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Call today to learn 
about our studs! 
Call 0427 203 524

Barwon – Mark & Jane Yates

Our family-run ram stud in Yerong Creek, has been breeding sheep since 1940. Our aim was then, and still is, simple: to breed rams that will go on to produce outstanding offspring for a variety of commercial purposes. 


Today we breed two main types of studs: Poll Dorsets and Kubura White Suffolks. All of our sheep are kept healthy through an intensive program backed by the latest science.



The farm today is managed by Mark, Jane and Robert Yates. For all enquiries, please contact us below:

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About the Property

 Barwon is situated 42km southwest of Wagga Wagga. The farm itself comprises 920 hectares of undulating red loam to clay loam. There are about 560mm of average annual rainfall.


We are a pure livestock farm running approximately 1,600 ewes, a mixture of Poll Dorsets and White Suffolks. We also trade Angus heifers. The heifer trading system nicely compliments our closed sheep flock. It allows us to increase stocking density in times of excess feed availability and totally destock over drier periods.


Improved pastures are based on Lucerne and sub clover. These species supply high-quality grazing and are conserved as hay or silage providing high-quality supplementary feed.

History of Sheep Breeding at Barwon
The Yates family have been breeding sheep at Yerong Creek since 1940, when Henry Yates began breeding Dorset Horns, a noted dual purpose sheep.In 1964, his son Rob extended the breeding program to include Poll Dorsets, and Rob’s sons Peter and Mark introduced White Suffolk to Barwon in 1991.
Poll Dorset
The Poll Dorset is a short-wool, meat producing sheep; it’s by far the most popular of the terminal sire breeds for production of prime lamb in Australia. The breed was developed between 1937 and 1954 by introducing the poll gene into Dorset Horn flocks from two other poll breeds. A strict program of back-crossing was used to achieve close to 100% Dorset Horn blood. The characteristics of the breed, such as rapid growth, superior fleshing and muscular development, make them ideally suited for the meat trade.
White Suffolk
White Suffolk is an Australian breed, proven as a prime lamb terminal sire across a wide range of Australian environments. Lambs sired by White Suffolk rams are noted for their high quality, white, down-type wool. White Suffolks are ideal for the Elite lamb requirements at carcass weights of 20 kg and heavier.