The trend is mostly being seen in the crossbred wool sector, where producers are cutting costs and not employing classers, and is increasing in the Merino types. Australian Wool Exchange chief ...
HETTINGER, N.D. - If left unshorn, a sheep's wool will simply never stop growing, until the animal can no longer move. To prevent the countryside from being littered with indolent, bleating balls of ...
"We have 20 students learning how to shear sheep and 15 here for the wool classing certification," said Chris Schauer, director of the NDSU Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC), and coordinator ...
Female wool classer dedicates three decades of service to shearing sheds on remote Tasmanian islands
Kate Mooney is a long-time Flinders Island resident who decided wool classing was a sound career to pursue, to enable her to live on the island she loves. Now, 30 years later, she still works as a ...
MOST 18-year-olds spend their holidays at the pub or beach or nightclub, or all of the above. But there’s only one place Zack Currie wants to be. “I’ll be going home to work in the wool shed,” Zack ...
The Southern Institute of Technology has yet to replace its wool classing tutors and semester two starts in July. Photo / RNZ / Tessa Charles The future of wool classing education is up in the air, ...
Southern Institute of Technology’s recent appointment of two new tutors with a specialist set of skills ensures the continuation of their qualification, the New Zealand Certificate in Wool Technology ...
Retired stock agent Alistair Eckhoff - somewhat of a legend in Central Otago - has notched up 50 consecutive years of wool-classing this season. He has no intention of retiring from it either, ...
The deadline to register for the Kansas Wool Classing School is Sept. 30. The class is scheduled to take place at the Kansas State University Sheep and Meat Goat Center in Manhattan, Kansas, from 8 ...
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