More than just meat to sheep as Canty farm taps into ovine milk

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More than just meat to sheep as Canty farm taps into ovine milk

Reading Time: 5 minutes Joe Catherwood has farmed sheep for meat and wool throughout his farming career. Now the central Canterbury farmer is adding milk to his farm’s output. Catherwood farms 320ha at Charing Cross, Central Canterbury, a property his father purchased in 1953, and which Joe and his brother John took over in 1976. Joe bought John’s share of the farm in 2000. For much of their career they have been clients of PGG Wrightson Wool, …