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  • Highest price R80 000Highest price R80 000 picture

    At Konsortium-Merino's 30th sale, 18 February 2016, this ram fetched the highest price ever paid for a Konsortium ram: R80 000.

  • Better SA record at 32nd saleBetter SA record at 32nd sale picture

    At Konsortium-Merino's 32nd production sale all 353 rams were sold at an average of R8 418 to better their current SA record for turnover to R2 971 400.

  • Invest in ewe unitsInvest in ewe units picture

    Buy Konsortium-Merino ewe units. It is a safe investment in livestock, without having to be involved in the administration thereof...

  • Changing gears from price taker to price maker

    2014-02-13

    Prof. Eckart Kassier predicted in 1994 there would only be 30 000 farmers on the land by 2014. Back then, many farmers thought he had lost it, but today that is all we are. Decline is inevitable unless...

  • Faith like woolFaith like wool picture

    Angus Buchan, parading his 100% proudly South African, Konsortium-Merino wool jacket, with joy.

  • From sheep to shop

    2012-03-28

    Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving...

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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.
    • Konsortium-Merino is the first Merino stud in South Africa to appoint its own client advisors, in doing so, to add value to their clients’ businesses
    • At the first Konsortium-Merino sale, held in 2001, there were 78 rams on ...

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