AWEX has provided advice on how to best class wool from sheep on bushfire-hit properties.

The wool market had an encouraging resumption to sales after the Christmas break with the EMI climmbing above the 1600c barrier.

The Eastern Market Indicator nudged up another six cents yesterday as the wool market's positive start to 2020 continued.

The wool market has opened 2020 on a positive note with the EMI lifting 79 cents to 1637c a kilogram clean.

Ina first for the industry a Dubbo-based wool broker has made the submission of a grower-signed National Wool Declaration a condition of sale.

The distance of toilets from the workplace, and the need for gender separation, brought as much animated debate as lighting placement and grating types when producers gathered for a shearing shed design workshop in Longreach.

For Chinchilla's Schoff family, working in shearing sheds runs in the blood.

A decade ago, sheep graziers in Queensland's south west and central west were struggling to sleep at night, knowing that in the morning they would drive around and see more of their ewes and lambs lying dead or maimed from wild dog attacks.

In a decade, the wool industry in Queensland has gone from the depths of despair to being able to lay claim to being the most profitable industry in the state's rangelands.

The Australian wool industry enjoyed a turbulent but relatively profitable time during the past decade.