Efficiency ethos for brothers - au.news.yahoo.com
24 May 2012, 2:44 am
Sheep are also an important part of the mix on the farm and account for half of their enterprise. They run merinos with 20 per cent mated to black-faced Suffolks. This year they have scanned all of their ewes and recorded only 4 per cent dry. Forty nine ...

merinos Home Furnishings opening display room, Boyles addition - Furniture Today
23 May 2012, 8:50 am
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — merinos Home Furnishings, a retailer that opened here last year in a refurbished former textile mill, says it plans to open two new buildings on the site this Monday, Memorial Day. Boyles Furniture will open a 30,000-square ...

merinos Home Furnishings To Open 2 New Buildings And 4 Additional Acres Of Furniture On Memorial Day - PR Newswire
22 May 2012, 2:49 pm
MOORESVILLE, N.C., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Bay bought the long-abandoned Burlington Mills property on Mooresville's main street with one vision in mind: to create one of the largest, most spectacular stores in the world, a center for furniture ...

Value up in flat sale - Weekly Times Now
22 May 2012, 12:12 pm
"A lot of our country is more suited to grazing than cropping," Mr Carland said. "And we like working with sheep." They run merinos, mainly for wool production, but have added some White Suffolk rams to the mix after diversifying into prime lamb production ...

Focus wool dollars on China: Merriman - Stock Journal
21 May 2012, 12:27 pm
Mr Merriman said his family, who run about 26,000 stud and flock merinos near Boorowa on the NSW South West Slopes, aimed to produce the type of wool wanted by Italian mills because that returned the most money while they also didn't chase lamb markets ...

Merino's Kindvall sets 1A meet record at state - Sterling Journal-Advocate
18 May 2012, 12:31 pm
ENGLEWOOD --The results are in for the first day of the State Track Meet held in Jefferson County Stadium in Englewood. The Merino girls are in the lead after the first day with 23.50 team points. They had two girls place in the pole vault ...

Warm up at the Nimmitabel Bonfire - Bombala Times
15 May 2012, 4:45 pm
The event is being held to raise money to finish building the Sheep and Goat Shed to house the increasing amount of show shearing, stud merinos, flock merinos, British breeds, goats and crossbred lambs coming to the Nimmitabel Show. This year Nimmitabel ...

Western Plains Central West Rural Report - ABC Online
15 May 2012, 4:09 pm
Michael and Louisa Kiely have run fine wool merinos at Goolma since the early 'nougthies'; they're working hard to replenish the carbon in their soils, and they're getting ready to trade in the carbon market. They say that the process of designing a ...

SA sheep numbers back without Naracoorte - Stock Journal
14 May 2012, 12:11 am
Most buyers are reporting $5 to $7 for the clean crossbred skins, while open skins are only making $3/skin. Most merinos are from $8 to $12 with fine wool the main criteria, while the longer more open skins may not attract that much interest. There are ...

Coals to Newcastle: fine wool to New Zealand - The Canberra Times
6 May 2012, 7:51 am
Oxton Park runs 25,000 merinos and has sold 300 bales to the Kiwis and signed contracts to supply 200 bales next year and 200 bales the following year. Australia and New Zealand are rebuilding sheep flock numbers as prices for mid-micron wool and pastures recover.