Registration Assures Trisolfen Supply

IN WHAT is being called a ground- breaking step in animal welfare, Trisolfen’s registration by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Association (APVMA) on December 14 will provide a much needed supply guarantee for wool producers...

Trisolfen Tipped for Registration

IN A world first, pain relief treatment Trisolfen - an Australian innovation - is tipped to be registered by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) this week...

Campaign for Wool - Wool Week UK 2011

Over 350 people at the opening of Wool Modern including celebrities and fashion icons (Colin Firth, Livia Firth, Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Bailey, Jeremy Hackett, Lily Cole, and more) ...

How To Vote For AWI Board Elections

The Australian Woolgrowers Association (AWGA) encourages and suggests woolgrowers consider voting for AWI board directors in the following way, owing to the somewhat confusing nature of the AWI proxy form...

McBride's AWI election platform launched.

My family have been growing wool for 90 years. I am a passionate believer in the future of our industry and our growers. Whilst I have a passion for wool, I also bring vital skills in economics and finance, with 10 years experience both in Australia and overseas.

There are six fundamental elements of our industry that must be safeguarded or improved by Australian Wool Innovation: ..

Get ready for flystrike

SHEEP producers were this week warned to rotate fly chemical usage and follow label instructions as the first reports of flystrike come in.

After a New South Wales report of suspected fly resistance to the chemicals cyromazine and dicyclanil, at a Department of Primary Industries flystrike workshop at Coleraine DPI sheep medicine project leader Robert Suter said if farmers believed they had any issues with fly control chemicals they should contact the chemical company...

Woolly campaign to warm homeless

AUSSIE woolgrowers who donated handfuls of wool to make a few suits for Prince William will be asked to give bales of wool to make blankets for homeless city folk.The homeless people of Sydney would all be wrapped in a woollen blankets this winter if woolgrower’s daughter Haylee Olsson had her way.

And the 21-year-old media studies student and daughter of former Australian Wool Innovation director Chick Olsson is working on it...

Livestock Health & Pest Authority (LHPA)

The Australian Wool Growers Association was formed in 1996 to represent woolgrowers and be a strong and independent voice. AWGA is unique among farmer representative organisations as it has a “wool and sheep only” focus.

AWGA is widely regarded as being involved in the sweeping reforms in the wool industry between 1998 and 2001, which led to the creation of...

AWGA welcomes new director, Robert Ingram

The Australian Woolgrowers Association has appointed new directors, recently appointing Victorian based woolgrower Mr Robert Ingram.

Massy praises the merino

The author of Australia's definitive work on merino sheep says it deserves more recognition for its contribution to Australia's economy and development.

Australian woolgrowers have proven they are world leaders in animal welfare

While longer term breeding programs are under way, more farmers are using pain relief at mulesing to reduce the impact of flystrike on productivity, profit and animal welfare. Last month, the number of wool bales offered originating from sheep treated with pain relief increased by 70% on previous year (see Figure 1)...

Pain management adoption on Australian sheep farms

Whilst growing up in Wagga in the 50's and 60's, I was confronted by what I later came to think of as the big 4 in sheep welfare concerns in Australia, being footrot, flystrike, mulesing and rubber ring castration...

Bright future for wool, says Zegna

The chairman of an iconic retail company with 550 stores around the world, and a major buyer of super fine Australian wool, is upbeat about the future of the wool industry.