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
Bob Garnant
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.
Cally Dupe
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
Hailing from a Mt Barker farm and growing up among livestock, Blake McFarlane has been in shearing sheds all his life.
For Boyup Brook wool handler Mikayla Reihana, being WA’s first female wool harvesting ambassador has granted her the chance to encourage everyone to seize a career in the wool industry.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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