GALT, Calif. — Even though college and work took Catherine Diaz-Khansefid away from ranch life and onto a business career path, her ranching spirit always remained. “I was born and raised in ...

Greetings daktari. First, congratulations on your educative articles in the pullout. Second, I am developing a 50-acre farm in Laikipia just past Rumuruti. Farmers in this part of Kenya prefer Dorper ...

Deep in Erankau village some 6km from Sultan Hamud sits an impressive 400 hectare Dorper sheep sanctuary. The farm run by Mzee Paul ole Nagisikie and his brother, has been a learning centre for other ...

Parker Bosley, co-owner of Parker’s New American Bistro in Ohio City, is among the chefs featured in a Wall Street Journal story about restaurateurs who are breeding their own meat. The story calls ...

“If you’ve got a Merino ewe and she’s not producing a lamb, at least you can shear her,” David says. “With Dorpers it’s like having an empty hotel room — they don’t pay. “We don’t muck around. We ...

Prices of $300, $400, $500 and $600 have regularly appeared on AuctionsPlus for young Dorper and Australian White ewes this year, culminating in some record-smashing sales of up to $994 a head in the ...

ORLAND, Calif. – Lifelong sheep producers Wes and Jane Patton believe they found the perfect variety for their 230-acre ranch here. For a little over a decade, they’ve been breeding and selling white ...

You've been doing the same job all your life but your income starts drying up. That was life for the Griffiths family near Pooncarie in south-west New South Wales. After generations of merino farming ...

Bernard Njaramba, 43, took a leap of faith and quit a lucrative job in the telecommunication sector to set up an exotic Dorper sheep breeding enterprise. When the Business Daily visited him at his ...

THE CHAMPION pen showed no waste and the others showed exceptional yield, Warwick Show and Rodeo Society 2006 Prime Lamb Carcass Competition judge Paul Carey said yesterday. Freestone Fresh Lambs took ...

It’s a week we look forward to every year – slaughtering a prime beast we’ve reared for all the staff on the farm. They are a great team and really put a lot of effort in, and with the cost of living ...