Paul and Bateson Pittman win the Australian Fleece Competition | Stock & Land - video Dailymotion

Glenburnie Merino and Poll Merino stud won the top prize.

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00:00So our fleece here, this is our champion, is of super fine quality. It has the characteristics

00:07of a high-end European top wool. It has outstanding length of 100 millimetres long,

00:1350 newtons per gildex per sound. Our breeding objective is to have high quality

00:20wools that fit that European market, but also to increase our cut. And this particular mule has

00:26nine kilos of skirted wool, of super fine wool, which is certainly the heaviest producing newt

00:33that we've ever had. Mixed with the quality that's there is something we're certainly striving to

00:39do. It's a soft pole newt that we've sort of started our pole family 10 years ago, so it's

00:44exciting that these genetics are now coming to fruition. We're really starting to see some great

00:49results, so I'm very excited to win this. I've been coming here for over 15 years as a onlooker,

00:57and always admired the fleece show. It's probably the best in the country, I think.

01:02The amount of fleeces and the high quality of studs that the producers show their wool here,

01:07so it's very exciting for us to win this. It's absolutely a labour for the people.