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The Yarn — 284 episodes

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AWI’s new CEO Bryan Fry

2

XTM

3

Testing flystrike research with commercial flocks

4

Containment feeding

5

Breeding out sheep blowflies on KI

6

Know your enemy: protecting your flock against flystrike

7

George Millington: new AWI Chairman

8

Future leaders trip to China

9

IWTO President, Major wool processor and large woolgrower

10

An important time for woolgrowers

11

Planfarm

12

Woolgrower returns from Blue Earth summit

13

AWI Chairman at Bendigo

14

Jasmine Cox: The energy of a young grower

15

Mooralla Merinos

16

Woolmark +

17

Woolgrowers and retailers working together

18

Latest Wool Production Forecast

19

Paul O’Connor Oxton Park

20

Woolmark's 60th in China

21

Patrick Cripps and the Fibre of Football

22

Carbon and wool - An explanation

23

Trail feeding lambing ewes

24

Protecting your flock from flystrike

25

New England MLP

26

Emerging markets: Vietnam

27

Woolmark going into bat for wool in Europe

28

Japan and Korea market for wool

29

Francesco Magri: Italy and wool

30

Jeff Ma: China and wool

31

Wayne Perkins, a shearing innovator

32

Winning With Weaners

33

Anna Speer and regenerative ag

34

Nanjing Wool market conference

35

Biological harvesting field day

36

Alex Ball puts it in our court

37

Regenerative Agriculture under the microscope.

38

Scott Carmody on medium term optimism for wool

39

AWI GM research: Bridget Peachey

40

Simply Merino

41

Biological harvesting of wool, Philip Hynd

42

MLP Macquarie’s final fling

43

Kondinin talks shed, yard design, sheep handlers

44

Ian Shippen: shearing solutions

45

Sustainability and wool: the next frontier

46

The expansion of domestic wool processing: Waverley Mills

47

2023 wool market: where to from here?

48

World’s greatest female shearer: Cathy Wendelborn

49

Wild Dog mythbusting

50

Bernard Salt’s challenge to Australian agribusiness

51

AWI AGM highlights

52

Domestic processing: dream or reality

53

Jamie Lillie of Fox and Lillie exports

54

Sportscraft and wool

55

The Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP)

56

Foot and Mouth Disease Augmented Reality

57

Carryology USA discovers the source of Merino

58

Voice of the future

59

Data supporting and building trust in industry

60

School wether competition success

61

State of the Art 3D knitting on farm

62

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

63

Wool back at Premiere Vision

64

Foot and Mouth special: your sheep and wool questions answered

65

TEM and the wild west

66

The superfine master

67

Biological defleecing: the next generation

68

Barber’s Pole: clear and present danger

69

Wool harvesting technology day: Falkiner Memorial Field Station

70

Global demand, new processing, wool harvesting

71

Wool supply and demand: the latest news from both ends

72

Rethinking investment on farm

73

New shearing tech at field days

74

The_world’s biggest sheep experiment.

75

Wearable Tech: keeping shearers shearing

76

Geoff Power: industry champion

77

Slowing the development of flystrike chemical resistance

78

The Young Wool Group

79

New catch and deliver trialled in woolsheds

80

The 21st Century Wild Dog Tree

81

Wool’s achievements in 2021 and hopes for 2022

82

Homespun: the new Australian series in a woolgrowing community

83

Voting online for the 2021 AWI AGM

84

Carbon Accounting with new Nuffield scholar

85

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

86

Kangaroo Island recovery, with a surprise

87

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

88

Containment/confinement feeding

89

AWI Board Q+A and the school wether challenge

90

Breeding Leadership

91

Woolpoll and a sheep handling legend

92

2021 Review of Performance

93

Farmers helping farmers

94

The UK and Europe post COVID: what for wool?

95

New AWI Chairman Jock Laurie

96

Ross Wells OAM

97

The world’s biggest fleece competition turns 50

98

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

99

EU labelling problem

100

Q&A for WoolQ

101

Its Super-fine

102

The Sheep Geek (self-confessed)

103

Merinos winning in a changing landscape

104

Real Farmers with Real Agritech= solving problems + lifting profits

105

Australian Made Week; buy local, support local

106

Voices of the Wool Industry

107

Joining Ewe Lambs

108

Wool production and WoolQ

109

Revisiting the USA

110

Sheep Sustainability Framework

111

Pasture legumes to feed livestock and crops

112

Where to for wool post COVID

113

Burying wool and stereotypes

114

The fence that’s saving the outback

115

What shearing shortage?

116

Merinos reduce cropping risks

117

The business in building a shearing shed

118

Taking a chance with wool and winning

119

Flies and worms in a wet summer

120

Marketing wool during COVID

121

How blockchain could revolutionise wool

122

A strong start to 2021 fr the wool market

123

A new path to farm ownership

124

Yacker; a new way for farmers to communicate

125

Managing your flock over summer

126

Where have all the shearers gone?

127

The nutritional value of crop stubbles

128

Wool2030: a brighter future for Australian woolgrowers

129

Making EID work

130

The editor behind Beyond the Bale

131

Highlights of the 2020 AGM

132

SafeSheds; The Shearing Shed Safety Program

133

The sheep industry at new price and low flock levels

134

Intensifying Merino operations: can you double?

135

AWI Young Breeders Challenge

136

Rams x The Yarn

137

Making Changes: Change Makers

138

Ram Ready with Dr Michylla Seal

139

From shearing school to Shanghai

140

Woolmark in America

141

A Shortage of Shearers – but is it all bad?

142

The twin Merino lambing shed

143

The Yarn: the next Hugh McKay

144

Ag education: wether challenge success

145

Woolgrower to Wool Market

146

MJ Bale on changing demand for wool

147

Legumes for Livestock

148

Masks and online ram sales

149

Merinos planting crops

150

Resisting resistance

151

Persistence of wool marketing

152

Upgrading your shearing office

153

Precision lambing

154

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

155

The Science of Wool

156

Gaining genetic ground with an MLP milestone

157

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

158

The Yarn: The need for green feed

159

Smart solar tags: real time monitoring of sheep

160

Ian McLachlan: wool industry elder

161

A Plan for Predators

162

Shearing in isolation

163

Future-proofing the Wool Industry

164

A crucial COVID-19 update from China

165

The marriage of sheep and cropping

166

COVID-19; Challenging the Wool Market

167

Progressing with Flystrike Research

168

Adversity to Opportunity; Controlling Feral Species After Natural Disasters

169

Fire Recovery: Let’s Start Again

170

Coronavirus and the Australian wool trade

171

The Positives of Drought

172

Bushfires: Emergency Livestock Safety and Recovery

173

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

174

AWI CEO on 2019 and hope for 2020

175

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

176

Young guns fire for wool

177

Australian wool and the USA

178

Studying Shearing Muscle and Rangeland Management

179

The Chairman’s Address

180

Gucci and Versace: why these iconic brands choose wool

181

2019 Nanjing Wool Market ‘Conference of Confusion’

182

Lifting reproduction and broad wool marketing

183

New shearing shed designs and wool’s wellness attributes

184

MAKING SHEEP EASIER

185

The_Yarn EP 100

186

Winning with wool dedication

187

An ugly wool market restart: why?

188

A fashion journalist’s love for wool

189

Magnificent Maidens: lambing ewes at 12 months

190

Persistent pastures and plugging feed gaps

191

Smart Tags and WoolQ: the future of wool

192

The 100% solar-powered woolshed

193

Wool around the world

194

Risky business

195

50 years of service to the West Australian agricultural industry

196

Educating the future of wool; the NMC

197

Secrets of a Kelpie Master

198

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

199

Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) Project Update

200

Regenerative agriculture: fad or the future?

201

We Wool Win at the Boston Marathon

202

Rebuilding a giant: the Qld wool industry

203

How to plan and execute practical change

204

Merino Management

205

Lessons in and out of the shearing shed

206

The Live Sheep Trade

207

Why have sheep in a cropping system?

208

The Road to Balranald

209

Droughts, floods but optimism in QLD

210

Fashion Secrets Explained

211

Craig Wilson’s career as a Merino consultant

212

Wool market update: Jan 2019

213

Flock to Baggy Green

214

Nigel Kerin

215

Who’s teaching the next gen about wool?

216

3D printing - could this lead to robotic shearing?

217

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

218

Woolgrowers from both sides of the world

219

What does industry think about WoolPoll?

220

A humble shepherd and internationally acclaimed author

221

Drought

222

Woolmark Performance Challenge

223

IWP designer making waves

224

New WoolQ Functionality

225

The challenge of growing wool in Africa

226

Nicholson’s Nuffield

227

Barking up the right tree

228

Another Record High

229

Social license, what is it to the wool industry?

230

Our farming future with robots

231

Cockies head back to school

232

Fibre of Footy

233

The blueprint of fly genomes and lamb survival

234

Breech Flystrike RD & E Technical Update

235

Where is the industry heading?

236

Review of Performance

237

The Future

238

Robotic shearing: can it become a reality?

239

Connecting the dots

240

Sexed Semen – intrigued? You should be

241

Why Wool? Behind the scenes of Wool Week

242

Wild days for wool

243

The National Merino Challenge

244

Where is Lesotho?

245

Two Merino women with very different viewpoints.

246

China Connection

247

Making headway with scanning

248

The World Merino conference in Uruguay

249

Marathon runners Won With Wool

250

Ewe are what ewe eat

251

The.global reach of Australian wool

252

Non mulesed operations

253

WoolQ: the digital future for wool selling

254

Young wool optimists

255

Australia’s biggest sheep experiment: the MLP

256

Wool and Sport

257

Chinese supermodel/designer visits farm

258

The_Genius of wool design: hear the IWP winners

259

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

260

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

261

Provence

262

Demand and Supply

263

The Business of Wool

264

India, Hong Kong and the wool market

265

It’s Ewe Time

266

Dr Jane Littlejohn and the digital potential

267

Lifetime Ewe App

268

Australian wool in Italy

269

Nuffield scholarship

270

AFL Kevin Sheedy

271

To sell or keep, what do the experts say?

272

Burberry sourcing tour

273

wool in Turkey

274

From the outback to the Himalayas

275

The man who dressed India’s Prime Minister

276

why Adidas loves wool

277

Korea, a market for wool?

278

How does AWI measure success

279

Wool, a staple in activewear

280

AWI grower networks

281

Bullish in a British way

282

Word from China

283

Wool’s therapeutic qualities

284

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