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Being aware that the Texel is one of the world's most productive meat breeds of sheep, PG invested heavily in foundation "seed stock" by purchasing 321 of the most genetically purebred animals from those originally introduced into New Zealand.

From its modest beginning (with only 321 Texel ewes), PG has increased its stock tremendously and within a short period has grown into the largest breeder of registered purebred Texels in the southern hemisphere and is now running 1400 purebred ewes.

Premier Genetics is based at Takapau, Hawkes Bay in New Zealand with two satellite stud operations near Dannevirke. Rob Forsyth managers the Takapau operation which concentrates on the purebred Texels.

With the demand for the Texel composite rams PG are producing Texel/Finn, Romney, Poll Dorset, East Friesian, Perendale and Oxford composites. Two satellite studs have been established to cater for the expanding operation and to produce stock from appropriate environments and conditions.

Malcolm and Jocelyn Scott of Coonoor run a hill country farm up to 800 meters in altitude. They are producing Texel composites specialising on the introduction of Finn genetics.
Progeny from Malcolm and Jocelyn's flock will be required to have high fecundity and to be able to withstand an intense hill country farming operation.

Cedric and Rochelle Murphy farm under the Ruahine ranges 10km out of Dannevirke on very steep hard hill country and are producing Texel/Perendale composites.
Stock have to be hardy and able to survive in a harsh environment with minimal intervention and handling as well as producing multiple lambs, quality carcass lambs and high bulk premier wool.

This year PG produced the top three ram lambs and seven of the top ten ram lambs in the NZ Texel sire reference programme.

These results are not surprising as PG had been identifying superior genetics using sire referencing and blup (best linear unbiased predictor) testing over the previous years going right back to the release from quarantine where only the best genetics were acquired.

Genetic gains from sire referencing are enormous as environmental and management variances are isolated allowing selection on genetic merit only - as endorsed by the Mckinsey report

All figures and indexes are available for clients to assist in ram selection.

We have used top genetics in the cross breeding programme and have a range of crosses to appeal to all farming spectrums. With yield grading already being used in Australia and carcass cut payments on the horizon the commercial farmers are poised to be rewarded for the work PG have done with the Texel since their release from quarantine