AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation plans to form an international natural fibre coalition to ensure plant and animal fibres are not harmed under the European Union’s Product Environmental Footprint Scheme…Read More
Sheep Central, March 31, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been grilled over its 2019 board election nomination process and a claim of agri-political activity, at a Senate Estimates hearing yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, March 24, 2021
MORE than 300 industry stakeholders worldwide registered for the inaugural Trust in Australian Wool campaign launch last night…Read More
A VICTORIAN-BASED sheep shearer trainer and trainee program was helping to solve the industry’s national labour shortage and providing a model for collaborative training in other sectors…Read More
Terry Sim, March 10, 2021
PEAK wool grower body WoolProducers Australia will launch a ‘Trust in Australian Wool’ campaign on 18 March complete with its own handbook, interactive website, and links to other sites and resources…Read More
Terry Sim, March 5, 2021
WOMEN in Wool will be celebrated with a special International Women’s Day Zoom conference this week. The second annual Women in Wool conference to be held online on 5 March..Read More
Terry Sim, March 1, 2021
A LEGO woolshed has put Tahara’s Angus Dohle on the path to recognition as a designer, but he needs the help of every Sheep Central reader and their friends. After..Read More
Terry Sim, February 22, 2021
NOMINATIONS have opened for the 2021 Australian Wool Industry Medal, but the continuing COVID-19 pandemic is preventing presentations for all the 2020 winners from proceeding…Read More
Sheep Central, February 15, 2021
RURAL Bank remains positive about Australian lamb, sheep and wool prices for this year, with some qualifications on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer demand…Read More
Sheep Central, February 8, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S sheep producers have been urged to look out for the annual wool and sheep meat survey in their ‘snail mail’…Read More
Sheep Central, February 1, 2021
NO lice treatments for 10 years, no footrot and no Ovine Johne’s Disease risk — strict biosecurity has had to production advantages and reinforced the social licence of Finnigan Merino..Read More
Terry Sim, November 30, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S prestigious annual superfine fleece competition will be open to all producers this year…Read More
Sheep Central, October 5, 2020