Smithfield farmer Elmarie van Aswegen made history when she exported 50 of her carefully chosen dairy ewes to Angola this week. They represent her life's work, she says, and much time, love, effort, tears and happiness. Elmarie, of Patria farm outside Smithfield, recently told Farmer's Weekly about the long journey she's made from being a civil servant to the specialist breeder of dairy sheep: Awassi rams for Free State milk sheep flock ~ By Mike Burgess ~ For Elmarie van Aswegen, returning to the family farm, Patria, near Smithfield in the Free State in early 1997 went hand in...Read more