A central Victorian stud has purchased the top-priced Merino ram at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show as part of its plans to ...

Exiting commercial sheep producers have taken home this year’s top gong for their Merino fleece – 40 years in the making.

Sheep grazing close to a solar farm among its panels seems to even improve the quality of wool, a new study has found. The study is based on the results of a second round of wool testing at the ...

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 ...

Data was collected to assess wool value, and fleece returns to gauge an average sheep value across a selection of 730 wethers. Trial manager Craig Wilson of Wagga Wagga said there were 50 flocks ...

At a time when “carbon tunnel vision” is blinding the industry from making meaningful change, Woolmark is looking beyond net-zero to nature-positive with a new scheme. The “future-facing program” for ...

A lost, overgrown sheep found in Australian scrubland was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 89 pounds of wool — the equivalent of 30 sweaters — and shedding almost half his body ...

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 ...