Hat-tricks for sheep classer Michael Elmes

MG
April 23 2021 - 3:00pm
The Milbank flock of the Carruthers family, Tullibigeal, won the 2021 Lake Cargelligo Maiden Merino Ewe competition. Pictured is flock classer Michael Elmes, Narrandera, with winners Barry, Vickie and Jared Carruthers among their ewes. (Insert) Kym Hannaford, Nutrien Ag, Wagga Wagga, discusses finer points of some ewes with classer, Michael Elmes, Narrandera.
The Milbank flock of the Carruthers family, Tullibigeal, won the 2021 Lake Cargelligo Maiden Merino Ewe competition. Pictured is flock classer Michael Elmes, Narrandera, with winners Barry, Vickie and Jared Carruthers among their ewes. (Insert) Kym Hannaford, Nutrien Ag, Wagga Wagga, discusses finer points of some ewes with classer, Michael Elmes, Narrandera.
The Milbank flock of the Carruthers family, Tullibigeal, won the 2021 Lake Cargelligo Maiden Merino Ewe competition. Pictured is flock classer Michael Elmes, Narrandera, with winners Barry, Vickie and Jared Carruthers among their ewes. (Insert) Kym Hannaford, Nutrien Ag, Wagga Wagga, discusses finer points of some ewes with classer, Michael Elmes, Narrandera.
The Milbank flock of the Carruthers family, Tullibigeal, won the 2021 Lake Cargelligo Maiden Merino Ewe competition. Pictured is flock classer Michael Elmes, Narrandera, with winners Barry, Vickie and Jared Carruthers among their ewes. (Insert) Kym Hannaford, Nutrien Ag, Wagga Wagga, discusses finer points of some ewes with classer, Michael Elmes, Narrandera.

THE great thing about ewe competitions in a field day format is the exchange of ideas and management tools which have really come to the fore since the years of the millennium drought from 2002 and also 2017 to 2019.

MG

Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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