Sheep Station Nz

Synopsis: Dylan Winter spent three months in New Zealand recording a wide range of sheep farms and the background to them. Most of New Zealand gets plenty of rain - it’s a good place to grow grass. Where you can grow grass you can grow sheep, and on one station in this DVD they run 40,000 ewes, not to mention 1,500 cows and 4,000 deer hinds.
The breed names include: Romneys, Merinos and the Romney x Cheviots known as Perendales.
Winter explores different sheep management techniques; the change in the meat/wool price; the part cattle play on sheep farms; the continuing importance of the UK Christmas lamb market and how the Kiwis have coped with the ending of their ‘special relationship’.
There are interviews with recent farming immigrants from Scotland who compare their experiences.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Agriculture
Keywords: farming; immigrants; New Zealand; sheep

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Notes: DVDs and books for enthusiasts in the land-based industries: farmers and smallholders, workers in the earthmoving, forestry and heavy transport occupations. Titles deal with current activities and machinery as well as the history of the industries.

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