In all other states the Act is the legal document and the Code informs whether or not a 'cruelty' offence has been committed.

Regards,

Allan

Let us see more wool products on shelves to suit the every day market, shirts, trousers, sox etc at a reasonable price.

Also the paper still showed lambs lost weight and the retailers have supported the industry on the basis (actually fully signed off by AWGA twice!) that mulesing would be phased out by 2010.

Sounds like politics to me.

While the Australian wool industry is battling to get one or more practical, pain-free alternatives to surgical mulesing, this practise is virtually non-existent in South Africa.

Selection against skin pleats has made the operation unnecessary on the vast majority of our farms.

While cropping farmers are suffering the effects of drought, grain prices are at record highs while wool prices are languishing at all time lows.

People need food, the world uses grains in millions of food products.

The only way wool will benefit is by default as a by-product of meat production.

Is there education to the processor on the difficulties of the harvest proccess?

The money earmarked for reinvigorating the brand would be better spent on new branding that only meets the highest standard and can guarantee excellent washing and wearing performance.

Not a brand that basically just says its wool.

If the industry continues to go down that path, as it apparently is intent on, we are finally at the end game for the industry as a major textile.

They both use the same old cliches about adding value, acquiring professional expertise and significant assets.

Are they claiming that the past expenditure of billions of AUS$, NZ$ and SA$s through the IWS on generic wool promotion was non proffessional??? Get real!!!

It seems they are advocating pouring more money down a black hole.

That's good for the non-productive sectors such as marketers and corporate relations consultants, but history tells us wool growers get little or no financial benefit from increased wool prices at the farm gate.

Woolgrowers must have learnt by now that in order to capture a share of the "true added value" as wool passes through the supply pipeline to consumer products they need to take individual responsibility and form alliances/JV's with manufacturers.

While woolgrowers continue to sell their wool clip as soon as it is harvested, passing ownership to someone else, they will always remain price takers not price setters.

Continuing to support compulsory levies for generic promotion will only keep the highly paid bureaucracy and politicians on the gravy train.

They require re-mustering, adjustment and extra mustering.

Extra mustering is extra stress on both ewes and lambs at a time of the year in which they don't need it.

300 lambs a day is not an efficient use of work force, which is harder to find every year.

Use of TriSolfen, on the other hand, does not slow down conventional mulesing and requires no re-mustering.

Re-mustering in wet, boggy sheep yards is the last thing anybody needs.