Matching genetics to environment pays off

摘要

Wool growers Lyndon and Sharon Kubeil have used Australian Sheep Breeding Values and a local stud to turn their commercial flock around - and it is paying off at the wool sales. In northeast Victoria, commercial sheep producers Lyndon and Sharon Kubeil are successfully breeding a profitable, early-maturing Merino while keeping an eye on wool cut and quality. But this has not always been the case. In 2000, when the Kubeils first purchased their property Laurana, just outside of Violet Town, they soonfound the sheep they were breeding were not ideally suited to their new environment.