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  • Another SA record - 333 rams sold!

    2013-02-21

    On 21 February another SA record was broken on Konsortium-Merino home turf. At their 24th production sale, the group set a new SA record by selling the most rams on a Merino auction.

  • Another sheep specialistAnother sheep specialist picture

    Konsortium-Merino has appointed its second sheep specialist. Tommie Calldo will join Cobus Vivier in ensuring the quality and standard of our farmers stock is such, that the genetics, wool and meat can confidently be purchased on the open market.

  • New ear tags

    2012-10-06

    Konsortium-Merino has a new ear tag which promises to be more user-friendly.

  • Our very own Konsortium-Merino creep feed

    2012-09-18

    It fulfils the nutritive requirements of young lambs and has been available at co-operatives countrywide since September 2012.

  • "Share" in our success

    2012-09-10

    Large quantities of quality wool, meat and skins are produced under the Konsortium-Merino brand. However, these volumes are not nearly sufficient to meet the demand for these products. So what do we do to solve this problem?

  • Highest price everHighest price ever picture

    HL Kitshoff and Sons from Egbertsvlei, Moorreesburg, paid the highest price of R54 000 at the 23rd Konsortium-Merino sale. This is the highest price ever paid for a Konsortium-Merino ram.

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Welcome to Konsortium-Merino

The Konsortium team welcomes you to their world: the vast, open plains of the Karoo, where they breed top Merino sheep with great pride and dedication. This barren area of South Africa is known for its droughts and extreme temperatures. The summers can be upward of 40°C and the winter temperatures often plummet well below freezing point. It is in these harsh conditions that Konsortium-Merino comes into its own.

This Merino has the ability to make a profitable income under extensive conditions. Throughout South Africa, many farmers are achieving success with the Konsortium-Merino and they keep coming back for more - time and again. As your area and its nutrition plane improve, so too the productivity of the Konsortium-Merino, without the micron blowing.

Come and share today in the vision of the Konsortium team. Experience their enthusiasm and passion. Walk the road along which their Merino dreams are realised.

Only as high as I reach can I grow…Only as far as I seek can I go…Only as deep as I look can I see…Only as much as I dream can I be.  Anon

  • The Merino

    The Konsortium-Merino breeders are fine-tuning the ideal dual-purpose Merino – a sheep with a large carcass and medium to fine wool of quality. It is fertile and able to adapt countrywide. Their farming statistics, content clients and a countrywide demand for their plain-bodied Merinos confirm that they are on the right track.

  • The Breeders

    Konsortium-Merino evolved in 1996 from a unique partnership between four Merino breeders from Victoria West. An idea, spontaneously kindled around a braai fire, has since sparked one of the Merino industry’s greatest genetic successes. When Gawie van Heerden of Dombietersfontein-Merino’s, John Luscombe of Grove-Merino’s, Vetties Esterhuizen of Victoria-Merino’s, and Lukie Erasmus from Brandewynskuil agreed to pool their top stud rams, ...

  • Fast Facts

    Konsortium-Merino uses Mother Nature as chief classer and breeds a sheep which is adapted accordingly. The team believe in the upliftment and development of their staff. They have 30 workers enrolled in adult education multimedia programmes.Konsortium-Merino is the first Merino stud in South Africa to appoint its own client advisors, in doing ...

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