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MLP Project

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and the Australian Merino Sire Evaluation Association (AMSEA) have teamed up to deliver the Merino Lifetime Productivity Project (MLP). The project offers a unique and exciting opportunity to evaluate lifetime Merino productivity including the relationship between lamb and wool production, how to best select for lifetime productivity and the role that genetics plays in generating lifetime returns. 

Five independent sites located across Australia will be involved in collecting and recording this data. The sites will operate like standard sire evaluation sites – following the rigorous and independently assessed measured and visual assessment protocols.

In total 167 sires will be joined to 90 ewes to generate the F1 ewe progeny that will form the basis of the project. At the conclusion of the standard sire evaluation (generally once progeny are between 18 - 24 months of age), AWI will support the ongoing measurement and visual classing of all F1 ewe progeny through 4-5 joinings (capturing reproduction records) and annual shearings. 

The sites involved in the project will be located in diverse environments and vary in sheep type, lambing dates, seasonal challenges and shearing dates.

The first site “Elders Balmoral” at Harrow, Vic, joined in 2015 and 2016 with 24 sires entered in each year. In 2016 two new sites joined the project with 13 sires joined at MerinoLink, Temora (NSW) and 15 sires joined at Pingelly in Western Australia. A fourth site “New England” located near Armidale (NSW) will join 15 sires in 2017 and at the fifth site “Macquarie”, near Trangie (NSW) will join 16 sires in December 2016. All sites join for a maximum of two years.

 

MLP-Project-2017-Sire-Nomination-Form.pdf

MLP-Site-Ewe-Base-2017-Joining.pdf

 

For further information:

https://www.wool.com/on-farm-research-and-development/sheep-health-welfare-and-productivity/sheep-breeding/merino-lifetime-productivity-project/

or contact Anne Ramsay (M:0400 368 448), Ben Swain (M:0427 100 542)

 

 

 

 

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