Australian Wool Innovation’s new businessman-turned-farmer chair George Millington has assured WA woolgrowers they will be equally represented as he takes the reins.
Cally Dupe
Australian Wool Innovation’s three preferred candidates have been appointed to the board after what its outgoing chair said could be a “brutal” but important election process.
Farmers have been urged to stick with wool through “challenging times” as the industry grapples with low prices, global market volatility, and pressure on growers to diversify.
Wool now ranks among the top three most desirable fabrics in the fashion and sportswear worlds as consumers “increasingly reject synthetic fibres” and embrace more sustainable materials.
Friends and fellow shearers are coming together to honour Hamish Wills — a much-loved character of the sheds — with a memorial quick shear at his favourite local, Marri Park Tavern.
Italy’s major wool stakeholders — including its leading luxury brands — have thrown their support behind the Australian Wool Sustainability Scheme, labelling the most superior of its kind in the world
WA shearers and woolclassers wanting to hone their skills have just one more chance to do so before Christmas, with plans for a one-day workshop in Boyup Brook.
WA wool sector is seeing a notable shift towards broader Merino fleece, as stronger prices and improved seasonal conditions encourage growers to release stock and bring forward shearing.
Australia’s wool market is expected to hold steady into early November after four weeks of consecutive losses, as industry waits for stronger market signals and changes to the Aussie dollar ahead of Christmas.
Veteran shearer Darren Spencer is stepping back from the handpiece and his role role as president of the WA Shearing Industry Association.
Cally Dupe and Melissa Pedelty
Aussie farmers are being offered fresh financial incentives to certify their wool clips under sustainability programs, as AWEX launches a new rebate designed to lift participation in accredited schemes.
When a shearer heard of several deaths across her industry, she knew she had to start making mental health a priority in the nation's wool sheds.
Stephanie Gardiner
A major industry group has endorsed two of the three board candidates recommended by Australian Wool Innovation, while calling for an urgent shift in the organisation’s culture and direction.
Western Australia bore the brunt of a sharp downturn in the Australian wool market last week, with Fremantle posting the highest pass-in rate nationally at 32 per cent.
WA-raised female gun shearer Nikki Lyons has set new shearing world record while wearing her favourite fabric of all time — wool.
The Australian Wool Innovation board has thrown its support behind three candidates recommended by the independent Board Nomination Committee, ahead of next month’s board elections.
A study tour to China has left Kojonup wool grower Emily Stretch in awe of the enormous wool supply chain and inspired on smarter industry innovation.
Georgia Campion
Broomehill shearer Damien Boyle took out his 26th Perth Royal open shearing title as he battled it out on the boards against a field of WA’s best on the WA Competitive Shearing Association’s circuit.
Bob Garnant
A “unique” three-year national project to support Australian sheep producers for a changing climate future and the demand to meet green credential demand will begin next year
Australia’s sheep and wool industries are forming a united front for form their first strategy for the two sectors to maintain profitability and resiliency as hurdles arise.
WA farmers are netting wool prices nearly 20 per cent higher than this time last year, as the Western Market Indicator surges to 1480c/kg — its highest level in 2.5 years.
The Australian wool industry is celebrating a milestone: one million bales now processed through WoolClip
Melissa Pedelty
WA-based researcher Kelsey Pool is taking the decades old concept of biological defleecing and putting a modern medical spin on it in a bid to provide producers with alternative options for fleece removal.
Biological wool harvesting continues to be supported by industry as an alternative wool harvesting solution, with several studies in full-swing and becoming increasingly viable
