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The Yarn — 286 episodes

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RB Sellars celebrates wool

2

Wool marketing 101

3

AWI’s new CEO Bryan Fry

4

XTM

5

Testing flystrike research with commercial flocks

6

Containment feeding

7

Breeding out sheep blowflies on KI

8

Know your enemy: protecting your flock against flystrike

9

George Millington: new AWI Chairman

10

Future leaders trip to China

11

IWTO President, Major wool processor and large woolgrower

12

An important time for woolgrowers

13

Planfarm

14

Woolgrower returns from Blue Earth summit

15

AWI Chairman at Bendigo

16

Jasmine Cox: The energy of a young grower

17

Mooralla Merinos

18

Woolmark +

19

Woolgrowers and retailers working together

20

Latest Wool Production Forecast

21

Paul O’Connor Oxton Park

22

Woolmark's 60th in China

23

Patrick Cripps and the Fibre of Football

24

Carbon and wool - An explanation

25

Trail feeding lambing ewes

26

Protecting your flock from flystrike

27

New England MLP

28

Emerging markets: Vietnam

29

Woolmark going into bat for wool in Europe

30

Japan and Korea market for wool

31

Francesco Magri: Italy and wool

32

Jeff Ma: China and wool

33

Wayne Perkins, a shearing innovator

34

Winning With Weaners

35

Anna Speer and regenerative ag

36

Nanjing Wool market conference

37

Biological harvesting field day

38

Alex Ball puts it in our court

39

Regenerative Agriculture under the microscope.

40

Scott Carmody on medium term optimism for wool

41

AWI GM research: Bridget Peachey

42

Simply Merino

43

Biological harvesting of wool, Philip Hynd

44

MLP Macquarie’s final fling

45

Kondinin talks shed, yard design, sheep handlers

46

Ian Shippen: shearing solutions

47

Sustainability and wool: the next frontier

48

The expansion of domestic wool processing: Waverley Mills

49

2023 wool market: where to from here?

50

World’s greatest female shearer: Cathy Wendelborn

51

Wild Dog mythbusting

52

Bernard Salt’s challenge to Australian agribusiness

53

AWI AGM highlights

54

Domestic processing: dream or reality

55

Jamie Lillie of Fox and Lillie exports

56

Sportscraft and wool

57

The Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP)

58

Foot and Mouth Disease Augmented Reality

59

Carryology USA discovers the source of Merino

60

Voice of the future

61

Data supporting and building trust in industry

62

School wether competition success

63

State of the Art 3D knitting on farm

64

Ed Storey, WoolProducers Australia president: FMD, SSF and the state of wool

65

Wool back at Premiere Vision

66

Foot and Mouth special: your sheep and wool questions answered

67

TEM and the wild west

68

The superfine master

69

Biological defleecing: the next generation

70

Barber’s Pole: clear and present danger

71

Wool harvesting technology day: Falkiner Memorial Field Station

72

Global demand, new processing, wool harvesting

73

Wool supply and demand: the latest news from both ends

74

Rethinking investment on farm

75

New shearing tech at field days

76

The_world’s biggest sheep experiment.

77

Wearable Tech: keeping shearers shearing

78

Geoff Power: industry champion

79

Slowing the development of flystrike chemical resistance

80

The Young Wool Group

81

New catch and deliver trialled in woolsheds

82

The 21st Century Wild Dog Tree

83

Wool’s achievements in 2021 and hopes for 2022

84

Homespun: the new Australian series in a woolgrowing community

85

Voting online for the 2021 AWI AGM

86

Carbon Accounting with new Nuffield scholar

87

Make The Label Count; the most important wool campaign ever?

88

Kangaroo Island recovery, with a surprise

89

Shearing innovation: can catch + drag be eliminated? And the digital tally counter!

90

Containment/confinement feeding

91

AWI Board Q+A and the school wether challenge

92

Breeding Leadership

93

Woolpoll and a sheep handling legend

94

2021 Review of Performance

95

Farmers helping farmers

96

The UK and Europe post COVID: what for wool?

97

New AWI Chairman Jock Laurie

98

Ross Wells OAM

99

The world’s biggest fleece competition turns 50

100

The next wool selling season; what’s the outlook?

101

EU labelling problem

102

Q&A for WoolQ

103

Its Super-fine

104

The Sheep Geek (self-confessed)

105

Merinos winning in a changing landscape

106

Real Farmers with Real Agritech= solving problems + lifting profits

107

Australian Made Week; buy local, support local

108

Voices of the Wool Industry

109

Joining Ewe Lambs

110

Wool production and WoolQ

111

Revisiting the USA

112

Sheep Sustainability Framework

113

Pasture legumes to feed livestock and crops

114

Where to for wool post COVID

115

Burying wool and stereotypes

116

The fence that’s saving the outback

117

What shearing shortage?

118

Merinos reduce cropping risks

119

The business in building a shearing shed

120

Taking a chance with wool and winning

121

Flies and worms in a wet summer

122

Marketing wool during COVID

123

How blockchain could revolutionise wool

124

A strong start to 2021 fr the wool market

125

A new path to farm ownership

126

Yacker; a new way for farmers to communicate

127

Managing your flock over summer

128

Where have all the shearers gone?

129

The nutritional value of crop stubbles

130

Wool2030: a brighter future for Australian woolgrowers

131

Making EID work

132

The editor behind Beyond the Bale

133

Highlights of the 2020 AGM

134

SafeSheds; The Shearing Shed Safety Program

135

The sheep industry at new price and low flock levels

136

Intensifying Merino operations: can you double?

137

AWI Young Breeders Challenge

138

Rams x The Yarn

139

Making Changes: Change Makers

140

Ram Ready with Dr Michylla Seal

141

From shearing school to Shanghai

142

Woolmark in America

143

A Shortage of Shearers – but is it all bad?

144

The twin Merino lambing shed

145

The Yarn: the next Hugh McKay

146

Ag education: wether challenge success

147

Woolgrower to Wool Market

148

MJ Bale on changing demand for wool

149

Legumes for Livestock

150

Masks and online ram sales

151

Merinos planting crops

152

Resisting resistance

153

Persistence of wool marketing

154

Upgrading your shearing office

155

Precision lambing

156

This week it’s all about what is happening in Asia.

157

The Science of Wool

158

Gaining genetic ground with an MLP milestone

159

What’s the supply, and what’s the demand?

160

The Yarn: The need for green feed

161

Smart solar tags: real time monitoring of sheep

162

Ian McLachlan: wool industry elder

163

A Plan for Predators

164

Shearing in isolation

165

Future-proofing the Wool Industry

166

A crucial COVID-19 update from China

167

The marriage of sheep and cropping

168

COVID-19; Challenging the Wool Market

169

Progressing with Flystrike Research

170

Adversity to Opportunity; Controlling Feral Species After Natural Disasters

171

Fire Recovery: Let’s Start Again

172

Coronavirus and the Australian wool trade

173

The Positives of Drought

174

Bushfires: Emergency Livestock Safety and Recovery

175

The Dawn of Australian Wool; the Origins of the First Fabric

176

AWI CEO on 2019 and hope for 2020

177

Shearing and Wool Handling; a profession, a sport or both?

178

Young guns fire for wool

179

Australian wool and the USA

180

Studying Shearing Muscle and Rangeland Management

181

The Chairman’s Address

182

Gucci and Versace: why these iconic brands choose wool

183

2019 Nanjing Wool Market ‘Conference of Confusion’

184

Lifting reproduction and broad wool marketing

185

New shearing shed designs and wool’s wellness attributes

186

MAKING SHEEP EASIER

187

The_Yarn EP 100

188

Winning with wool dedication

189

An ugly wool market restart: why?

190

A fashion journalist’s love for wool

191

Magnificent Maidens: lambing ewes at 12 months

192

Persistent pastures and plugging feed gaps

193

Smart Tags and WoolQ: the future of wool

194

The 100% solar-powered woolshed

195

Wool around the world

196

Risky business

197

50 years of service to the West Australian agricultural industry

198

Educating the future of wool; the NMC

199

Secrets of a Kelpie Master

200

Supply, Demand and Asia: where wool dragons drive demand.

201

Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) Project Update

202

Regenerative agriculture: fad or the future?

203

We Wool Win at the Boston Marathon

204

Rebuilding a giant: the Qld wool industry

205

How to plan and execute practical change

206

Merino Management

207

Lessons in and out of the shearing shed

208

The Live Sheep Trade

209

Why have sheep in a cropping system?

210

The Road to Balranald

211

Droughts, floods but optimism in QLD

212

Fashion Secrets Explained

213

Craig Wilson’s career as a Merino consultant

214

Wool market update: Jan 2019

215

Flock to Baggy Green

216

Nigel Kerin

217

Who’s teaching the next gen about wool?

218

3D printing - could this lead to robotic shearing?

219

Is the China-US trade war affecting our wool market?

220

Woolgrowers from both sides of the world

221

What does industry think about WoolPoll?

222

A humble shepherd and internationally acclaimed author

223

Drought

224

Woolmark Performance Challenge

225

IWP designer making waves

226

New WoolQ Functionality

227

The challenge of growing wool in Africa

228

Nicholson’s Nuffield

229

Barking up the right tree

230

Another Record High

231

Social license, what is it to the wool industry?

232

Our farming future with robots

233

Cockies head back to school

234

Fibre of Footy

235

The blueprint of fly genomes and lamb survival

236

Breech Flystrike RD & E Technical Update

237

Where is the industry heading?

238

Review of Performance

239

The Future

240

Robotic shearing: can it become a reality?

241

Connecting the dots

242

Sexed Semen – intrigued? You should be

243

Why Wool? Behind the scenes of Wool Week

244

Wild days for wool

245

The National Merino Challenge

246

Where is Lesotho?

247

Two Merino women with very different viewpoints.

248

China Connection

249

Making headway with scanning

250

The World Merino conference in Uruguay

251

Marathon runners Won With Wool

252

Ewe are what ewe eat

253

The.global reach of Australian wool

254

Non mulesed operations

255

WoolQ: the digital future for wool selling

256

Young wool optimists

257

Australia’s biggest sheep experiment: the MLP

258

Wool and Sport

259

Chinese supermodel/designer visits farm

260

The_Genius of wool design: hear the IWP winners

261

United States of wool: hear what major retailers say about wool

262

Wool at $20, why? Hear the optimism around our fibre

263

Provence

264

Demand and Supply

265

The Business of Wool

266

India, Hong Kong and the wool market

267

It’s Ewe Time

268

Dr Jane Littlejohn and the digital potential

269

Lifetime Ewe App

270

Australian wool in Italy

271

Nuffield scholarship

272

AFL Kevin Sheedy

273

To sell or keep, what do the experts say?

274

Burberry sourcing tour

275

wool in Turkey

276

From the outback to the Himalayas

277

The man who dressed India’s Prime Minister

278

why Adidas loves wool

279

Korea, a market for wool?

280

How does AWI measure success

281

Wool, a staple in activewear

282

AWI grower networks

283

Bullish in a British way

284

Word from China

285

Wool’s therapeutic qualities

286

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