Farmer’s push to return lost CSIRO archives reveals 200 years of merino history
For nine years, sheep farmer Peter Small chased a scientist’s life’s work across the world. Earlier this month, he finally got to open “the box”. Mr Small has relied on the late Australian scientist Harold Burnell Carter’s findings throughout his on-farm career in Coleraine, in Victoria’s south-west. Dr Carter’s research into how the genetic makeup…