A New Zealand livestock genetics company is expecting to increase its exports of sheep and embryos to Australia as farmers there look for stock that can do well in drought conditions.
Focus Genetics has airfreighted another 100 of its Primera and Highlander rams across the Tasman, the third shipment in the past year.
Altogether it has sent about 300 rams to Australia and recently exported 1300 embryos there.
Focus Genetics' animal breeding specialist Daniel Absolom says Australian demand for the composite breeds it has developed has been than higher it expected.
Mr Absolom says Focus Genetics is also building up a trade in cattle semen and embryos to Australia.
