Information for Wool Growers
Related Links
Links to sites which contain information that is either specific to wool growers of of interest to them are provided via the logos to the right. More information about each of these links is provided in the text below.
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)
Australian Wool Innovation is a not-for-profit company owned by more than 30,000 Australian woolgrowers.
AWI invests in research, development, innovation and marketing along the global supply chain for Australian wool.
Making More From Sheep
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) have joined forces to develop Making More From Sheep, a best practice package of information, tools and learning opportunities for Australian sheep producers.
Almost 250 leading sheep producers and technical experts helped develop the 11 linked modules in the manual, which cover subjects ranging from soils and pasture to wool and meat marketing, animal health, genetics and farm sustainability.
The Making More From Sheep website contains all the content within the Making More From Sheep manual and cd-rom, and also gives you information about upcoming Making More From Sheep forums, workshops and other learning activities.
Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX)
AWEX seeks to add value for the benefit of it's stakeholders by providing services and functions for the effective and efficient trading of wool in Australia. Some of these services and functions include:
- provide and maintain physical and electronic trading facilities in Australia;
- manage wool industry self-regulation through the provision of a framework of business rules governing the trade of wool between buyer and seller members of AWEX;
- supply electronic data communication systems for wool trading;
- maintain recognised quality assurance standards; and
- provide pre- and post-sale market information.
AWEX is responsible for maintaining and supporting a wool classer training and registration.
CSIRO
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
CSIRO was for many years the most important research agency in Australia and perhaps in the world for the Wool Textile industry. It became heavily involved in wool protein chemistry and wool processing technology just after World Wart II. From 1960 to 1995 CSIRO was heavily involved in wool testing and wool metrology and is responsible for the development of the ATLAS technology and LASERSCAN technology that is now utilised by AWTA Ltd, NZWTA Ltd and WTBSA in providing IWTO Certification of greasy wool produced by wool growers in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Unfortunately, due changes in wool industry funding for research and CSIRO policy changes the organisation, while still active in the Wool Industry, plays a much lesser role than it once did.
Wool Cheque
Wool cheque is free service provided to wool growers. It is simple to use, and allows them to independently price their wool clip based on the latest daily or historical wool prices.
Worm Boss
Worms cost Australian sheep producers more than any other disease. Drench resistant worms are increasingly prevalent and becoming harder to manage. For most sheep producers, sustainable management and control of sheep worms is essential for their future prosperity.
WormBoss was developed by the Australian Sheep Industry Cooperative Research Centre (Sheep CRC) and Australian Wool Innovation Ltd (AWI) to help producers meet these challenges.
WormBoss represents the national knowledge on sheep worms and their management.
Timerite
Redlegged earth mites (RLEM) are a major pest of pasture legumes in the winter rainfall regions of southern Australia.
TIMERITE has been developed byt CSIRO with AWI funding support to provide optimal spray dates for the effective control of RLEM in all areas of southern Australia within the known range of RLEM distribution.