Sheep Price – A Farmer’s Reality

You’re up at 6AM, counting lambs in the mist, checking for foxes or the neighbour’s dog. You trim feet, dose for worms, sort store lambs for the mart, and pray rain won’t wash the profits away before June.

You clip wool that’s barely worth the diesel to bring it in. You treat mastitis, pull stuck lambs, fight coccidiosis, and make it all work with what you have on hand. Some years it pays — most, it only just keeps the land in grass.

Is There Another Path?

Hemp. It’s not a miracle — but it’s simple. Sow it, tend it, harvest it. Sheep graze after, grass gets a break, and there’s a contract price at the end. A little less chaos, a little more margin, and a system that fits around your flock, not the other way around.