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Herefords and Merinos being mustered

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Herefords and Merinos being mustered

Hereford cattle and Merino sheep are mustered off high country in Central Otago and through the Teviot Stream. The animals have been grazing together on high tussock areas over the autumn, and are being brought down to lower country for the winter.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 8 May 2004, p.108

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Robert Peden, Beef farming – Beef breeding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17344/herefords-and-merinos-being-mustered (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.