The independent review of Australian Wool Innovation invites woolgrowers to have their say on how the organisation performed from 2021-2025.
Danielle Marsland
A peak advocacy body for Australian woolgrowers is continuing to eye additional export markets, completing its third trade delegation to Vietnam in three years.
Rebecca Nadge
The WA College of Agriculture – Morawa recently welcomed two industry experts to deliver an immersive, week-long shearing school for years 10, 11 and 12 students.
York wool classer Jasmine Hauiti is pulling back the wool curtain on life in WA shearing sheds with her hit social media account.
Western Australia’s wool production has dropped yet again, as an updated forecast of shorn wool for the 2025-26 season shows it to be 8.8 per cent lower than the 2024-25 estimate.
Growing up, Shane Argent thought shearers were the “coolest people in the world”. Thirty years on he’s one of them, having done everything from shearing for Andrew Lloyd Webber to running a one-man show.
A Bridgetown Merino fleece consignment is destined for China’s Red Sun Wool Textile Company in Zhejiang, part of the Sunwoo Holding Group that processes 24,000 tonnes of high-quality Merino wool tops each year
Bob Garnant
WA wool producers, who are still regaining their confidence after an uplift in the market, have been left shaken and disappointed by Elders’ decision to pull out of the State’s wool sales.
Georgia Campion
Wool brokers say strong demand from China for our wool has offset any war-related freight disruptions, but question how long China will continue to absorb rising prices
The convener of a national trial that compares the fleece and carcase values of Merino wethers run under the same conditions is bringing the evaluation system to WA.
The Merino industry is showing signs of recovery after a rollercoaster ride on the back of the impending live sheep export ban.
Boyup Brook top gun shearer Luke Harding did not falter with an injury handicap on the boards at Wagin Woolorama, taking out the open clean shearing competition with sheer determination.
The Rintoul family of Tilba Tilba Merino and Poll Merino stud in Williams took out the Grand Champion fleece award at this year’s Wagin Woolorama.
Australian Wool Innovation head of operations Scott Carmody included a visit to Wagin Woolorama to seek out growers’ sentiment as a new momentum gathers with the research and marketing body.
Wagin Woolorama wool section steward Chris Piesse said he predicts that reasonably buoyant pricing right now should result in a good number of fleeces entered into this year’s judging.
Australian Wool Innovation has revealed its new chief executive officer, former wine industry executive Bryan Fry.
WA’s Ethan Harder wins big at world’s richest Quickshear, winning 20K in under 20 seconds.
New AWI chairman wants growers to step up, sell their stories, and have their say. He says the future of wool as a profitable, sustainable industry depends on it.
WA’s wool industry has reached a major digital milestone, with every wool broker and buyer operating in the State now using WoolClip, Australia’s on-farm digital data capture platform.
Cally Dupe
Animal welfare courses designed to benefit all industry people, particularly woolgrowers, shearing contractors and their staff will be made available through Australian Wool Innovation.
Two years after the Federal Government announced its policy to ban the export of live sheep by sea, programs are now coming to fruition for transition support backed by a $139 million package pledge.
Three leading WA consultants have lead discussions towards a starting point of where to next as the State transitions out of the live sheep export industry by sea
The WA Shearing Industry Association kicked off the new year with a general meeting that included the launch of Beyond the Shed.
Shearers in Western Australia will be upskilled and encouraged to explore opportunities beyond the shed under a new program launched in response to the Federal Government’s proposed live sheep export ban.
