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Merino sheep crowd the dusty holding yards on a muted, overcast day in rural New South Wales. A farmer in a vivid blue shirt and straw sun hat carefully guides woolly sheep through the metal loading gates, his movements deliberate and practiced. Bright white and teal Clik animal health product containers stand ready in the foreground, signaling a routine livestock management procedure typical of Australian sheep farming. The landscape stretches out behind the yards - a flat, sparse paddock with distant fence lines and minimal vegetation, revealing the challenging agricultural terrain of the region. Merino sheep, renowned for their fine, dense fleece, huddle together with their characteristic soft grey-white coloration, presenting a textural contrast against the rough wooden yards and compacted earth. This scene captures the essence of pastoral agricultural work - methodical, resilient, and deeply connected to the land, where every action is guided by generations of farming knowledge and careful animal husbandry.