This has become and important issue  for livestock producers - both to protect our own farms and also to protect the reputation of our product to consumers both domestic and overseas. We have an extremely good reputation for producing a quality product that is grown sustainably with good animal welfare standards. Our ... Read More

Late in 2016 I was given the opportunity to become the Vice President of the Sheepmeat Council of Australia. The Sheepmeat Council of Australia (SCA) is the nation’s peak body representing and promoting the national and international interests of lamb and sheepmeat producers in Australia. SCA has many roles that ... Read More

Genomic developments Illoura has supported the Sheep CRC with the research on genomic evaluation and SNP chip technology. This technology uses DNA samples to measure a range of traits and Illoura uses this DNA test for the top sires within the stud. This DNA testing will improve the accuracy of the ASBV’s for sheep ... Read More

We have uploaded the 2017 Illoura Flock Ram Sale Catalogue to our website this morning as promised. It has been provided in both PDF format for easy printing as well as Excel format so you can do some sorting and selections on the qualities you are looking for in your terminal sires for the coming years. We have ... Read More

Life Time Ewe Management We were involved with the LTEM program in 2016 and found it very interesting and rewarding. One of the key profit drivers to increasing the gross margin for any sheep enterprise is to increase lambing and weaning percentages. To improve the weaning percentage it is important to monitor and ... Read More

The Illoura flock continues to grow and this year we mated 1350 stud ewes and tagged nearly 2000 lambs from these ewes. All lambs are weighed at birth, at weaning and early post weaning along with post weaning fat and muscle measurements. Detailed pedigree details are recorded and we can provide a pedigree going back ... Read More

The use of EID has dramatically increased the efficiency and improve the accuracy of our sheep recording system.  All lambs are tagged at birth with a full pedigree recorded along with birth weight, birth type, rearing type and lambing ease (even dead lambs are tagged so that a ewe's breeding history is accurately ... Read More

Lambex is Australia's largest lamb-focused event. The two-day conference is held once every two years and covers topics such as market opportunities, science and new technology. Perth, Western Australia, has been chosen to host the next Lambex on 5-7 August 2018. Learn More   Lambex 2014 It was very ... Read More

Poh Ling Yeow (of Masterchef and Poh's Kitchen fame) came to take a look at the White Suffolk sheep at the 2010 Royal Adelaide Show. She talked to Allan and Ian Pfeiffer (Burwood stud) about what is involved in breeding lamb that is tender and tasty and took a look at our sheep while she was there. This episode aired ... Read More

The SA Sheep Industry Blueprint is progressing very well since its successful launch  in April 2016. The ultimate aim is to increase the value of the SA sheep industry by 20% over 5 years. This doesn’t necessarily require increasing ewe numbers by 20%, but there are numerous opportunities across the supply chain to ... Read More