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Stock sale

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Stock sale

Lambs are crowded into pens during a stock sale at the Masterton saleyards in 2002. Despite the recent rise of dairying, sheep farming remains the backbone of the region’s pastoral economy.

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Wairarapa Times-Age

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa region – A farming economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12085/stock-sale (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.