This stud was winning awards and attracting top prices, thanks to a quality sire imported from Australia eight years ago.
A decision in the early 1980s to import a world-famous Merino ram from Australia has paid dividends for Andries du Toit Pienaar's Diep River stud, near Hanover
The ram, Barloo 74, combined excellently with Pienaar's stud sheep, which were producing rich, soft-handling wool.
“The result was a big, well-built, less-pleated animal with medium wool, which was
