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Dusty golden light bathes a West Australian sheep yard where two farm workers carefully draft a flock of dense-wooled Merino sheep. The expansive rural landscape stretches behind them, a patchwork of silvery-green eucalyptus trees and undulating paddocks under a pale blue sky. A worker in a high-visibility yellow safety shirt stands on the metal yard railings, strategically guiding the woolly animals through precision gates, while another worker in a light neutral shirt assists from an adjacent section. The sheep, packed tightly in the metal-railed yards, display the characteristic thick, crinkled fleece of Merino breed - their beige and cream wool creating a textural carpet across the holding pens. This is a quintessential moment of Australian agricultural practice, capturing the methodical work of livestock management with the rugged pastoral landscape as a backdrop. The metal yards gleam with industrial precision against the soft organic textures of sheep and surrounding bushland, representing the careful balance between human intervention and natural agricultural systems.