Alexia Phillips has broken the female world record for the most Merino ewes shorn in eight hours shearing 367 head at Spring Valley farm in Darkan on Saturday.
Bob Garnant
A Donate A Bale sale at the Western Wool Selling Centre has raised $30,000 for the Keep the Sheep campaign.
Dongara shearing contractor Mike Henderson, who is well known for his industry leadership, says the Albanese Government has “completely abandoned” Australia’s centuries-old Merino industry.
Fremantle residents are having their say on a $110 million plan to turn the city’s former Elders Wool Stores site into a mixed-use precinct with accommodation, restaurants, and commercial office spaces.
Cally Dupe
Australian Wool Innovation chair Jock Laurie has pre-emptively defended the organisation’s multi-million-dollar marketing budget ahead of strategic planning meetings with industry groups this week.
A collective group of WA wool industry growers, brokers and buyers made a stand against the Albanese Government’s policy to ban the live sheep export trade with wool sale proceeds to fund a leadership change.
New Zealand shearer Alexia Phillips, who is based in WA, will attempt a solo eight-hour women’s Merino ewe shearing world record this month in Darkan.
Australian woolgrowers have been asked to reassess how Australian Wool Innovation spends their levy funds towards achieving a beneficial and profitable impact on the price of wool.
Australia’s peak wool marketing and administration company, the Australian Wool Exchange, has appointed AUS-MEAT for its on-farm audits.
A collective of Western Australian and Eastern States wool industry organisations will auction contributed bales of wool to raise funds for the Keep The Sheep campaign
If you had asked Mark Grave 30 years ago if he would see himself as the CEO of the Australian Wool Exchange, he would have told you “absolutely not”.
Olivia Ford
The Australian wool market has made a “very strong” start to 2025 thanks to a weaker Australian dollar, with buyers stepping up to a relatively large catalogue.
The WA shearing industry will remember Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as the leader who broke the back of the WA wool industry.
The future of WA’s wool harvesting training lies in the balance of Australian Wool Innovation funding cuts.
Australian Wool Exchange chief executive Mark Grave, who retires this year, said the future of the wool industry relies on its integrity, adoption of digital technology, and credentials for traceability.
The WA Shearing Industry Association will hold its annual general meeting on Saturday, January 18, at the Ingot Hotel in Belmont, starting at 9.30am.
The first WA open cry wool sales for this year after a three-week recess began on Tuesday, with about 8900 bales offered in a two-day sale ending on Wednesday.
Five of the WA wool industry’s up and coming stars are starting the new year on a high note after being awarded a $500 scholarship for “outstanding aptitude and ability” in shearing and wool handling.
Australia’s dwindling wool processing industry has taken another hit with Victoria Wool Processors in Melbourne shutting up shop as profits and the number of farmers producing wool continues to decline.
WA’s wool production forecast has been forecast to drop by a massive 10.3 million kilograms, or 18.8 per cent year-on-year, the largest fall nationally.
Woolgrowers’ best course of action to fend off lower fibre prices is to improve farm productivity, according to a prominent market analyst.
WA‘s Merino seedstock ram sale numbers have dropped by more than half in the past two years, causing concern for the flow-on effect to the State’s flock progression.
WA’s $655 million wool industry is facing dramatic price and volume drops as a result of the Albanese Government’s policy to ban live sheep exports, industry leaders say.
WA woolgrowers have been encouraged to lift their traceability tactics as industry aims to be proactive in case of an emergency animal disease outbreak.
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