Australian wool growers meet the market as fleece prices lift
SHEEP CENTRAL – “MORE Australian wool growers met the market this week as Merino and crossbred fleece prices improved.”
Melbourne wool auctions told to go ‘remote’ in COVID-19 lockdown
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “MELBOURNE’S wool auctions have been ordered out of the Brooklyn selling centre as part of Victoria’s Stage Four COVID-19 lockdown.”
Wool production estimate for 2020-21 lifted slightly
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIA’S shorn wool production dropped by more than 5 percent in 2019-20, but the rate of decline is slowing, according to industry estimates.”
Australia’s wool industry needs to market innovative products
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “CREATING and marketing innovative woollen products is the way forward for Australia’s struggling wool industry, according to leading textile consultant Jimmy Jackson.”
Pandemic prompts sheep and cattle sales to move online
ABC – AM with Sabra Lane, Linda Mottram – by Bridget Fitzgerald – “There has been a spike in livestock and wool sales moving online as farmers adapt to crowd limits and restricted movement during the Coronavirus pandemic.”
Rain & wool the order of Long Wool Day
COUNTRYMAN – by Bob Garnant – “Those attending Narrogin’s Long Wool Day on Friday, August 14 were all keen for a good drenching of rain to turn the dry season around.”
Covid-19 restrictions force open-cry wool auctions to temporarily cease
FARM ON LINE – by Kristen Frost – “Open-cry wool auctions have been temporarily ceased at Melbourne due to Covid-19 stage four restrictions.”
$60,000 for wool handling schools in Glen Innes
GLEN INNES EXAMINER – by Hannah Frost – “Glen Innes wool handling schools have received a $60,000 State Government grant.
The recent COVID-19 restrictions on travel have caused shortages of shearers in parts of rural NSW. Regional Development Australia (RDA) is working to ‘muster’ the next generation of shed workers.”
Shearing shed upgrade is worker and animal friendly
NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER – by Joely Mitchell – “A NSW wool grower has built a new state of the art shearing shed to benefit his operation and the overall longevity of the industry.”
Prices up for 80% of wool on offer at Australian auctions
FIBRE2FASHION – “The Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) showed a market in retraction by dropping 2ac to 1004ac clean kg, but in reality, over 80 per cent of the wool on offer increased in value at the Australian auctions this week. Thus, a better wool market greeted grower sellers this week, with a more appropriate volume of wool put up for sale relative to current demand.”
