Podcasts about australian wool innovation

Wool Producers Australia believes Australian Wool Innovation is spending too much grower money on marketing wool and not enough on research and development.

More than 3600 donated hay bales delivered across South Australia over the long weekend as drought continues, agricultural leaders recognised in Australia Day honours, and Australian Wool Innovation lauds its latest ad campaign as a success.

A valuable resource for sheep producers has been relaunched -- to make access to information easier and more flexible.  The Making More from Sheep program has been updated into a 12 module program, with the latest on sheep industry research and information.  The Australian Wool Innovation's M-M-F-S modules are now also accessible by e-learning.  Rural Reporter Emily Minney spoke with National Extension Manager Emily King, who is encouraging everyone in the sheep industry to take part.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The WA director on the board of Australian Wool Innovation says it's no secret the body will be looking for more money at the next Wool Poll, which takes place later this year.

Australian Wool Innovation says more funds are needed to tackle various issues.

WA wool grower Neil Jackson, from Kojonup, has just been elected to the board of marketing and research company Australian Wool Innovation. 

Two WA wool growers from Kojonup, 260 kilometres south east of Perth, are vying for a seat at the table on the board of Australian Wool Innovation.

The State Government will put $9.3 million towards the rollout of mandatory electronic ID tags in South Australia, Australian Wool Innovation is largely meeting government requirements in managing research and marketing programs for woolgrowers according to an audit by the Australian National Audit Office and a shortage of eggs on supermarket shelves is being put down to increased demand.

One of the most significant roles in the wool industry is the General Manager of on farm research at Australian Wool Innovation. Bridget Peachey now holds this position and we hear from her about the various projects she now oversees. For those looking to contribute maggot samples for the flystrike resistance research discussed please contact NSW DPI email.insectresistance@dpi.nsw.gov.au or ph: 02 4640 6446 and supp feeding for lamb survival contact Amy Lockwood (a.lockwood@murdoch.edu.au) or Serina Hancock (s.hancock@murdoch.edu.au)

Sheep may peeled or plucked, rather than just being shorn, following a breakthrough by scientists working on biological defleecing technology. Australian researchers are experimenting with a corn plant protein. A couple of days after it's injected into sheep it basically softens the wool's roots and allows it to be pulled by hand. Industry association, Australian Wool Innovation, has been investing in the research. Its chair Jock Laurie explains how the how the wool peels away.

A fashion expert has described Australian Wool Innovation's new international ad as a powerful campaign, Debbie and Steve Milne from Waratah White Suffolks, Branxholme, Victoria have sold the top-priced ram at the prime lamb and maternal breeds elite stud sheep at the Royal Adelaide Show and the 2022 South Australian Young Rural Ambassador has proven he can perform in the judging area winning the Poultry and Meat Sheep Junior Judging competitions and the Royal Adelaide Show.

Australia now has a new national biosecurity strategy to help tackle serious pests like varroa mite and diseases such as Foot and Mouth and Lumpy Skin. It sounds like the wet markets of Indonesia are filling up with lots of cheap meat, because small landholders are rushing to sell stock before they potentially succumb to foot-and-mouth disease. The latest wool and sheepmeat survey from Meat and Livestock Australia and Australian Wool Innovation shows Australia's total breeding flock is 42.5 million head, an increase of 500, 000 ewes since last year.

Fiona Macarthur speaks with Dr Tim Goll, principal consultant with For Flock's Sake in Dubbo discussing the correct way to vaccinate sheep and also some common sheep diseases that are causing producers a bit of angst in 2022.

Wool growers who are delivering wool from non-mulesed sheep are being rewarded in the wool market. The Australian Wool Exchange says specialty non-mulesed wool types continue to be highly sort after by exporters who are prepared to pay premiums of up to $2.50 per kilogram against wool of a similar type and specification. Some wool growers are wondering why it's taken Australian Wool Innovation so long to find any new and suitable ways to get wool off the sheep's back. More and more farmers are getting worried their produce could be used as a 'loss leader' by the major supermarkets. Jan Harwood runs Margaret River Free Range Eggs which are sold in many big supermarkets. She says Woolies price freeze campaign sounds nice to the customer, but in the long run it could be very damaging to their suppliers.

Today our guest on It's Time For Ewe is AWI's Angus Ireland. program manager for fibre advocacy and eco credentials - his role within AWI si to undertake research that shines as light on the wonderful attributes of wool. We talk about Wool's carbon footprint and some investment opportunities as a result of that as well as an update on some of AWI's work.

The need for better quality shearing solutions is becoming more apparent as the national flock continues to grow. The Australian Wool Innovation is hosting a Wool Harvesting Open Day in southern New South Wales where the latest shearing systems are on display. Rural editor Sophie Clarke caught up with Chief Executive John Roberts to hear more about the day and how the event will help attract and retain workers to the sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we are joined by Rob Inglis of Elders to talk all about optimising lambing this season. Rob is the livestock production coordinator for Elders as well as being heavily involved with many research projects with Australian Wool Innovation.

In this episode of It's Time For Ewe Fiona Macarthur is joined by Dr Nigel Gillan from the Central Tablelands Local Land Services to talk about footrot. Nigel is a district vet and has a great career a working as a district vet in Bourke, NSW. Following that he joined Local Land Services in 2014 based out of Mudgee and now Orange where he has been based for the last three years.

In this episode of It's Time For Ewe we are joined by Sheep Connect NSW project Manager Megan Rogers. Megan is also the principal of her own business Megan Rogers Consulting Pty Ltd incorporating Sheep Solutions which she established in 2013 after more than 16 years with the Department of Primary Industries. We've invited Megan to speak on the podcast today to talk about joining and lambing this season coming into Autumn.

Australian Wool Innovation says the shearer shortage is the number one concern for the wool industry and it's looking to support innovations that make it easier to get wool off the sheep's back. A return to the office is expected to push up the price of wool this calendar year, according to Rabobank. The Wagin Woolorama set to go ahead as planned despite the growing number of COVID-19 cases in Western Australia.

To manage risk and seasonal variability there needs to be flexibility in grazing management and more information available to address nutritional deficiencies in low rainfall pastures and alternative grazing crops such as pulses. The first year of results are in for the AWI Feed Nutrition project that aims to identify the nutritional value and mineral content of a range of Mallee pastures and grazing crops including the variance between seasons over two years and develop a dataset of the nutritional value and mineral content of low rainfall pastures for use by producers and industry. Hamish Dickson from AgriPartner Consulting joins Tanja Morgan, MSF, to share the findings from sampling 11 pasture and crop types in different seasons to better understand the nutritional quality of paddock feed in low rainfall environments.  First year results are also available in the MSF compendium article available here This project has been funded by Australian Wool Innovation.  Support the show: https://msfp.org.au/about/membership/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's podcast we are speaking about a research project being undertaken by the CSIRO with support from CSIRO and Meat and Livestock Australia. We are going to be talking about autumn lambing and the consequences it may have for animal health. Fiona Macarthur speaks with CSIRO Dr Peter Hunt, co-lead of the agriculture health team with CSIRO and Dr Lucy Watt, CSIRO agriculture and food research scientist.

Woolgrowers have again rejected Australian Wool Innovation's push for a two percent levy rise. The levy paid by wool growers will remain at 1.5 percent, which received 47 percent of the primary vote...and 69 percent after preferences. Woolgrowers have also voted to maintain a three-year woolpoll cycle. To find out about it, rural editor Eddie Summerfield caught up with AWI Chairman Jock Laurie: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Woolgrowers in Australia have voted to continue paying Australian Wool Innovation a levy of 1 point 5 per cent over the next three years, and JBS has told the Bob Brown Foundation that the company has no intention of damaging the environment in the takeover of Huon Aquaculture

Woolgrowers have voted resoundingly to maintain a 1.5 per cent levy on wool sales to fund Australian Wool Innovation

This week's late Spring rain is bittersweet, for some landholders it's the best November rain in over a decade, helping grass growth and broadacre but for fruit growers near Stanthorpe on the Granite Belt, the wettest November on record will wreck some of their ripe fruit and Woolgrowers reject Australian Wool Innovation's pitch for more money and vote for the status quo to keep their levy at 1.5 per cent in WoolPoll 2021.

Woolgrowers have voted resoundingly to maintain a 1.5 per cent levy on wool sales to fund Australian Wool Innovation. After the first round of voting, 47 per cent of votes favoured 1.5 per cent, and after distribution, that figure was 69 per cent. AWI had been urging woolgrowers to vote for a levy increase to two per cent, while Wool Producers Australia supported the status quo. AWI chairman Jock Laurie says the result means there will be some areas where the company won't be able to invest. Overnight, the price of iron ore dropped below ninety US dollars per tonne. That's the lowest it's been in eighteen months. Mother nature has delivered just about everything in her repertoire to Western Australian Grain growers this season.

In this episode of It's Time for Ewe, Fiona Macarthur is joined by Associate Professor Simon DeGraaf to gain some insight into the oestrous cycles of ewes. Simon is recognised as an expert in the reproduction and artificial breeding of sheep. He has published over 75 journal articles papers and three book chapters on animal reproduction and has trained over 2,500 veterinary medicine, animal science and agricultural university students.

It's an unusual thing to see – a mob of cattle grazing contentedly in a patch of paddock, held there by an invisible border. But virtual fencing technology is really taking offand is showing promise as a tool to help mixed farmers control weeds.On Heath Nickolls' cattle and grain property near Pinnaroo in the South Australian mallee, the CSIRO's Dr Rick Llewellyn is leading a GRDC and Australian Wool Innovation investment trialling virtual fencing to gain better crop integrated weed management. As Rick and Heath explain, a strip grazing trial of 40 Angus heifersis delivering promising results.

Australian Wool Innovation says a number of growers are confused by some campaign material sent in the post by a number of candidates standing for election at AWI's AGM on the 19th of November. In the lead up to the election, candidates Steven Read, Michael Field and Don MacDonald have written to shareholders, and popped in a how to vote form, which looks like an official proxy form. AWI says it did not issue the forms and the official proxy form was provided to shareholders with the notice of meeting. Western Australia's meat processing co-operative WAMMCO has recorded an $8.1 million profit for the last financial year. It's a big turnaround from the two million dollar loss WAMMCO reported last year. The Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary in the central Kimberley recorded 49 millimetres over the weekend. It possibly broke a record for the most rain to fall in a single day in October.

Weaners have long been a problematic cohort of animals for sheep producers to manage. Many years of research has been conducted to improve performance and productivity of weaners. Australian Wool Innovation has reviewed this research and given the sheep industry one of Sheep Connect NSW's flagship workshops, Winning With Weaners which is now available online as a webinar which can be accessed from our website www.sheepconnectnsw.com.au.In this episode we are joined by Sheep Connect NSW manager Megan Rogers to speak about Winning With Weaners.Many of you would recognise Megan in this role. She is the principal of her agricultural consulting business Megan Rogers Pty Ltd incorporating SheepSmart Solutions and provides a range of consulting services to farmers and corporate clients. Megan has been at the helm of her business after establishing it in 2013 after a career spanning some 16 years with the NSW Department of Primary Industries.

Woolgrowers have until November 5 to nominate what portion of their wool cheque should go to Australian Wool Innovation to spend on research, development and marketing.

Lamness manifests in many different forms and causes many significant economic and welfare issues for the sheep industry. There are many different causes of lameness including footrot, arthritis and abscess'. In this episode of It's Time For Ewe, Dr Fiona Macarthur has invited Associate professor Om Dhungyel to share his extensive knowledge on the topic. Om is a Principal research fellow at the University of Sydney and has extensive knowledge and research experience in this area.

Wool-growers are being assured, they will have a say on preferred candidates joining the Australian Wool Innovation board. Some landholders are yet to receive their WoolPoll papers, due to postage delays, and there's concern the issues could extend to next months vote. They argue papers should be sent out earlier. Rural reporter Sophie Clarke takes a closer look at the issue.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian Wool Innovation is preparing to commercialise part of its highly criticised online market platform WoolQ, new research could bring the emerging agri-chemical technology known as nanopesticides one step closer to regulatory approval and Murray Cod and Golden Perch numbers are growing in the Menindee Lakes system now the lakes have reached 100 per cent capacity.

Woolgrowers will today be able to have their say in WoolPoll 2021.The poll is a chance for woolgrowers to work out what percentage of their wool income they'd like to hand over to AWI to invest in R&D and marketing. The current levy is one-and-a-half per cent, but Australian Wool Innovation would like that to rise to two per cent. Lobby group WAFarmers supports a vote for one-and-half-per cent. The Pastoralists and Graziers Association is suggesting wool growers don't vote for more than one-and-a-half per cent. Dave Vandenberghe farms north west of Esperance at Scadden. He's a mixed farmer with sheep and cropping and would be happy to see a two per cent levy get up for AWI. For the first time ever, the WA Meat Marketing Co-op is transporting lamb all the way to Brisbane to access shipping services bound for north American markets.

Woolgrowers are about to receive their Woolpoll 2021 voter information kit, which will help them decide how much of their wool income they'd like to direct to AWI to invest in R&D and marketing. Australian Wool Innovation runs the Woolpoll every three years. The current levy is set at 1.5 per cent, but AWI is recommending a two per cent levy rate. In 2018 the federal government pledged to plant a billion plantation trees across Australia this decade. It's been exactly three years since that promise and so far, tree plantings have totalled less than one per cent of that figure. In the Northern Territory, Australia's biggest mango producer has arranged for his seasonal workers from Vanuatu to quarantine here in WA.

Where does Australian Wool Innovation still need to improve to better service the woolgrowers who fund it? Hear from the CEO, Stuart McCullough himself about the independent review of the organisation.

In this episode of It's Time For Ewe, Fiona Macarthur is joined by Laura Broughton of Productive Livestock Systems to assess ways to get the most from our pastures and sheep. Laura studied a Bachelor of animal Science at Charles Sturt University before working as a technical officers at the Sheep CRC at the University of New England.

IN this episode of It's Time For Ewe Fiona Macarthur is joined by Dr Sue Hatcher to explore the key stages of a ewe's reproductive cycle that can be managed to improve productivity.

Sheep Connect NSW is pleased to host Australian Wool Innovation Staff to discuss current research, development, extension and marketing across the wool industry. Australian Wool Innovation has been hosting Future Wool events in regional locations throughout Australia, in addition we have hosted an online event for those who are unable to attend the face-to-face. In this episode of It's Time For Ewe, Fiona Macarthur is joined by Emily King, AWI' project manager for research and extension and Henry Ridge AWI's manager for wool growers services and Dr Jane Littlejohn who is AWI's general manager for research.

Condition score is a productive and efficient means of determining the production status of a flock. With many benchmarks now available within industry it is a tool that can be easily implemented into your management system to improve flock productivity and profitability. In this episode of It's Time For Ewe, Fiona Macarthur is joined by Megan Rogers to discuss the benefits of condition score to your flock.

Australian Wool Innovation will invest an additional $650,000 dollars to partner with CSIRO to fast track vaccine flystrike trials Sales of pre-packaged vegetables and fruit have skyrocketed during the pandemic Commercially important fish including snapper and groper have been found to not be affected by seismic surveying according to recent research

It doesn't seem to matter what time of the year it is, we still get caught out with worms in our sheep flock. This is because when conditions are right, which they seem to be in some parts of New South Wales at the moment, these unwelcome guest make the most of the opportunity.In this episode of It's Time For Ewe Dr Fiona Macarthur is joined by Matt Playford, Veterinary consultant with Dawbuts Pty Ltd to talk about the biology of why worms are so advantageous and how we can use this knowledge to help control them.

Australian Wool Innovation insists it will not release data behind its recommendation for wool growers to vote for a 2 percent levy in the WoolPoll until September. Grower groups have been critical of the peak research body for publishing a recommendation, without publishing detail about what it can do at each levy option. Chairman Jock Laurie spoke with Rural Editor Eddie Summerfield. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian Wool Innovation says it wants wool growers to vote for a half a per cent increase in the wool levy at the latest wool poll to help the industry go forward from COVID, and the Dorset Council in northern Tasmania has decided to offer financial assistance to dairy farmers to help them construct road underpasses for the cows and farmers safety

How to add value to the honey industry is the key focus of this week's Australasian Honey Bee Conference. The two day event was due to be held in Perth and was set to be one of the largest gatherings of honey researchers in Australasia. But COVID restrictions changed those plans and the conference was held online. DPIRD says when it comes to honey exports, WA punches well above its weight. Australian Wool Innovation has a new chair at the helm with the appointment of Jock Laurie. He's been on the board since 2015, is a past president of the National Farmers Federation and the NSW Farmers Association and farms at Walcha on the Northern Tablelands in NSW. Key players in the farm sector believe labour shortage issues are about to get worse, with changes to the working holiday maker visa. Under the changes, from March next year, visa holders can extend their stay for a second or third year by taking on a job in tourism or hospitality in remote parts of the country.

The 2021 Australian Organic Market report is out, and has revealed more than one in three of us have been duped into splashing cash on products that don't meet organic certification requirements, Australian Wool Innovation has a new chair at the helm with the appointment of Jock Laurie and the Naracoorte Regional Livestock Exchange's longest serving manager is stepping down this week after 41 years in the job.

IntroductionAllan De Boos has been working in the wool industry his whole career. As the Programme Manager responsible for the Woolmark Wool Education Course at tertiary level he shares his knowledge with the wool industry's future designers and engineers. In this episode, he talks about the programme and explains the importance of educating students in wool for the innovations of the future. About Allan De BoosDr. Allan de Boos is a graduate of the University of NSW (Textile Technology - Chemistry) and the Victoria University of Manchester (Dept Chemical Physics). He was employed by CSIRO Division of Wool Technology from 1968-2002 conducting research into the chemical and mechanical finishing of wool and wool-blend fabrics. While at CSIRO he worked closely with fabric and garment manufacturers particularly in Italy and the UK, on the exploitation of SiroFAST and other systems for fabric objective measurement for fabric and garment manufacturing. Over the last 15 years, Allan has worked for Australian Wool Innovation and is currently the Programme Manager responsible for Woolmark Wool Education Course at tertiary level. Over the past four years, he has delivered the Woolmark Course at Yantai-Nanshan university in Nanshan, China. The delivery involves two periods, each of two months, working in Nanshan. This year he will also be delivering units at Jiaxing University. In addition to delivery of the course units, Allan conducts 'course familiarisation' sessions with staff from other Chinese universities so that they can evaluate the course and its materials for inclusion in the university undergraduate programme for textile engineers. Allan also manages the delivery of units of the course at several other textile-related universities in China by staff from Deakin University (Australia).  About AWI/The Woolmark CompanyAWI is the research development and marketing (RD&M) organisation for the Australian wool industry. AWI's mission is to invest in research, development, marketing and promotion to enhance the profitability, international competitiveness and sustainability of the Australian wool industry and increase demand and market access for Australian wool. Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and its subsidiary The Woolmark Company (TWC) represent the interests of 55,000 wool growers in Australia. AWI is proud of what it has achieved for Australian wool growers. In FY17 AWI invested $71 million in 398 projects with 140 partners worldwide. These included leading international brands and sport companies such as Nike and Adidas who recognise their customers are interested in natural fibre, and in particular wool, in clothes, running shoes, and soft tailoring.

IntroductionPeter Morgan is the Executive Director of the Australian Council of Wool Exporters & Processors and of the Private Treaty Wool Merchants of Australia. In this episode, Peter gives insights into the Australian wool export industry and shares stories from his life long career and achievements for the overall good of the wool industry. About Peter MorganDr Peter Morgan, like a number of members of the wool industry enrolled in the former Wool Technology course at the University of New South Wales. It was his first involvement with the sheep and wool industry. He joined the Western Australian Department of Agriculture after graduation in 1963, based in Port Hedland as a one man office. From there, he provided an extension service to the pastoralists over an area of 60,000 square miles, working mostly on sheep fertility problems and pasture management issues. He also had responsibility for the local Departmental Research Station, “Abydos”. While based in Port Hedland, Peter also completed an MSc on methods for improving ram fertility and lambing performance in the Region. Outside of his work with the Department of Agriculture, Peter witnessed the commencement of the transformation of the Pilbara from a pastoral small to medium sized mining industry based area to an iron ore giant. Peter received an Australian Wool Board Scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Western Australia in 1967. This time, in the field of early stage lamb mortality. He returned to the North West on completion of his PhD studies, taking a position in the Department's Regional Office in Derby. From there, he resumed work on sheep fertility problems in the Pilbara Region and participated in the beef cattle research programme at the new Department of Agriculture Research Station at Fitzroy Crossing. Peter accepted an offer to join the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) as Regional Manager Fremantle in 1972. His friends from University days, David Ward and SAS Douglas were already at AWTA. The timing of his appointment coincided with the lift in wool prices after the very tough times from 1968 to 1971. It also coincided with a significant lift in testing volumes as the recently formed Australian Wool Commission began testing the stockpile prior to resale. His commencement at AWTA was only a few months before the completion of the Australian Objective Measurement Project (AOMP) that led to the introduction of Presale testing and Sale-by-Sample in July 1972. This, in turn, led a period of phenomenal growth and challenges at AWTA. He moved to Head Office in 1978, where he had a number of senior roles before retiring in 1999 as part of the phased transition in the senior management structure. Peter involved himself at all levels of the industry during his time at AWTA and is probably best remembered for his work in the development of IT systems to meet the ongoing growth of Presale testing and as a member of the Industry Committee which introduced electronic data transfer to the industry in 1984. This was a pioneering achievement for the wool industry in EDP terms and removed the costly, and error prone, need for sellers, private treaty merchants and buyers to re-enter data which was already recorded in other computers in the industry. On retirement from AWTA, Peter took up a part-time position assisting Bob Quirk at the newly formed Australian Wool Industry Secretariat (AWIS). This stretched to full time in 2002 when Bob moved to Australian Wool Innovation and Peter took on Bob's former role of Executive Director. This made him Executive Director of the Australian Council of Wool Exporters, the Australian Wool Processors Council, the Private Treaty Wool Merchants of Australia and Secretary of the Federation of Australian Wool Organisations. He is also a Member of the Australian delegations to the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) Meetings. Peter continues today as the Executive Director...