The Winona Merino Stud is situated in the Central Tablelands of NSW, Australia. Our Merino Stud has been developed to handle the moderately high rainfall of the region. Although the Winona Stud was only founded in 1949, the Seis family has been continually breeding merino sheep in Australia since 1868.

As a result, Winona has nearly a century and a half and five generations of knowledge and experience to draw upon. It is this background of sheep breeding and husbandry, as well as property management skills that have molded the Winona merino into what it is today.

The Winona merinos are a large sheep that carry heavy cutting bold crimping fine (19 micron) wool. As they are a very commercially profitable sheep they are sold into large areas of Australia including the drier pastoral regions.

The profitability of Winona merinos was clearly shown with recent  wool results. Winona and client's Winona blood ewes averaged 19.4 micron and cut seven kilograms of wool. Wethers consistently cut eight kilograms of 19.8 micron wool.

Recently a bold crimping 17 micron line of wool from ewes selected, by "in-shed" electronic micron testing procedures, achieved better than average prices as compared to traditional super fine wool as well as averaging a wool weight of seven kilograms per animal.

An example of the quality of the rams bred by Winona Merino and Kelpie Studs. Large framed heavy cutting sheep that produce bold crimping 19 micron fine wool.

Sheep of this quality are available for sale all year round at Winona with the rams being an effective method of producing a finer micron wool and retaining the heavy cutting characteristics of the coarser micron merino types.