Merino Wool 2002
Distributed by Chip Taylor Communications, 2 East View Drive, Derry, NH 03038-4812; 800-876-CHIP (2447)
Produced by Maplewood Productions, Inc.
Director n/a
VHS, color, 12 min.
High School - Adult
Agriculture
Date Entered: 11/09/2018
Reviewed by Buzz Haughton, Shields Library, University of California, DavisThis video is a unit of the Agricultural Sciences series of Chip Taylor Communication's videocassettes.
Set on the South Island of New Zealand, the Emmerson family is interviewed. The Emmersons have developed their family-owned merino sheep operation into a highly profitable business through a combination of computer-tracked selective breeding of their sheep to produce ultrafine wool, the use of helicopters to herd large numbers of their sheep over 49,000 acres, and careful husbandry of once degraded and eroded land now adapted to sheep grazing.
The video is engaging, well-presented and illustrative of the appropriate use of high technology and ecological finesse in a specialized niche of agribusiness. Recommended.