24/06/2008 | Merino breeders will have a rare chance to hear about the on-farm impacts of the mulesing debate, sheep benchmarking and genomics, and what their customers want, at a one-off information day at Conargo in southern NSW on August 8.
9/06/2008 | The world’s foremost education resource on the sheep and wool industry is now publicly available
9/06/2008 | An innovative collection of men’s clothing made from quality Australian Merino wool is set to tap into the burgeoning Japanese demand for green products.
5/06/2008 | THE FIRST real market test for unmulesed wool has not delivered a premium.
Elders this week held its much-anticipated online auction of unmulesed wool but relative to last week’s market it failed to excite.
5/06/2008 | ANOTHER freak ram is giving dedicated woolgrowers hope in the hunt for a genetic solution to mulesing.
While some breeders say wool cut and quality may have to be compromised when breeding for a bare breech, others strongly disagree.
2/06/2008 | Sonia Rykiel has been announced as the official patron of the Australian Merino Woolmark Prize launching in Paris, July 2008.
21/05/2008 | THE Managing Director of Australia’s largest wool exporting companies Lempriere, has urged Tasmanian wool producers to commit their wool to the Roberts Wool Link (RWL) marketing programme or risk damaging established relationships with innovative wool customers.
9/05/2008 | The latest edition of the long running and respected Merino Superior Sires has just been released by the
Australian Merino Sire Evaluation Association (AMSEA) and includes progeny testing results from some of
Australia’s top Merino rams entered in any one of the 14 sire evaluation sites around Australia.
8/05/2008 | PETA has put a new mulesing peace deal on the table. The animal rights group’s three-point plan is being taken seriously by wool leaders and offers hope of an end to the four-year-long crisis.
8/05/2008 | THE inaugural $10,000 JB Fairfax Scholarship for Rural Journalism was launched this week by the NSW Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) Foundation.
7/05/2008 | WoolProducers president Don Hamblin has labelled PETA’s new peace offering as “nonsense.
1/05/2008 | AGAINST the global trend of wool processing closures in recent years, the former Geelong Wool Combing plant is alive again.
Its reincarnation is in the form of a joint venture with Chinese corporate giant Nanshan on the Shandong Peninsula in the north east of China.
1/05/2008 | OUTGOING Australian Wool Innovation chairman Ian McLachlan says he’s not leaving industry a poison chalice to deal with on mulesing.
1/05/2008 | THE wool market is turning south after a prolonged period of buoyancy.
But analysts say prices won’t drop off a cliff – some are tipping the slide could end only about $1 below current levels – and there’s still scope to lock in prices above 1100 cents a kilogram for finer wool types for much of 2008.