Our Philosophies…

We would like to detail some of our thoughts behind the Etiwanda White Dorper Rangeland Ready breeding philosophies to help ensure that our clients operations are highly profitable.

Optimum production is always much more profitable than maximum production. Bigger is not always better. Optimum production is the point at which net profits are maximized. Profit is what we really want to maximize. We need to focus on profit per ha not per animal – two very different things! With nearly a decade of benchmarking data under our belt we have been able to increase our Gross Margin/Ha/100mm by 2.5 times – not a bad result for tough country out west. There was a very interesting article in the July 2013 edition of the Acres magazine by John King looking at the profit from different sheep production systems in New Zealand. They looked at the profit of different sized ewes from 45 kg – 70 kg at different reproductive rates 110 % -170%. The interesting point was that the highest profit came from 45 kg ewes at 130% lambing out performing 70 kg ewes at 170% lambing.

Animals Fit Their Environment. To achieve optimum production farmers must produce animals that fit their environment, instead of feeding harvested and purchased feed to keep stock that don’t fit their environment in production. This very quickly takes most of the profit out of farming. Etiwanda White Dorpers breed animal’s that can make the most efficient use of available resources with minimal inputs.