AUSTRALIA’S online mobile tool for describing and consigning wool clips – WoolClip — has shown it can dramatically increase completion of the important National Wool Declaration…Read More
Sheep Central, November 25, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S peak shearing contractor body has given qualified support to a union proposal for a national industry employer regulator, but rejects a ‘poverty wages’ claim…Read More
Sheep Central, November 22, 2024
NEWLY-MINTED world record holder New South Wales shearer Nikki Lyons believes one day a woman will be crowned the world’s best shearer…Read More
Terry Sim, November 20, 2024
A GALLANT bid to claim New Zealand’s first trans-Tasman machine shearing test win in Australia since 2010 has again fallen short with a defeat by almost 29 points in the series’ 50th anniversary match in Western Australia…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand., October 28, 2024
NEW Zealand’s shearing and wool handling team is gathering in Western Australia this weekend hopeful of a rare clean sweep of the trans-Tasman machine shearing, blade shearing and wool handling..Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, October 25, 2024
DUBBO shearing contractor Steven Mudford became the only person to hold three world shearing record simultaneously when he took the wool off 421 Merino wethers in nine hours on Saturday…Read More
Sheep Central, October 14, 2024
AUSTRALIAN wool growers and brokers were impressed by evidence of increased investment in wool processing in China during a recent Australian Wool Innovation-organised tour by future industry leaders…Read More
Sheep Central, October 9, 2024
WESTERN Australian shearer Danielle Mauger has won the NZ Merino Shears senior shearing title – the third woman to do this in the history of the event…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand., October 7, 2024
DUBBO shearing contractor Steven Mudford will lug out about 30 tonnes of wriggling Merino lambs when he attempts to set a new solo nine-hour shearing record on 12 October near Dubbo this year…Read More
A VETERAN Scottish shearer who is the only woman to qualify in the top 30 at the Golden Shears in Masterton has shattered a world record set by New Zealander Sacha Bond just six months ago…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, August 14, 2024
RURAL entrepreneur Symons has cleared her parent’s five-year stockpile of crossbred fleece near Ellerslie in 12 months with her innovative wool fertilizer pellets…Read More
Terry Sim, August 5, 2024
ENGLISH shearer Nick Greaves has broken a record exclusive to New Zealand for the past 50 years, shearing 764 lambs to set a new world solo eight hour strong wool lamb mark…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, August 5, 2024