04 Jul Trigger Vale & MLA Sustainability and Best Practice Case Study

For sheep seedstock producer Andrew Bouffler, it was his Nuffield Scholarship, investigating the priorities of international markets for Australian wool and sheepmeat that reinforced in his breeding priorities and a stronger focus on animal health and welfare traits.

Andrew and Mandi Bouffler own and operate ‘Trigger Vale Sheep Studs’, a Poll Merino dual purpose and White Suffolk seedstock operation outside Lockhart in southern NSW.

Andrew explains the scholarship reinforced his breeding priorities of a dual purpose, high growth, high fertility, polled and mules-free animal and has delivered many benefits, including impressive productivity gains, an easier to manage flock and significant price premiums for their wool.