops of the season

    The Top Sire 2011 (100pp)

     

    Featuring:
    • Nerstane’s Sydney Supreme
    • Wrap-up of Sydney, Dubbo and Canberra (GSSM) shows
    • 60th Hay Sheep Show
    • The Top Twenty NSW ram and semen sales
    • Record Merino flock price
    • Buying rams – you get what you pay for
    • Merino Ewe Competition results
    • On-property sale results and tops of the season

    The Top Sire 2010 (96pp)

     

    Featuring:
    • Merryville’s 10th Sydney Supreme and 24th Stonehaven Cup
    • Merino – the dominant breeding ewe
    • Self-replacing flocks on top in gross margins
    • 50 years of Dubbo National Ram Sale
    • The State’s major Merino shows and sales
    • NSW Merino ewe competitions
    • Poll Merino resurgence
    • On-property sale results and tops of the season

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