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Winton on sunset. The council and wild dog management group are hoping to boost the town's economy with a revival of the Merino sheep industry. Picture: OTB Group

A battalion of remote cameras is being installed across the Winton shire to give land managers a better idea of how wild dogs are making use of the landscape.

Winton tracking wild dogs

JOIN FORCES: The red meat industry says the fake food lobby is still determined to wreck conventional agriculture.

Not all Australian farmers are ready to buddy up to the fake food industry just yet.

Fake food industry needs to drop anti-livestock agenda

NOT THE CURE: Alone, the vaccine for FMD will not completely eradicate the disease. 

Australia will consider vaccines as part of the response strategy if FMD outbreak occurs.

FMD vaccine included in first response strategy

UPDATED: The new database contains valuable information on pedigree, on-farm and research data that is used to generate ASBVs from the LAMBPLAN, MERINOSELECT, KIDPLAN and DOHNE evaluations.

Analysis enhancements and revised database for Sheep Genetics.

Sheep Genetics gets a revamp

DEARER: Roy Russell, Mildura, was at last week's Ouyen sale where lambs were up to $10 ahead dearer, and mutton was $10-$20 dearer.

Lamb prices have recovered after dealing with an increase of supply last week, while mutton shows resilience.

Lamb prices rebound after giving in to increased supply

HEAT IT UP: In an FMD outbreak, contaminated wool should be stored at 4°C for four months, 18°C for four weeks or 37°C for eight days to eliminate the risk of FMD transmission through export. 

Australia learns from South Africa after the country suffers two outbreak of FMD in less than four years.

How will Australia's wool industry respond to an FMD outbreak?

MAKE PEACE: National Farmers' Federation vice president David Jochinke (centre) was a speaker at a fake food conference in Melbourne yesterday. He is pictured with Phil McFarlane from Australian Plant Proteins (left) and Dr Garry Rosewarne from Agriculture Victoria (right).

Fake food makers say they want to make friends with farmers or else people will starve.

Fake food industry wants to make friends with farmers

Four out of every ten lamb mince purchases are reported to contain toxoplasma bacteria.

Copy of Meat at supermarket landscape by Hayley Warden.JPG

Study finds four out of ten Australian lamb mince purchases contain disease causing parasites.

More than "meats" the eye in supermarkets

Last week the animal rights community claimed victory in pressuring Federal Labor into recommitting to a phase out of the live sheep exports industry (if they are elected).

Red meat producers warned a potential difficult road may lay ahead if Labour win government.

"Livelihoods depend on governments we can trust"

NO LIFT EXPECTED: The EMI is expected to trade between 1300c/kg and 1400c/kg for the remainder of 2022, down from the predicted 1350c/kg to 1500c/kg last month.

EMI predicted to ease as inflation spins out of control.

Sobering outlook for wool

THE REAL DEAL: Under the website's "Made for Life' tab, the campaign heralds the company's support of Australian woolgrowers committed to protecting the vibrant landscape we call home.

Sportscraft and The Woolmark Company release traceable Australian Merino wool collection.

Sportcraft launches new traceable wool collection

AWI director Georgia Hack believes there is significant demand growth in the luxury apparel sector and that is good news for producers. 

Generation Z tipped to save wool demand destruction with their love for high-end fashion and top quality products.

Generation Z tipped to save wool demand destruction

HEADS UP: WoolProducers Australia CEO Jo Hall said the impacts of FMD would be severe not just to the wool industry, not just agriculture, but our entire economy.

Wool industry experts warn a FMD outbreak in Australia would not only impact on the wool industry, but the entire economy.

FMD outbreak heeds warning to wool industry

Ms Hall said the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted consumer sentiments and growing awareness of where the products come from, underpinned by the mantra of 'buy once - buy well'.

Labour woes, declining ewe numbers and logistical constraints all significant to Australia's wool market.

Australian wool industry's biggest influences

WOOL BATTLE: Australia may be on top when it comes to wool production, but our Kiwi cousins are leading the way when it comes to market diversification. 

Data reveals our Kiwi neighbours have been trending away from China as their main export destination for wool since 2015.

Who's winning with wool?

MARKET DAY: Grant and Peter McPharlin, Balaklava, SA, with Nutrien agent Mel Haynes (middle), combing through young ewes at Jamestown, SA. 

Prices for heavy lambs are facing increasing pressure as the number of seasonally late lambs arriving on the market amplifies.

Pressure mounts as heavy lambs arrive late

MOVING ON UP: Australian sheep flock is predicted to grow as breeding ewe numbers jump by 3pc year-on-year to 1.1 million head.

Growing numbers for Australia's sheep flock as producers intent on increasing their numbers.

Growing intentions for Aussie sheep producers

Modiano Australia's wool buyer at the Western Wool Centre, Greg Horne, has retired after a 53-year career in the wool industry.

Modiano Australia's wool buyer Greg Horne retires after 53 years.

End of an era after 50-year wool career

Jon Hacker recently decided to venture back into breeding his own Merinos. 

Muckadilla producers find success shifting away from buying in wethers.

Breeding rather than buying in pays for Muckadilla producers

UNDER SCRUTINY: Australia's farming standards were closely examined by trade experts in the UK.

Australian animal activists consulted by United Kingdom before free trade deal with signed.

Australian farming standards probed before trade deal signed

EXPAND: Nick and Isabel Renters are excited to finish unpacking their new wool processing machinery from Italy. Picture: Lachlan Bence 

Great Ocean Road Woollen Mill, now known as GOR Woollen Mill, is in the process of relocating its alpacas to Burrumbeet and setting up new machinery in Delacombe.

Woollen mill set to be one of the largest in Australia

CARPET COLLAPSE: There has been a slight turnaround in sales for wool carpets reported in New Zealand.

A slight rise in wool carpet sales has New Zealand marketer hoping for a strong wool industry revival.

NZ's strong wool industry still hopes for a carpet revival

A private briefing to senators into WoolQ's future has still not been held.

Senators still have not had a key meeting about Australian Wool Innovation's troubled WoolQ platform, months after the idea of a private briefing was raised.

WoolQ briefing on hold

Ian Dadour and Cam Scadding CEO of Source Certain will be working on the flystrike project. 

Scientists plan to look into the science of what lures blowflies to sheep to create a new trap.

New trap could help in the fight against flystrike

Pip and Will Hacker at home at Muckadilla, just before heading to Sydney for the national junior sheep and wool judging. Picture: Linda Hacker

Brother and sister Will and Pip Hacker will be competing together at the national Merino sheep and wool junior judging titles in Sydney this week.

Siblings set for Sydney's junior judging rings

Prince Charles, patron of the Campaign for Wool, is featured in the new short film, Why Wool Matters. 

Prince Charles has thrown his weight behind the wool industry again, speaking in a new short film put out by the Campaign for Wool.

Prince Charles spruiks wool in new video

A Chinese ban on the importation of South African wool and sheep could have flow on effects for the Australian wool industry. 

China has banned the import of all cloven-hoofed animals and their products from South Africa.