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Twelve different families, mothering almost 1000 stud ewes annually, to produce true medium wool sheep. |
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Collinsville is run on a commercial basis comprising of 22,000 merino ewes producing 10,000 merino wether lambs |
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Collinsville’s cropping program consists of 3,500 hectares. This consists of wheat, barley, oats, canola, peas and lupins. |
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Irrigation program is run at North Booborowie and is mainly used to background wether lambs coming into the feedlot |
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Expanding operations in agricultural and station areas, and establishing lamb feedlotting for the domestic market |
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Our History The Collinsville tradition began in 1889 with the purchase of 50,000 acres by John Collins and the registration of the stud in 1895 launched a genetic strain which would eventually become the most dominant and successful in the world. Apart from its rule of the Australian gene pool, Collinsville rams have sold to all major wool producing countries around the world including Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, New Zealand, USSR, China, South Africa and the United States. Owned and operated by the Collins family until the mid 1980s, Collinsville has been committed to breeding a large-framed, heavy-cutting sheep that could withstand all elements while achieving high lambing percentages. Its aggregation spreads from the low rainfall salt bush outside country to the rich and fertile lucerne/cropping country of Stud Park and the famous Booborowie Valley properties and it annually sells more than 1000 Merino rams.  This variation of country has given Collinsville the opportunity to lamb stud ewes on both Collinsville itself and the rich inside country to develop the constitution, heavy fleeces and large frames of the Collinsville Merino, considered to be some of the best in the world.Owned by the Handburys, one of Australia's premier rural families, it comprises part of an extensive rural business which includes beef cattle breeding, commercial wool properties and the stud itself. The stud has in excess of 300 active clients and its genetics influence more than 1 million bales of the Australian wool clip. |
