About
Our farm
We are a family farming enterprise that has been operating in our district for over 100 years. Trevor and Linda Rissmann are the third generation of Rissmanns on Rosedale. Currently working alongside them is one of their four sons, Alan. He is married to Kaylee and they now have 2 young farmers in training. Trevor and Alan have dirt in their blood and are particularly mad about sheep and wool!
Click for our breeding philosophy
Rosedale is located in Southeast Queensland, about 45km East of Goondiwindi and slightly north of the Qld/NSW border. It has around 24" (600mm) average rainfall, with nearly 2/3 of the rainfall between October and March.
It is hot in summer with days that are regularly in the high 30's, and reaching tops of up to 45℃. We have periods where it doesn't drop below 30℃ even at night. In combination with high humidity, this environment places a lot of selection pressure on maintaining bright, white wool.
Winters are cold with regular frosts. Our sheep have resilient and hardy constitutions to survive and thrive with minimal inputs. Sheep at Rosedale have the ability to put on fat cover when the going is good, and make effective use of dry, low protein grasses for extended periods. They have outstanding wool character and fleece qualities that resist fly strike and fleece rot without being mulesed.
We try to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ in both our lives and business, "love your neighbor as yourself". We want to deal with integrity and will always try to do right by you.
Again, we love to talk sheep so do not hesitate to give us a call!
Becoming a non mulesed merino stud
In 2018, Errol Brumpton started dispersing his Well Gully Poll Merino Stud. We purchased the entire first draft of his dispersal sale, which consisted of every stud ewe and stud sire that was 3 years old and older. As a result, we had nearly 1600 pregnant stud ewes and 60 sires arrive on Rosedale in September and November of 2018.
By the end of 2018, we had over 3300 Well Gully ewes, rams and lambs living here.
In 2020, Errol dispersed the remainder of the flock into nearly every state in Australia, leaving us with the only significant portion of the Well Gully Poll Merino Stud. We continued to work under Errol's guidance, and seek to build and improve the legacy left behind by him.
Well Gully is renowned for having lustrous white, silky soft wools on an animal bred to thrive. The sheep are long and deep bodied, have a deep twist in the rump, and never need mulesing. We are convinced they will add profit to any sheep enterprise. If you want to breed easy-to-manage sheep with all these qualities, then we would encourage you to check out and try these rams in your own flocks.