WA wool production continues to plummet on the back of commodity prices, high input costs and decreasing numbers of sheep shorn across the country.
Melissa Pedelty
A sustainability expert from a leading Australian apparel brand is the latest industry specialist to join a national steering group focused on sustainable sheep production in Australia.
An Australian wool industry expert has released a new newsletter designed to wool classers up-to-date with the latest industry news and information.
Shearing trainers will become the students when a new workshop designed to ensure shearing consistency across the country comes to Narrogin.
Nominations have opened for the 2025 Australian Wool Industry Medal, a prestigious award that recognises people’s “outstanding and lasting” contributions across the wool supply chain.
Bob Garnant
Australia’s wool industry leaders are calling for petition signatures to ensure fair treatment of natural fibres in upcoming European Union textile sustainability policies.
A wool industry leader has said the Prime Minister would be “putting his money where his mouth is” should he emulate the New Zealand Government’s decision to increase wool use in government buildings.
Australia’s wool industry has its sights firmly set on Vietnam as a new market, with a week-long trade delegation recently promoting the fibre’s versatility.
Cally Dupe
Skaters are fighting to save the ‘most important’ section of a world-famous skating ledge from being lost in the face of the long-awaited redevelopment of Fremantle’s historic Elders Wool Stores.
Caitlin Vinci
Broomehill top gun shearer Damien Boyle went one place better at the Williams Gateway Expo shearing competition, and in so doing, he won the open title that eluded him at Wagin Woolorama in March.
The historic French town of Lille will weave a perfect fit between past and present as the venue for the 94th International Wool Congress next month.
Buyers’ appetite for Australian wool will be tested this week, with a smaller national offering and global currency volatility – thanks to Donald Trump - meaning prices could continue to rise.
A fifth-generation wool producer in the Mid West has taken a leap of faith and started up her own luxury clothing brand after noticing a gap in the market.
Bob Garnant & Josephine Hingst
Josephine Hingst
The Australian Merino flock will continue to contract to an unpredicted level but lower supplies from last year’s record lamb turnoff will lift values in both sheep meat and wool
The Stud Merino Breeders’ Association of WA forum, held in conjunction with its annual meeting, brought a crowd of industry people to the new venue at the Aloft Hotel in Perth.
Wickepin Merino seedstock producer Grantly Mullan has taken up the role of Stud Merino Breeders’ Association of WA president after immediate former president Michael Campbell stepped down.
A new research study has hammered home the long-held beliefs that wool is more odour resistant and saves consumers money by needing less washing compared to synthetic fibres.
The Stud Merino Breeders’ Association of WA has extended an open invitation to its Merino Forum on Friday, March 21, at the Aloft Hotel in Rivervale at 3pm.
It was a woolly great Wagin Woolorama with the woollen fashion brand Swoolly by Scanlan, based in O’Connor, dressing the fashion parade models with the glamour of natural fibre.
Boyup Brook top gun shearer Luke Harding took out the open clean shearing competition at Wagin Woolorama, his fifth title at the iconic sheep and wool show.
Wagin Woolorama showcased a brilliant line-up of Merino fleeces that were resilient to last year’s tough growing season.
Yealering contract shearer Tristan White hopes to use his role as a Wool Harvesting Ambassador to encourage everyone to have “a good go” in the wool industry and to promote more training for shearers.
Olivia Ford
One of Dairy Australia’s long-standing bosses will take the reins at Australian Wool Exchange in June, replacing retiring chief executive Mark Grave after more than two decades.
Cally Dupe and Bob Garnant
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