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ISSUE 96 / September 2023
Shearer & Wool Handler Training
Articles in this edition include: Maximising both business and environmental returns; Filling the feed gap with shrub systems; Resources available to get prepared for flystrike season; Wool helps you stay ‘cool under pressure’; The Wool Lab sourcing guide helps build demand for wool; All-day comfort with Au Natural wool underwear; Market intelligence report: Australian wool export destinations; Market insights: M&S, a long-promised fashion revival?; Use the NWD so your wool attracts the highest price... and much more.
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ON-FARM
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AWI working for woolgrowers
AWI CEO John Roberts provides readers with an overview of how AWI is undertaking R&D and marketing to address some of the key issues faced by Australian woolgrowers.
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ON-FARM
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Shearer & Wool Handler Training
AWI funds hands-on, practical, in-shed training for shearers and wool handlers across the country to attract and retain new entrants into the wool harvesting industry, build the capacity and longevity of existing staff, and increase returns to woolgrowers through improved clip preparation practices.
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ON-FARM
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Building biodiversity & natural capital
The Farming for the Future program recently issued five case studies of woolgrowers that are managing investment in their property’s natural capital (environmental assets such as soil, water and vegetation) in a way that maximises both business prosperity and environmental returns including biodiversity.
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ON-FARM
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Filling the feed gap with shrub systems
A four-year project run by CSIRO and funded by AWI and Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has demonstrated to sheep and wool producers how new shrub systems can make unproductive agricultural land more profitable.
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ON-FARM
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Be prepared for flystrike season
As we head into flystrike season, now is the time to implement your annual flystrike management plan. Early prevention of flystrike is key to minimising animal welfare and economic threats. The resources in the AWI Flystrike Extension Program are available to help woolgrowers tackle this significant sheep health and welfare issue.
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OFF-FARM
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Wool helps you stay ‘cool under pressure’
A new AWI-funded study run by the University of Adelaide has shown that people wearing wool perform better during cognitively stressful tasks than those wearing synthetics.
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The Wool Lab helps build demand for wool
The Wool Lab is a premier sourcing guide to the world’s best commercially available wool fabrics and yarns. Since its inaugural edition twelve years ago, it has become an important tool for the global textile industry and is helping to build the demand and use of Australian wool globally.
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OFF-FARM
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All-day comfort with Au Natural underwear
American brand Au Natural has partnered with The Woolmark Company to develop and launch the first Woolmark-certified underwear in the US. Merino wool’s natural benefits provide the underwear with comfort and wearability across all the day’s activities, from the office to the gym and beyond.
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OFF-FARM
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M&S: a long-promised fashion revival?
AWI Global Strategic Advisor Peter Ackroyd reports on an upturn in the fashion business of major British multinational retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S), which will likely benefit woolgrowers. Mr Ackroyd is a former President of the International Wool Textile Organisation and is Chief Operating Officer of the Campaign for Wool.
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OFF-FARM
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Use the NWD to attract the highest price
All woolgrowers are being urged to complete the National Wool Declaration (NWD), as wool sold as Not Declared usually receives a discount. The NWD provides transparency to buyers and the whole supply chain and helps woolgrowers earn Premiums and/or avoid Discounts for their wool.
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Australian Wool Innovation's quarterly Beyond the Bale magazine is published to ensure wool levy payers are:
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- made aware of marketing initiatives and activities to increase the demand for Australian wool
- provided with information on new products and practices to improve on-farm productivity and profitability – in areas such as pastures and grazing, sheep health, genetic technologies to breed more productive sheep, and shearing.
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