Why, or better still, why not? Farming at Waikaka with Ross Paterson.

On the Head Shepherd podcast this week, we have Ross Paterson of Waikaka Genetics, Southland NZ. Ross is fifth generation at Waikaka Station. The family farm 200 Hereford Stud cows and run 4,000 ewes which includes a Texel, Romney, Romtex and Romdale studs.

The Patersons are well known for their Hereford stud, and breeding a functional cow that their buyers want is priority. Ross highlights it's important to ask your buyers what they want, not to try to tell them what they need.

As a 'retired builder', Ross has a different outlook on farming and often asks why, or better still, why not? This year they left tails on some of their Texel x ewes after scoring them at docking. They're naturally shorter coming from a Texel, so, why not?

It is always great to hear how other farmers work, and this is a great chat between Mark and Ross running through their farming system in Southland.

Find out more about Waikaka Genetics below
www.waikakagenetics.com


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