Displaying items by tag: wool
The wool industry is still facing challenges
The wool industry continues to face challenges with depressed wool prices for a third year in a row, says Primary Wool Cooperative chair Janette Osborne.
Oral-free rams sell well
Getting on top of a lousy problem
For strong wool sheep, lice infection is a nuisance more than a hefty financial cost. But, for fine wool sheep the financial toll is much greater.
Small profit for Wools NZ
The Wools of NZ board considers its 2019 financial outcomes to be satisfactory given “the first year as a fully commercial company, operating in a very challenging wool market”.
A fine win for NZ Merino
Peters accused of pulling wool over growers’ eyes
What happened to the New Zealand First policy of favouring wool in Government procurement contracts?
Championing wool to the world
Telling the story of wool is one of the keys to its resurgence as the global fibre of choice, according to NZ grower owned company Wools of New Zealand.
Wool’s smell may combat flystrike
An Australian research project has identified compounds in Merino sheep wool that are attractive to blowflies.
Shearing and wool courses
New ‘micro-credentials’ in wool harvesting will help meet a critical need to train shearers and wool handlers, claims Primary ITO chief executive Linda Sissons.
$2b pay off in fine wool shift – NZM
Shifting half of New Zealand’s crossbred wool clip to higher value fine wool contracts could boost the economy by about $2 billion, says NZ Merino Company (NZM) chief executive John Brakenridge.