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First clip fares well for young woolgrowers

3:30 AM | PASSIONATE sheep breeders Will and George Grimwade, pictured with Australian Wool Network agent Ron Creek, sold their first Merino clip at the Melbourne wool stores yesterday.

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Workplace safety tops shearers' agenda

14 May 12 | DEVELOPING an action plan to tackle wool harvesting health and safety issues will be top of the agenda at next week's Shearharvest 2012 conference. |

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Aussie wool on US retail radar

12 May 12 | AUSTRALIAN Merino wool took centre stage at a special market event for the United States’ fashion and retail industry in New York this week - with woolgrowers on hand to help spruik the benefits of the natural fibre. | Wool industry questions nucleus ... | Broader microns buck downward ...

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Wool market up 0.3pc

07 May 12 | THE AWEX Regional Indicators finished 0.3pc higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle last week when the US exchange rate fell by 0.7pc.

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Broader microns buck downward trend

06 May 12 | BROADER microns have held their own against the finer end of the Australian clip early in 2012, staving off a dip in wool demand and continued uncertainty in the global economy. |

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Wool industry questions nucleus flock move

03 May 12 | WOOL industry groups have heaped pressure on Australian Wool Innovation to reverse its decision to withdraw funding support for the Information Nucleus Flock program. |

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Ditch AWI: Massy

30 Apr 12 | WOOLGROWERS would be better served by more smaller grower groups focused on innovative marketing rather than a blanket approach from a large statutory body like AWI, says stud breeder and author Charles Massy. |

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China commits to Aussie wool

28 Apr 12 | ONE of the largest processors of ultra and superfine Merino wool in the world - gargantuan Chinese company, Shandong Ruyi - has reaffirmed its commitment to the struggling Australian industry. |

Comments (1) | Wool back in fashion: Rabobank | AWGA call for WoolPoll info

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High volume leads to lower wool prices

27 Apr 12 | A BIGGER offering after the Easter break saw the wool market drop back last week when sales resumed.

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Wool needs to be wearable

26 Apr 12 | WELLINGTON ultrafine wool grower Jim Murray, "Binjang", reckons the Wool Modern exhibition - which launched in Sydney on Tuesday night - is on the money.

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Sydney launches Wool Week

26 Apr 12 | WOOL Week was launched this week in Sydney with a collision of country and city, wool growers and fashion designers, at a range of events across the city. |

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Wool producers embrace genomics

25 Apr 12 | PRODUCERS of Australia’s finest wool are embracing new genomic technologies to improve the quality of their flocks and their fleeces.

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Luxury status a boon for wool

24 Apr 12 | COMMENT: WHEN Australia rode on the sheep’s back, a lot of our clothing was made of wool. That changed as synthetics and cotton became popular, but as late as the 1970s wool enjoyed strong demand because the Soviet Union used it to make military uniforms.

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AWGA call for WoolPoll info

23 Apr 12 | THE Australian Wool Growers Association (AWGA) is calling for Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) to immediately release its three-year spending projections to give farmers ample time to make an informed decision on which levy rate to support in WoolPoll. |

Comments (2) | Wool back in fashion: Rabobank | Medics nourish Merinos

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Wool legacy lives on

23 Apr 12 | THE Glen Innes property “Wattle Vale” – the listing of which has signalled the winding down of nearly 90 years of family ownership – has everything in place for a new owner to continue the property’s legacy of finewool Merino production. |

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Medics nourish Merinos

22 Apr 12 | MERINOS are the focus of Brad Davey's sheep grazing and cropping property at Port Neill on the Eyre Peninsula and medics play an important tool in helping him get the best out of his livestock.

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Wool back in fashion: Rabobank

20 Apr 12 | LOW global stock levels will continue to deliver above-average wool prices in the short-term for growers but the high Australian dollar will take the shine off the market, according to Rabobank’s latest global focus report, Wool – back in fashion?, released on Monday. |

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Wool back in fashion: Rabobank

16 Apr 12 | THE great promise of emerging markets is beginning to crystallise for Australian wool leading to renewed optimism among growers that finally, wool may be ‘back in fashion’, according to a new industry report.

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National success for Vic woolclassers

15 Apr 12 | Holly Byrne, Bagshot, has proved she has an eye for fibre, taking out the inaugural AWEX National Graduate Woolclasser of the Year competition during the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Saturday.

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Campaign for wool rolls on

13 Apr 12 | AS THE next – and possibly swankiest – major event in the global Campaign for Wool heads for the southern hemisphere, AWI head Stuart McCullough said the push to cement wool’s market position as a luxury fibre is doing exactly what it should. |

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