Hay Merino Sheep Show celebrates 70 years
All the action from the 70th annual Hay Merino Sheep Show, snapped by Grazier photographer Margie McClelland.
Rural
Boonoke exhibits champion NSW hoggett Merino Ram
Poll Boonoke performed strongly for the Riverina at the 2022 Hay Merino Sheep Show on Saturday.
Poll Boonoke took out Champion Medium Wool March Ram against strong South Australian contender, Orrie Cowie and was sashed Best of the State (NSW) in the Riverina Wool Champion Hogget Ram category.
Willandra (Jerilderie)
Dyed in the wool local to train next generation at TAFE
Hay’s burgeoning wool industry has received a boost with news local girl and former national wool handling champion Kayla Garner to train the next generation of wool classers at TAFE NSW Hay.
Ms Garner, who was crowned Australian National Wool Handling Champion in 2013 and has 15 years’
Riverina Field Days set to get bigger
The 2022 Riverina Field Days will be on again at Griffith Showgrounds on May 13 and 14 with a new sponsor for the next three years, Lowes Petroleum.
Event organiser Jason Torresan said there has been high enthusiasm from exhibitors this year, indicating events like this are being embraced in
Region shines in Landcare awards
The region shared in two NSW Landcare Awards, when Nari Nari Tribal Council and Ivanhoe Central School were both announced as winners at an online award ceremony held last week.
Nari Nari Tribal Council was named the winner of the KPMG Indigenous Land Management Award, which acknowledges an outstanding Indigenous
Hooke family crowned best sheep farmers
By JAMES WAGSTAFF
Victorious grazing family - Marcus, Cassandra, Diane, Bill, Tom and Sarah Hooke of East Loddon Merinos are officially Australia’s best sheep farmers after taking out the The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year award in the sheep section.
Tom and Marcus Hooke are forging a
Farmer of the Year finalists
District stud breeders, Tom and Marcus Hooke are finalists in the 2021 Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year title.
The winner will be announced on March 16.
The Hooke family of East Loddon Merinos run 10,000 stud and 10,000 commercial ewes across their properties at Wanganella and