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The Yarn — 288 episodes
EP 288: Tom Hooke Nuffield: Regen Farming in Pastoral Areas
EP 287: AWI Chairman fresh from China
RB Sellars celebrates wool
Wool marketing 101
AWI’s new CEO Bryan Fry
XTM
Testing flystrike research with commercial flocks
Containment feeding
Breeding out sheep blowflies on KI
Know your enemy: protecting your flock against flystrike
George Millington: new AWI Chairman
Future leaders trip to China
IWTO President, Major wool processor and large woolgrower
An important time for woolgrowers
Planfarm
Woolgrower returns from Blue Earth summit
AWI Chairman at Bendigo
Jasmine Cox: The energy of a young grower
Mooralla Merinos
Woolmark +
Woolgrowers and retailers working together
Latest Wool Production Forecast
Paul O’Connor Oxton Park
Woolmark's 60th in China
Patrick Cripps and the Fibre of Football
Carbon and wool - An explanation
Trail feeding lambing ewes
Protecting your flock from flystrike
New England MLP
Emerging markets: Vietnam
Woolmark going into bat for wool in Europe
Japan and Korea market for wool
Francesco Magri: Italy and wool
Jeff Ma: China and wool
Wayne Perkins, a shearing innovator
Winning With Weaners
Anna Speer and regenerative ag
Nanjing Wool market conference
Biological harvesting field day
Alex Ball puts it in our court
Regenerative Agriculture under the microscope.
Scott Carmody on medium term optimism for wool
AWI GM research: Bridget Peachey
Simply Merino
Biological harvesting of wool, Philip Hynd
MLP Macquarie’s final fling
Kondinin talks shed, yard design, sheep handlers
Ian Shippen: shearing solutions
Sustainability and wool: the next frontier
The expansion of domestic wool processing: Waverley Mills
2023 wool market: where to from here?
World’s greatest female shearer: Cathy Wendelborn
Wild Dog mythbusting
Bernard Salt’s challenge to Australian agribusiness
AWI AGM highlights
Domestic processing: dream or reality
Jamie Lillie of Fox and Lillie exports
Sportscraft and wool
The Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP)
Foot and Mouth Disease Augmented Reality
Carryology USA discovers the source of Merino
Voice of the future
Data supporting and building trust in industry
School wether competition success
State of the Art 3D knitting on farm
Ed Storey, WoolProducers Australia president: FMD, SSF and the state of wool
Wool back at Premiere Vision
Foot and Mouth special: your sheep and wool questions answered
TEM and the wild west
The superfine master
Biological defleecing: the next generation
Barber’s Pole: clear and present danger
Wool harvesting technology day: Falkiner Memorial Field Station
Global demand, new processing, wool harvesting
Wool supply and demand: the latest news from both ends
Rethinking investment on farm
New shearing tech at field days
The_world’s biggest sheep experiment.
Wearable Tech: keeping shearers shearing
Geoff Power: industry champion
Slowing the development of flystrike chemical resistance
The Young Wool Group
New catch and deliver trialled in woolsheds
The 21st Century Wild Dog Tree
Wool’s achievements in 2021 and hopes for 2022
Homespun: the new Australian series in a woolgrowing community
Voting online for the 2021 AWI AGM
Carbon Accounting with new Nuffield scholar
Make The Label Count; the most important wool campaign ever?
Kangaroo Island recovery, with a surprise
Shearing innovation: can catch + drag be eliminated? And the digital tally counter!
Containment/confinement feeding
AWI Board Q+A and the school wether challenge
Breeding Leadership
Woolpoll and a sheep handling legend
2021 Review of Performance
Farmers helping farmers
The UK and Europe post COVID: what for wool?
New AWI Chairman Jock Laurie
Ross Wells OAM
The world’s biggest fleece competition turns 50
The next wool selling season; what’s the outlook?
EU labelling problem
Q&A for WoolQ
Its Super-fine
The Sheep Geek (self-confessed)
Merinos winning in a changing landscape
Real Farmers with Real Agritech= solving problems + lifting profits
Australian Made Week; buy local, support local
Voices of the Wool Industry
Joining Ewe Lambs
Wool production and WoolQ
Revisiting the USA
Sheep Sustainability Framework
Pasture legumes to feed livestock and crops
Where to for wool post COVID
Burying wool and stereotypes
The fence that’s saving the outback
What shearing shortage?
Merinos reduce cropping risks
The business in building a shearing shed
Taking a chance with wool and winning
Flies and worms in a wet summer
Marketing wool during COVID
How blockchain could revolutionise wool
A strong start to 2021 fr the wool market
A new path to farm ownership
Yacker; a new way for farmers to communicate
Managing your flock over summer
Where have all the shearers gone?
The nutritional value of crop stubbles
Wool2030: a brighter future for Australian woolgrowers
Making EID work
The editor behind Beyond the Bale
Highlights of the 2020 AGM
SafeSheds; The Shearing Shed Safety Program
The sheep industry at new price and low flock levels
Intensifying Merino operations: can you double?
AWI Young Breeders Challenge
Rams x The Yarn
Making Changes: Change Makers
Ram Ready with Dr Michylla Seal
From shearing school to Shanghai
Woolmark in America
A Shortage of Shearers – but is it all bad?
The twin Merino lambing shed
The Yarn: the next Hugh McKay
Ag education: wether challenge success
Woolgrower to Wool Market
MJ Bale on changing demand for wool
Legumes for Livestock
Masks and online ram sales
Merinos planting crops
Resisting resistance
Persistence of wool marketing
Upgrading your shearing office
Precision lambing
This week it’s all about what is happening in Asia.
The Science of Wool
Gaining genetic ground with an MLP milestone
What’s the supply, and what’s the demand?
The Yarn: The need for green feed
Smart solar tags: real time monitoring of sheep
Ian McLachlan: wool industry elder
A Plan for Predators
Shearing in isolation
Future-proofing the Wool Industry
A crucial COVID-19 update from China
The marriage of sheep and cropping
COVID-19; Challenging the Wool Market
Progressing with Flystrike Research
Adversity to Opportunity; Controlling Feral Species After Natural Disasters
Fire Recovery: Let’s Start Again
Coronavirus and the Australian wool trade
The Positives of Drought
Bushfires: Emergency Livestock Safety and Recovery
The Dawn of Australian Wool; the Origins of the First Fabric
AWI CEO on 2019 and hope for 2020
Shearing and Wool Handling; a profession, a sport or both?
Young guns fire for wool
Australian wool and the USA
Studying Shearing Muscle and Rangeland Management
The Chairman’s Address
Gucci and Versace: why these iconic brands choose wool
2019 Nanjing Wool Market ‘Conference of Confusion’
Lifting reproduction and broad wool marketing
New shearing shed designs and wool’s wellness attributes
MAKING SHEEP EASIER
The_Yarn EP 100
Winning with wool dedication
An ugly wool market restart: why?
A fashion journalist’s love for wool
Magnificent Maidens: lambing ewes at 12 months
Persistent pastures and plugging feed gaps
Smart Tags and WoolQ: the future of wool
The 100% solar-powered woolshed
Wool around the world
Risky business
50 years of service to the West Australian agricultural industry
Educating the future of wool; the NMC
Secrets of a Kelpie Master
Supply, Demand and Asia: where wool dragons drive demand.
Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) Project Update
Regenerative agriculture: fad or the future?
We Wool Win at the Boston Marathon
Rebuilding a giant: the Qld wool industry
How to plan and execute practical change
Merino Management
Lessons in and out of the shearing shed
The Live Sheep Trade
Why have sheep in a cropping system?
The Road to Balranald
Droughts, floods but optimism in QLD
Fashion Secrets Explained
Craig Wilson’s career as a Merino consultant
Wool market update: Jan 2019
Flock to Baggy Green
Nigel Kerin
Who’s teaching the next gen about wool?
3D printing - could this lead to robotic shearing?
Is the China-US trade war affecting our wool market?
Woolgrowers from both sides of the world
What does industry think about WoolPoll?
A humble shepherd and internationally acclaimed author
Drought
Woolmark Performance Challenge
IWP designer making waves
New WoolQ Functionality
The challenge of growing wool in Africa
Nicholson’s Nuffield
Barking up the right tree
Another Record High
Social license, what is it to the wool industry?
Our farming future with robots
Cockies head back to school
Fibre of Footy
The blueprint of fly genomes and lamb survival
Breech Flystrike RD & E Technical Update
Where is the industry heading?
Review of Performance
The Future
Robotic shearing: can it become a reality?
Connecting the dots
Sexed Semen – intrigued? You should be
Why Wool? Behind the scenes of Wool Week
Wild days for wool
The National Merino Challenge
Where is Lesotho?
Two Merino women with very different viewpoints.
China Connection
Making headway with scanning
The World Merino conference in Uruguay
Marathon runners Won With Wool
Ewe are what ewe eat
The.global reach of Australian wool
Non mulesed operations
WoolQ: the digital future for wool selling
Young wool optimists
Australia’s biggest sheep experiment: the MLP
Wool and Sport
Chinese supermodel/designer visits farm
The_Genius of wool design: hear the IWP winners
United States of wool: hear what major retailers say about wool
Wool at $20, why? Hear the optimism around our fibre
Provence
Demand and Supply
The Business of Wool
India, Hong Kong and the wool market
It’s Ewe Time
Dr Jane Littlejohn and the digital potential
Lifetime Ewe App
Australian wool in Italy
Nuffield scholarship
AFL Kevin Sheedy
To sell or keep, what do the experts say?
Burberry sourcing tour
wool in Turkey
From the outback to the Himalayas
The man who dressed India’s Prime Minister
why Adidas loves wool
Korea, a market for wool?
How does AWI measure success
Wool, a staple in activewear
AWI grower networks
Bullish in a British way
Word from China
Wool’s therapeutic qualities
Why do we invest in Fashion?