Abstract

The major challenges facing the sheep industry are improving animal performance, minimising disease, reducing labour, and being attuned to consumers' long term needs. Solutions will involve new technology in sheep breeding, biological disease control and novel approaches to reducing labour associated with sheep. Environmental, health and welfare issues are shaping up to be major consumer issues by the 21st century and production techniques will come under closer scrutiny in future.

RMW, Sumner, and ML Scott

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 50, , 329-334, 1990