Displaying items by tag: wool

Sheep farmers and shearing contractors are urging Government to immediately allow experienced shearers into the country.

Paul Alston believes that when comparing wool and synthetic carpets, wool wins every time.

With safety at the forefront of all farm activity, there is no better time than now to assess the safety in your shearing shed.

Drought has contributed to New Zealand’s sheep flock falling over the past year.

Strong wool growers wanting to introduce merino genetics, to take advantage of more lucrative fine wool prices, can now do so with confidence.

A meat industry-dominated group has formed to carry out the recommendations of the Wool Industry Project Action Group report and is ready to lead that change.

Two wool companies, that handle around one-third of NZ’s strong wool clip between them, are looking to join together in an effort to rejuvenate the country’s struggling wool sector.

A Lincoln-based wool products company believes it offers a glimmer of hope against the increasing negativity currently saturating New Zealand’s strong wool industry.

Carpet maker Cavalier is ditching synthetics in favour of wool and other natural fibres.

Northland sheep and beef farmer James Parsons doesn’t see himself as the white knight when it comes to fixing the wool sector.