ADOPTION of key traceability efficiency tools available to wool growers, exporters and brokers remains incomplete in the Australian wool industry despite market feedback of other countries’ pre-eminence…Read More
A NEW Zealand-South African partnership has set a new world two-stand shearing record of 970 fine wool Merino lambs in nine hours in South Africa…Read More
Sheep Central, April 24, 2025
TASMANIA’S Victoria Lang has won the prestigious 2025 AWEX/TAFE NSW National Graduate Wool Classer Competition to take home the coveted ‘golden stencil’ from the Sydney Royal Easter Show…Read More
Sheep Central, April 23, 2025
A RECORD-BREAKING New Zealand shearer and a South African who took to shearing after being ruled out of rugby by a severe injury are this week tackling what is the first world shearing record in South Africa in 19 years…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, April 22, 2025
WOOLPRODUCERS Australia has repeated its call for funding for a wool trade policy office after a recent tour to explore and highlight industry innovation and developments in Vietnam…Read More
Sheep Central, April 17, 2025
OVERSEAS sheep shearers have been granted non-visa access to the United Kingdom in 2025 in a special concession from the Minister for Migration and Citizenship…Read More
Sheep Central, April 16, 2025
A SMALL central North Island town with a population of barely 1000 and a grandstand that holds 2-300 people has been the scene of another Welsh shearing test match demise…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, March 19, 2025
AUSTRALIA’S top sheep shearers have reigned supreme over New Zealand in the latest trans-Tasman test event at the Golden Shears in Masterton, New Zealand, on Saturday night…Read More
Sheep Central, March 3, 2025
NEW Zealand shearer Alexia ‘Lexi’ Phillips has become the latest world record holder after an official tally of 367 Merino ewes in eight hours in a West Australian wool shed on Saturday…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, February 24, 2025
WESTERN Victorian wool entrepreneur Sherri Symons is among three women named as state finalists for the 2025 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award…Read More
Sheep Central, February 11, 2025
NEW Zealand shearer Jack Fagan has picked up world shearing’s richest cash prize in a lightning trans-Tasman trip to win the Oberon Quick Shear in New South Wales at the weekend…Read More
Guest Author, February 10, 2025
SOUTHERN Wimmera Merino breeder Warren Russell will maintain a diversified studstock, wool, prime lamb and cropping operation to maintain the flock despite current low wool prices…Read More
Terry Sim, January 29, 2025