Individual ewe performance and the future of sheep productivity with Tara Dwyer
What limits ewe productivity in current sheep systems?Our guest this week, Tara Dwyer, is the breeding manager at Headwaters Genetics and a farm manager within the Lone Star Farms group. Her work covers stud breeding, commercial supply chains, and large-scale sheep systems. And, in amongst all of that, she has found time to do a Kellogg report, 'A New Fleece on Life: How the Sheep Farming Sector in Aotearoa Can Halt Terminal Decline to Secure a Sustainable and More Secure Future.'Starting with her 'day job', Tara and Mark discuss the value of genetics within a value chain, and how Headwaters…
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