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Expand Background to the DMFR Scheme Background to the DMFR Scheme
Expand What is DMF Contamination?What is DMF Contamination?
Expand Calculating the Merino DMFR RatingCalculating the Merino DMFR Rating
Expand Eligible Sale LotsEligible Sale Lots
Expand Effect of Age, Sex, Crutching and Shearing of the Sheep on the DMFR RatingEffect of Age, Sex, Crutching and Shearing of the Sheep on the DMFR Rating
Expand Issues Involved in Declaring Contact with Exotic SheepIssues Involved in Declaring Contact with Exotic Sheep
Expand Fibres from Other Animals?Fibres from Other Animals?
Expand Breeds Eligible for the DMFR SchemeBreeds Eligible for the DMFR Scheme
Collapse Responsibility for the Merino DMFR DeclarationResponsibility for the Merino DMFR Declaration
Does the wool classer or the owner complete the specification/declaration with regard to the DMFR?
What if stock that have been purchased in full wool but required details are not known?
If the sheep have been in contact with exotics does the DMFR scheme override AWEX's rules?
What is the classer's responsibility in terms of contamination by pigmented and/or medullated fibres?
Who calculates the DMFR?
Does AWTA Ltd get a copy of the classer's specification?
Expand Relationship to the Dark and Medullated Fibre Test Relationship to the Dark and Medullated Fibre Test
Expand Implications of the DMFR Scheme Implications of the DMFR Scheme
Expand Supervision of the DMFR SchemeSupervision of the DMFR Scheme

Responsibility for the Merino DMFR Declaration

There are number of businesses involved in arriving at the Dark & Medullated Risk factor.

  • Wool growers
  • Wool selling brokers and private treaty merchants
  • the Test House

The FAWO working group has defined the role of each of these in arriving at the declaration printed on the Presale Test Certificates and in the Sale Catalogues.