on Tuesday, 1 November 2016 for the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday. As this is a metropolitan Melbourne public holiday, all other AWTA Raw Wool laboratories and regional operations will be open for business as usual on this day.
retaining more sheep this season. The Committee estimates that shorn wool production in 2015/16 was 325 mkg greasy, a fall of 6.1% on 2014/15. This is less than the 7% decline in the weight of wool tested by AWTA in 2015/16. This difference is due to...
forecasts that shorn wool production for 2015/16 will decline by 7.0% to 322 mkg. This reflects a combination of a 4.8% fall in shorn sheep numbers and a 2.3% drop in average fleece weights. The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee forecasts...
on Tuesday, 3 November 2015 for the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday. As this is a metropolitan Melbourne public holiday, all other AWTA Raw Wool laboratories and regional operations will be open for business as usual on this day.
competition, and had raised more than $100,000 over the past 14 years. "It's a great joint effort between the wool industry…all sectors are involved," she said. "We try to get a new charity each year for the competition." Ms Cordy said it was the...
tables due to the further development by FeedTest of the NIR calibration for analysis. The additional results include ADF on all hays and silages, WSC on cereal hays and starch results on the maize silages and certain grains. The additional results are...
Agrifood Technology offers a range of test packages for liming material, ranging from the full Code of Practice suite to smaller packages customised to clients’ specific requirements. The range of tests includes the assessment of the Neutralising Value,...
Mr Bennett is also involved in several key Merino benchmarking and performance testing events, including the Ovens Valley Wether Trial, which he has grown by 35 teams for next year’s incarnation. On winning the competition, he highlighted the importance...
in July 2014 have been sold at a charity Auction, raising almost $8,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation. The fleeces were all donated by wool growers and sold by Landmark. The Make-A Wish foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening...
available for purchasers. Wooltech can provide three types of core machine: Standard Twin Core, Semi-Auto Single Head Grab all in one frame (around 300 to 500 bales in a 7 hour day). Fast Twin Core, Semi-Auto Two Head Grab (around 500 to 800 bales in a...
predicts a consumer’s response – crucial information for next-to-skin fabric manufacturers. Wool ‘handle’ had traditionally been measured subjectively by judges, who often had differing views on a fabric’s smoothness, softness, warm feel, dry feel,...
the impetus for two major projects to be undertaken in AWTA’s WA laboratory facilities. The first project involved switching all on-site lighting to high-efficiency LED (light emitting diode) technology; the second was the installation of a 150 kW Solar...
such as Mohair, Alpaca and Cashmere and other ancilliary services such as the analysis of checmical residues, dark and meduallted fibre contaimination tests and fleece measurements. Our Raw Wool operations consist of testing laboratories in Melbourne...
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