LONG-TERM PROJECT
Imports Of New Sheep
If it is decided to bring new sheep breeds to New Zealand it will be a long time' before they reach farms. Dr A. H. Carter, a scientist at the Ruakura agricultural: research centre, told the farmers’ conference at Lincoln yesterday that sheep of new breeds would never be released from the maximum quarantine station. Their progeny would, but they would first have to go to another quarantine station. The use of the new maximum quarantine station was still under discussion, he said. In a paper on the potential for increased farm efficiency from exotic breeds of sheep and cattle,- Dr Carter said there could be no advance guarantee that these would be superior to local stock already well adapted to local conditions. ' “The importation and evaluation of new breeds is undoubtedly costly but the potential rewards are indeed great—l would suggest increases of the order of 40 per cent in the national lambing rate and 20 per cent in sheep and beef carcase weights. The question is surely not whether we can afford to import and investigate new breeds but rather whether we can afford not to,” he said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32304, 23 May 1970, Page 12
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