NON-MULESED Merino wool promotion linking supply with provenance would be a powerful market differentiation tool for Australia’s industry, according to NewMerino owner Peter Vandeleur…Read More
MELBOURNE-BASED Merino mens apparel brand chief executive John Kellett has an eight-point action plan for the nation’s wool industry that includes value-adding, boosting marketing, and refocusing Australian Wool Innovation’s role, activities and levy system…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S wool stockpile could reach 1 million bales next year in a “worst-case scenario” of continued depressed demand, low prices and ongoing withdrawals of growers’ wool from auctions…Read More
Terry Sim, September 9, 2020
NEW South Wales wool grower David Taylor has proposed that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a catalyst for a higher levy to raise Australia’s wool marketing spend and tell all the facets of the good wool story. And Young grower Jim Gordon has responded with a call to drop the current levy further and shrink Australian Wool Innovation’s budget…Read More
Sheep Central, September 2, 2020
NEW Zealand strong wool producers have united in a new group to renew a focus on stimulating consumer-led innovation…Read More
Sheep Central, August 31, 2020
WESTERN Australian farmers remain optimistic about the long-term strength of the wool industry, despite the current challenges of COVID-19 impacting consumer demand and causing market disruption, according to NAB…Read More
Sheep Central, August 21, 2020
GLOBAL consumer demand and Australian flock trends point to a limiting outlook for wool prices and production, according to NAB’s Wool in Focus report released today…Read More
Sheep Central, August 17, 2020
MELBOURNE’S wool auctions have been ordered out of the Brooklyn selling centre as part of Victoria’s Stage Four COVID-19 lockdown…Read More
Terry Sim, August 14, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S shorn wool production dropped by more than 5 percent in 2019-20, but the rate of decline is slowing, according to industry estimates…Read More
Sheep Central, August 14, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S Wool Week events in Victoria’s capital Melbourne have been cancelled as COVID-19 disruptions continued in the state…Read More
Sheep Central, July 6, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S wool production is predicted to drop further to 276 million kilograms next year, with clip recovery expected to be slowed by sheep meat flock and cropping growth, ewe replacement costs and COVID-19 impacts…Read More
Sheep Central, May 1, 2020
PAYMENTS to Australian wool growers from the liquidation of the Graziers’ Investment Company are expected to be made next month…Read More
Terry Sim, February 21, 2020