What are profitable Merino Sheep?
At the 2011 Bookham comparison trial (33 teams, under the same management conditions), the difference in wool value between the Greendale Team ($82.99) and the lowest ranked team ($45.08) was $37.91 per head. On a 4000 head merino flock this would equate to $151,640 per year additional wool profit for the Greendale genetics.
How profitable are your Merino Sheep?
Merino Bloodline Comparison 1999-2010. Greendale Merinos ranked second in both $/DSE and $/head of the 53 high accuracy bloodlines measured at 57 productivity trial sites across Austraila.
In the 1996-2006 Merino bloodline comparison, Greendale Merinos gross margin/dry sheep equivalent (profit) was 18% above the average ranking them 3rd overall of the 222 bloodlines analysed from comparison trials at 63 sites across Australia.
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Bloodline deviations for clean fleece weight (CFW) and fibre diameter (FD) for the 53 high accuracy bloodlines
