The Kember family runs a mixed farming enterprise of 4720 acres (1910ha)

In addition to “Gleneith Park” stud property. Enterprises run on the property include cereal and pulse cropping, hay making and livestock production.

Livestock enterprises include beef cattle, a small piggery and both 1 st X and 2 nd X production systems. Riverina breed merino ewes are used for the 1 st X breeding system because they provide the ideal style of ewe from which to breed the 1 st X, large long bodied ewes with a large fleece of medium wool type.

The 1 st X breeding enterprise consists of approximately 1200 merino ewes with lambing % of over 100%. 1 st X ewe lambs are kept and marketed at the Narrandera Special Sale in the 3 rd week of September each year, with some replacements retained for our own 1 st X ewe flock. 1 st X wether lambs are sold at 10 months, export weights either over the hook or through the sale yard system.

Our prime lamb operation consists of approximately 360 1 st X ewes retained from our own breeding program. These ewes are joined to Poll Dorset rams that are in the top 25% terminal sires as ranked by Lambplan.Lambing % of over 130% is common in this enterprise.

A percentage of lambs are usually sold as suckers with the remainder held and sold at export weights, much the same as the 1 st X system