Wool

Healthy Soils: Soil is a National Asset - Corporate Brochure

The Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme is a wide-ranging, $5 million programme that covers a variety of agricultural sectors across almost all the states of Australia. The current range of agricultural industries involved in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme includes: • Grain and crops • Cotton • Sheep and wool • Sugar • Vegetables • Organics The scale of the projects supported (more)...

An Australian Wool innovation: "Healthy Soils" Training Module

Past research identified a significant gap in profitability between the ‘top 20%’ and the average sheep producer of between $20 and $37 per sry sheep equivalent. Evidence showed this gap was due to the adoption of best practices by the top 20% of sheep producers. A long history of investment in research and development by the wool and sheepmeat industries means that much of the information, technologies and tools to allow sheep producers to significantly increase sustainability (more)...

Land Water and Wool Case Study: Melissa Rebbeck, SARDI

Understanding risk in a changing climate

Farming in the first decade of the 21st century in Australia is as challenging now as it was 100 years ago, but the grab-bag of tools that help farmers manage for drought and flood is growing. South Australian wool, wheat and barley growers Susan and Ben Carn are making the most of these tools. They farm 8000 hectares running 4000 to 5000 sheep in a low rainfall area at Quorn, north of the infamous Goyder’s Line of Rainfall, the demarcation established in 1865 above which anything (more)...

Competitor Trends in 2029

This briefing provides a glimpse into the evolution of fibre dynamics and volumetrics over the next two and a half decades. Relative fibre prices, regional fibre availability, economic development and industrial and trade policies, lifestyles, consumer / cultural fibre preferences, fibre performance, fibre and textile engineering, environmental constraints and fibre / brand marketing; these are just some of the factors that shape supply and demand for all fibres and influence choice between fibres from (more)...