AUSTRALIAN wool growers are being called on to make last-minute submissions to consultation on proposed European product environment footprint labelling rules for apparel and footwear that would favour synthetic over woollen garments…Read More
Terry Sim, April 26, 2024
AUSTRALIAN wool growers might vote for a reduced levy for research, development and marketing this year if the proposed biosecurity protection levy was introduced, a Senate committee inquiry was told yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, April 24, 2024
A PROJECT aimed at redesigning training programs for shearers, wool classers and shed hands will hold in-person consultation workshops across Australia next month…Read More
Sheep Central, April 24, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S proposed wool traceability hub is aiming to achieve mandatory Property Identification Code declaration by all wool growers to facilitate an efficient emergency animal disease response…Read More
Terry Sim, April 22, 2024
REVAMPED wool integrity program – the Australian Wool Sustainability Scheme – could help increase world demand for the natural fibre, according to a European top maker…Read More
AUSTRALIA’S raw wool output is forecast to fall this year to 324 million kilograms, with shorn production expected to drop in all states except New South Wales and South Australia…Read More
Sheep Central, April 15, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry has allowed the nation’s wool grower levy funded body to change the scope of a high priority performance review recommendation on consumer attitudes to mulesed wool, denying growers key market knowledge…Read More
Terry Sim, April 3, 2024
VICTORIAN ultrafine wool producers Aaron and Rebecca Rowbottom have won the prestigious Zegna Vellus Aureum Trophy for the first time with a 10.1 Merino wether fleece…Read More
Sheep Central, March 20, 2024
PREMIER superfine wool aggregation Avington in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges has been sold to the Southern Pastoral Group for $35 million…Read More
Terry Sim, March 6, 2024
AUSTRALIA’s Merino sheep industry needs to demonstrate continuous improvement to regain the acres lost to cropping and other commodities, growers were told at a Balmoral Breeders sire evaluation field day at Austral Park, near Tarranlea in western Victoria on Friday…Read More
Terry Sim, March 4, 2024
VICTORIAN sheep producer, former garment processor and industry educational leader Peter Small shares his impressions of the Balmoral Breeders sire evaluation field day in western Victoria on Friday. ..Read More
Peter Small, March 4, 2024
SHEEP industry analyst Robert Herrmann will put the case to make the Merino wool industry great again at the Balmoral Breeders Sire Evaluation Field Day in western Victoria on Friday…Read More
Sheep Central, February 28, 2024
