Australian wool farmers are leading a push for a revival in local manufacturing to reduce its heavy reliance on China for production. Skyrocketing energy and labour costs has seen much of Australia's ...

Australia is the world's largest wool producer, growing a quarter of the world's wool. Almost all of the product we buy as Australian wool is grown on our soil, but processed overseas. A new trademark ...

THE Wool Industries Research Association and the Empire Marketing Board are to be congratulated on their joint effort to make a survey of the conditions of wool production throughout the British ...

In March, Hickory (N.C.) Public Library held its Sheep to Sweater program series, designed to take patrons through five different stages in the wool and clothing production process. Photos: Hickory (N ...

This month marks the auspicious return of wool milling to Humboldt County. Lost Coast Spinnery will celebrate its grand opening on May 31. The spinnery is, according to its founders, the first ...

Mulesing, the act of removing skin from a sheep’s backside to prevent flystrike, has been carried out on most Australian farms for decades. But it has been front and centre of campaigns by animal ...

Figures released by the Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee predict volumes will be up nationally for the current selling season but are expecting a dip of 5.3 per cent from Victorian ...

Himachal Pradesh has imported 240 Merino sheep for the genetic improvement of indigenous species under its ₹8.5-crore community-based structured breeding programme Himachal Pradesh has imported 240 ...