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24 April 2002
The Australian wool industry is to continue its aggressive push into using new science and technology to create further opportunities for Australian wool, with the decision today to underwrite a series of postdoctoral fellowships and PhD scholarships over the next three and a half years.
10 April 2002
The Australian Wool Innovation advisory groups - the Wool Advisory Group and the Women in Wool - will be combined into a single body, following the demerger of AWI from its parent company, Australian Wool Services.
11 April 2002
The development and design of a sequential mobile wool harvesting system is well advanced with a prototype likely to be presented to industry within twelve months, the Board of the Australian Wool Innovation company, ShearExpress Pty Ltd announced today.
1 April 2002
The development of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) is unlikely to have any real impact on Australian wool exports, an Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) study has found.
12 April 2002
Animal health, exotic disease and the welfare of sheep flocks are the central elements of a draft ten year Strategic Plan for the Australian Wool Innovation Animal Health Program that was released for public comment today.
16 April 2002
Australian Wool Innovation has welcomed news today that wool is again flowing into China, following the resolution of technical difficulties associated with the new quota application system.
22 April 2002
The belief that an expansion of wool processing and manufacturing in Australia will benefit wool producers is to be put to the test, with an Australian Wool Innovation research study now commissioned to examine the issue.
23 April 2002
Australian shorn wool production is predicted to decline to 520 million kg greasy in 2002/03 - a 5% fall on the revised forecast of shorn wool production for 2001/02 of 550 million kg greasy and the lowest level of production in over 50 years.