ZQ & ZQRX STORIES

Station Name Ridgecliff Wool type Strong Standard ZQRX Farm size 420 hectares Flock size 1,500 merino Location Chorlton, New Zealand    Ridgecliff is a sixth‑generation family property in Canterbury, New Zealand, where Annabel and Hamish Craw are carrying forward a legacy shaped by more than a century of care. The couple took ownership twelve years ago, stepping into a role that feels as much custodial as operational.     For the

Station Name Oxton Park Wool type Merino Standard ZQRX Farm size 8094 hectares Flock size 14,000 merino Location Harden, NSW, Australia Oxton Park sits on the southwest slopes of New South Wales, where the O'Connor family has farmed for more than 100 years. The 20,000-acre property at Harden is a mixed enterprise, with a purebred self-replacing Poll Merino flock at its centre. For Brad Cavanagh, Oxton Park Farm Manager, the con

Station Name Ahuriri Downs Station Wool type Merino and mid-micron  Standard ZQRX  Farm size 5300 hectares  Location Omarama, New Zealand Flock size 13000 merino, 5000 mid- micron     Andrew is the fourth generation to farm on Ahuriri Downs and is passionate about wool. Like many of our ZQ growers, Andrew is also a professional wool classer, meaning that by touch he can determine the micron and quality of the wool fibre. After each fleece is shorn, he inspect

It starts with a clink of mugs before the sun’s even up. Someone tightens a saddle; another calls out to the dogs and a whistle...

On ZQ properties, often vast in scale compared with the smaller, intensive farms of the Northern Hemisphere, sheep are handled as little...

The  Autumn Muster has been an important date in the high-country calendar for well over 150 years in New Zealand. As the seasons change,...