1797: Merino sheep introduced to Australia. Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port ...

Australia is on track to shear its smallest sheep flock in more than 120 years, with national numbers forecast to fall below ...

The Australian wool clip is priced more than 30 per cent higher than 12 months ago despite a “volatile” global economy.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian sheep farmers will from July 1 separate out wool at auctions that has been produced without using "mulesing", which is condemned by animal rights activists and has led to ...

Just days before the biggest shopping day of the year, a video released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has revealed abuse of sheep within the Australian wool industry. PETA says ...

The solution from Adilam Technologies and HID Global provides members of the Australian Wool Exchange with a view into the processing and transport of wool for traceability and efficiency. Australia, ...

SYDNEY - Multigenerational family businesses were front of mind at Vitale Barberis Canonico's 2024 Wool Excellence Award in Australia last month. Staged at the Josef Chromy Wines estate in Relbia near ...

The Fibre of Football campaign, run by the AWI-owned Woolmark, has recruited AFL legends with farming backgrounds as wool ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After years of wrangling, Australia's wool industry has a claimed victory over US animals rights group People for Ethical Treatment of ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's $2.2 billion wool industry rejected calls on Thursday to immediately stop a "barbaric" practice of cutting away loose skin from sheep to stop maggots, saying there was ...

SYDNEY – 9 April, 2019 – The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has worked with Microsoft partner MicroChannel to develop and roll out a smartphone app and cloud ...

THE paper "Scientific Aspects of Australia's Industrial Development", which Mr. G. B. Gresford read before the Royal Society of Arts on January 16, naturally covers a good deal of ground in common ...