AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation is standing solid behind former chief executive officer Stuart McCullough’s appointment to a new international role despite already outlaying hundreds of thousands of dollars to overseas marketing advisers…Read More
AGRICULTURE Minister David Littleproud is under fire for potentially politicising a wool ‘thought leader’ roundtable tomorrow by inviting two candidates in the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director election and ignoring the trade…Read More
Terry Sim, October 6, 2021
AN AUTOMATED sheep cradle has been developed to replace the “catch and drag” in the shearing shed – as the industry aims to reduce injuries…Read More
Eric Barker, September 29, 2021
SHEEP producers in the western region of New South Wales are being encouraged to join a small group of like-minded farmers in their local area to participate in a Lifetime Ewe Management course…Read More
Sheep Central, September 29, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has approved an extra $650,000 in funding for a collaborative project with CSIRO to fast-track further investigations into the development of a flystrike vaccine. ..Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 2021
WOOL grower bodies have urged senators to seek a private briefing with Australian Wool Innovation about its online trading and tools platform WoolQ after the company refused to release a key report…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021
A NEW award to encourage emerging talent has been added to the prestigious Helen Newton Turner awards this year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 21, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been condemned for recommending growers support a 2 percent levy in the 2021 WoolPoll ballot, without releasing budgetary, wool price and production projections to support its position…Read More
Terry Sim, July 19, 2021
NEW South Wales wool grower Chick Olsson is running for the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director elections on a pain-free mulesing and AWI reform platform…Read More
Terry Sim, July 9, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation’s new chairman Jock Laurie has highlighted the importance of supply chain transparency while declaring there was not “absolute clarity” in market feedback on mulesing and animal welfare…Read More
Terry Sim, July 7, 2021
HANNATON Merinos stud master Jonno Hicks has seen the value of genetic selection in his stud and commercial flocks after one of the driest seasonal starts on record around Kaniva in Victoria’s west Wimmera region…Read More
Sheep Central, July 7, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation’s new chairman Jock Laurie has confirmed he will contest the 2021 director election…Read More
Terry Sim, July 5, 2021