Woolgrowers

How Woolgrowers Manage native vegetation & biodiversity on New England wool properties

In 2003, the Land, Water & Wool Northern Tablelands Project (NSW) conducted a survey of woolgrowers in southern New England.

The survey aimed to find out what woolgrowers thought about biodiversity in relation to wool production, how woolgrowers manage their farms in ways that affect biodiversity, and what it would take for them to adopt management practices that would enhance biodiversity.

Social pressures likely to reshape Australia's woolgrowing industry over the next 25 years

Australia’s woolgrowers are operating under a variety of social pressures. Some of there pressures are reshaping the whole farm sector and affect woolgrowing as much as any other agricultural industry. Other pressures are reshaping the wool industry in particular. This paper discusses recent demographic trends among Australia’s body of woolgrowers and projects those trends into the future, and describes the various social pressures that appear to be influencing woolgrowing (more)...

Project Narelle: Markets and Consumer Preferences to 2029

Examines the wool market and consumer preferences until 2029.

Reflections of Tasmanian Woolgrowers

In the following pages are stories told by 23 woolgrowers in Tasmania. They have been selected as a broad representation of people involved in wool growing and caring for the land and rivers in their regions. The purpose of the discussions was to discover and document people’s connection with rivers and life as a woolgrower.

Final Report- Informing Decisions of Pastoral Woolgrowers for Country and Profit

Summarises the research findings of this report.

Integrating Paddock and Catchment Planning

Summarises the research findings from this project.

Best Practice Survey : Natural resource management & Australian wool growers

This large-scale project conducted by Land Water & Wool used surveys, focus groups and interviews to determine the attitudes, practices and needs of natural resource management of Australian wool growers.

This booklet reports the key findings in the

Productive Resource Management for wool growers

A comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide on resource management for woolgrowers. Provides background information about the industry and outlines of the LWW research program. Summarises each component of LWW, resource management and the opinions from a

Barking up the Right Tree

This brochure provides information for Victorian woolgrowers with hill country, however is still valuable to anyone interested in management options for meeting biodiversity and production outcomes in a whole farm context. Covers topics of deferred graz

Shaping the future Land Water & Wool - a snapshot

Information booklet on the Australian Wool Industry’s LWW natural resource management research and development program. Provides in-depth information of the program, and each of the research sub-programs. Also provides a snapshot of some of the key fi