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Maremmas deal with fox losses at Cunderdin

5:00 AM | WITH wild dog and fox attacks on the rise, wool producers are taking matters into their own hands and fighting fire with fire.

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Tea tree the good oil

11 Feb 12 | NEW research indicating oil from the Australian native tea tree is effective in treating flystrike and lice infestations in sheep could provide wool producers with a natural insecticide to which lice are unlikely to be able to develop any immunity.

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Sticking to Merinos pays off

10 Feb 12 | THE challenge of breeding good Merinos has always stuck with Barry Carruthers, who enjoys producing sheep that consistently grow “good genuine medium wool fleeces”, soft handling and plenty of it.

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Wool research makes carbon headway

09 Feb 12 | A COLLECTIVE of woolgrowers, scientists and carbon specialists known as the Wool Carbon Alliance (WCA) has reviewed the latest research on wool’s role in the natural carbon cycle, from woolgrowing properties to homes around the globe. | $A not deterring wool buyers | Aussie wool production up again ...

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Katanning wool testing bonus for growers

08 Feb 12 | WITH the recent purchase of a four-tube Jetco automatic wool coring machine, Westcoast Wools hopes to offer South West woolgrowers the only WA wool testing site outside the Perth metropolitan area.

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Aussie wool production up again in 2011/12

08 Feb 12 | THE latest forecast for shorn wool production in Australia in 2011/12, which was released in late December, indicates that production will increase in 2011/12, but by less than previously expected.

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$A not deterring wool buyers

07 Feb 12 | IT WAS an uneventful week in wool, in Australian currency with little change, however in US dollars prices were more volatile.

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Latest wool offering modest: AWEX

04 Feb 12 | IT WAS a reasonably small offering this week (for this time of the year) with just over 37,000 bales offered nationally over two selling days.

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Wool off to buoyant but cautious start

03 Feb 12 | DEMAND for wool is looking up if the feedback from recent European and North American textile and clothing trade shows are anything to go by. | Chance find sheds light on ... | China deal major 'coup' for ...

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Wild dog control is proving possible

01 Feb 12 | FARMING communities in remote areas of South Australia and Queensland are showing how headway against the massive problem of wild dogs is possible. |

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China deal major 'coup' for Aussie wool growers

30 Jan 12 | ONE of China's biggest textile processors, Shandong Ruyi, has outlaid a substantial investment into the Australian ultrafine wool industry. |

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Chance find sheds light on woolly past

28 Jan 12 | THE expression "one person's trash is another person's treasure" was apt when Tully resident Debbie Watt rang the North Queensland Register office recently with the news she had found something she thought might be of great interest to the paper.

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Broader wools shine at Heimtextil

27 Jan 12 | AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation (AWI) and Woolmark licensees have reported strong interest in broader wool products at Heimtextil, the world’s largest trade fair for home textiles. | Finewool potential at Bathurst | Slow days ahead for wool

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Wool market eases slightly in second week

27 Jan 12 | AFTER the wool market's positive opening performance last week, the second week of sales saw a slight easing.

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Slow days ahead for wool

24 Jan 12 | THE Chinese New Year holiday is now underway - relatively early this year - resulting in a shut down for the wool industry in China for well over a week. | Chinese want slice of rural ... | Wool market down

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Finewool potential at Bathurst

24 Jan 12 | ONE of the first properties on offer in the new year offers substantial potential as a finewool production enterprise and comes with excellent infrastructure, making the transition for new owners an easy task.

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