Rosedale is located on 530 hectares (1300 acres) of Waikaka's rolling hills in Southland, New Zealand.
Our farm
Situated midway between the Blue Mountains and the Hokonui Hills 60 kms north of Invercargill. 7500 stock units are farmed including 2000 stud ewes and replacements. The climate is temperate with an annual rainfall of 1000mm.
After graduating with a B.Com. (Agriculture), Donald Morrison spent 4 years working in London financial markets before returning in 1990 to farm the Rosedale property with his father George. Donalds brother Andrew joined them in 1992 and a period of business growth followed where the original Rosedale property grew from 4000su to 15000su with the purchase of the neighbouring Grand View, Valley View, Elmsligh and Browns farms along with the 1500 acre Glenroy Station at Clinton.
Operations were split between Donald and Andrew in 2012 with the original Rosedale property now including the Grand View and Browns property.
““Growbulk lambs were heavier, higher grading and yielded more, better body shape and more profit”
We buy in all our ewe replacements and mate them to terminal Sires, selling all our lambs. We’ve used Rosedale Growbulk Rams for 3 years, measuring performance against our traditional Terminal rams. The Growbulk lambs are heavier, higher grading and yield more. Better body shape and more profit. We will be using all Growbulk rams
this year. Common sense farming.
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What We've Achieved
No. 1 NZ rank for Lamb Survival
since 2003 measuring Lamb Viability at Birth.Glammies Winner
and 3 times finalist in New Zealand’s Tastiest Lamb
since 2012.SILACE as Trait Leader
for Dual Purpose Meat Yield.
- Plan B People & Planet
We now offer a 5% donation from all rams sold to a charity, school, sports club, etc of your choice. 400 sale ram hoggets
tested with 5K SNP Chip(inc Myomax and Loinmax muscling genes.