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Challengers shoot down chairman's ticket
19/11/2008 | In a shock result for the wool industry, only Brian van Rooyen from the "chairman's ticket" has been re-elected to the board the Australian Wool Innovation annual general meeting in Perth.  | AWI well placed to withstand ... | AWI elections: Where to now for ...
AWI elections: Where to now for mulesing?
19/11/2008 | The wool industry's commitment to phase out the controversial practice of mulesing by 2010 is now under serious question following the cleanout of four incumbent directors from the board of AWI.   | High noon at AWI | Disunity, infighting holding ...
AWI well placed to withstand global financial crisis: CEO
19/11/2008 | Australian Wool Innovation has brought in a healthy operating surplus of $5.5 million and shareholders have been told that it is well placed to withstand the global financial crisis.   | Form guide for the AWI ... | Disunity, infighting holding ...
Vets say clips
19/11/2008 | The latest study into the viability of breech clips to replace mulesing suggests they could do the job.   | American vets hear breech clips ... | McLachlan re-appears, tries to ...
High noon at AWI
19/11/2008 | It's high noon for the would-be hired guns of the wool industry, with today's Australian Wool Innovation annual general meeting in the west set to go down as turning point in the industry's fortunes.  | CommentsComments (1) | Disunity, infighting holding ... | WoolProducers say corporate ...
Form guide for the AWI Directile Dysfunction Cup
18/11/2008 | The future of the wool industry will be run tomorrow at the Belmont Park Racecourse in Perth, WA. Who will you be puntin' on? Either way, the wool industry will get what it votes for. Growers not participating have no reason to complain.  | CommentsComments (2) | Disunity, infighting holding ... | WoolProducers say corporate ...
Wool’s EMI bounces back: up 5.9pc
14/11/2008 | Wool’s eastern market indicator bounced back by 5.9pc this week, recovering part of the market’s falls in recent weeks, following the collapse of world commodity markets during the financial upheaval.  | Brighter start to this week's ... | AWI uses 'guerilla tactics' in ...
14/11/2008 | American veterinarians are to be briefed this weekend on new research which shows the clips designed to reduce susceptibility to flystrike in Merino lambs have far less impact on the health and welfare of the lambs compared to that of mulesing.   | WoolProducers say corporate ... | Sheep producers want to change
McLachlan re-appears, tries to steady wool ship
14/11/2008 | Former Australian Wool Innovation chairman Ian McLachlan says the organisation he once ran will “come apart at the seams” if the incumbent directors are not voted in next week.  | CommentsComments (1) | WoolProducers say corporate ... | Sheep producers want to change
Disunity, infighting holding back wool industry: Burke
13/11/2008 | Tony Burke has fired a pull-your-socks-up message to directors at Australian Wool Innovation ahead of next week's board election, but concedes there's nothing the Government can do if the infighting continues.  | CommentsComments (7) | Sheep producers want to change | Let us finish the job: Van Rooyen
Brighter start to this week's wool sales
12/11/2008 | An upward trend has appeared at the first two wool sales of the week, with the eastern market indicator rising by 15 cents a kilogram.  | Don't be fleeced using genetic ... | Let us finish the job: Van Rooyen
AWI uses 'guerilla tactics' in Chinese online marketing
11/11/2008 | Australian Wool Innovation has launched its biggest marketing campaign in China for more than a decade, but this time it will use "guerilla techniques" to hone in on online communities with its Woolmark brand.   | CommentsComments (7) | Kate Joseph to lead Sheepmeat ... | October sheep and lamb output ...
11/11/2008 | WoolProducers is upping the ante in its push to have the 'chairman's ticket' re-elected to the the Australian Wool Innovation board, arguing that the international textile industry will be anxiously watching whether growers want the body led by a "genuine business culture".  | CommentsComments (5) | New leader for Sheep CRC Wool ... | Fletcher declares war on wool ...
Sheep producers want to change
11/11/2008 | About 85pc of sheep producers say they will change their farming practices as a result of attending workshops aimed at improving production, profitability and sustainability, according to Australian Wool Innovation.  | CommentsComments (1) | October sheep and lamb output ... | Stable lamb prices contrast ...
Don't be fleeced using genetic selection for bare breech
10/11/2008 | Selecting rams with a genetic history of bare breech in order to counter flystrike, need not come at the expense of other productive traits, according to the Australian Merino Sire Evaluation Association.  | CommentsComments (1) | New leader for Sheep CRC Wool ... | Fletcher declares war on wool ...
Let us finish the job: Van Rooyen
7/11/2008 | Woolgrowers have a critical choice to make regarding the future of Australian Wool Innovation Limited, their research, development, grower services and marketing company.  | CommentsComments (11) | Candidates: Who is David ... | Candidates: Who is Ken Boundy ...
Wool slips 2.4pc: EMI down to 723c/kg
7/11/2008 | The Australian wool market closed down 2.4pc on average, at sales in Newcastle, Melbourne and Fremantle this week.  | AWI on brink of collapse | Fletcher declares war on wool ...
New leader for Sheep CRC Wool Program
6/11/2008 | The Sheep CRC has appointed David Tester as its new Wool Program leader. He's spent the last eight years as general manager (manufacturing) at Macquarie Textiles Group in Albury, NSW - Australia’s largest vertical wool textile mill.  | Fletcher declares war on wool ... | AWI on brink of collapse
Candidates: Who is George Falkiner and what does he stand for?
6/11/2008 | I have asked all candidates for the Australian Wool Innovation board elections the same basic questions, these are George Falkiner's complete, unedited answers.
Candidates: Who is Meredith Sheil and what does she stand for?
6/11/2008 | I have asked all candidates for the Australian Wool Innovation board elections the same basic questions, these are Meredith Sheil's complete, unedited answers.   | CommentsComments (3)
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