As many sheep producers make the jump into shedding breeds or leave the industry entirely, Cootamundra's Hardie brothers are instead going full-steam ahead into Merinos.

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Hardie Pastoral Company's Grahame, Alex and Berkely Hardie, along with their families and parents, Steven and Louanda, have always run a prime lamb enterprise, but are now in the process of phasing out their crossbreds to instead build a self-replacing Merino base.

Alex Hardie said they had been buying in Merinos to put to Kelso rams to produce first-cross ewes.

While the crossbred ewes had g

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