The Yarn

By Australian Wool Innovation Pty Ltd

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What do luxury fashion in Paris and a farm near Burra have in common? Wool! Join us as we explore wool’s global supply chain; speaking with woolgrowers, manufacturers, designers and everyone in between, about how they're working with the world's miracle fibre. If you have feedback or a question you would like to raise as part of The Yarn podcast, please email The Yarn at theyarn@wool.com.

Episode Date
Woolmark going into bat for wool in Europe
Mar 22, 2024
Japan and Korea market for wool
Feb 29, 2024
Francesco Magri: Italy and wool
Feb 14, 2024
Jeff Ma: China and wool
Jan 31, 2024
Wayne Perkins, a shearing innovator
Nov 29, 2023
Winning With Weaners
Nov 29, 2023
Anna Speer and regenerative ag
Nov 07, 2023
Nanjing Wool market conference
Oct 18, 2023
Biological harvesting field day
Sep 07, 2023
Alex Ball puts it in our court
Aug 11, 2023
Regenerative Agriculture under the microscope.
Jul 06, 2023
Scott Carmody on medium term optimism for wool
Jun 02, 2023
AWI GM research: Bridget Peachey
Apr 27, 2023
Simply Merino
Apr 12, 2023
Biological harvesting of wool, Philip Hynd
Mar 28, 2023
MLP Macquarie’s final fling
Mar 15, 2023
Kondinin talks shed, yard design, sheep handlers
Mar 09, 2023
Ian Shippen: shearing solutions
Feb 23, 2023
Sustainability and wool: the next frontier
Feb 09, 2023
The expansion of domestic wool processing: Waverley Mills
Feb 02, 2023
2023 wool market: where to from here?
Jan 27, 2023
World’s greatest female shearer: Cathy Wendelborn
Jan 10, 2023
Wild Dog mythbusting
Dec 20, 2022
Bernard Salt’s challenge to Australian agribusiness
Dec 04, 2022
AWI AGM highlights
Nov 23, 2022
Domestic processing: dream or reality
Nov 10, 2022
Jamie Lillie of Fox and Lillie exports
Oct 20, 2022
Sportscraft and wool
Oct 14, 2022
The Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP)
Oct 04, 2022
Foot and Mouth Disease Augmented Reality
Sep 21, 2022
Carryology USA discovers the source of Merino
Sep 15, 2022
Voice of the future
Sep 11, 2022
Data supporting and building trust in industry
Sep 01, 2022
School wether competition success
Aug 26, 2022
State of the Art 3D knitting on farm
Aug 11, 2022
Ed Storey, WoolProducers Australia president: FMD, SSF and the state of wool
Jul 28, 2022
Wool back at Premiere Vision
Jul 14, 2022
Foot and Mouth special: your sheep and wool questions answered
Jul 07, 2022
TEM and the wild west
Jun 30, 2022
The superfine master
Jun 23, 2022
Biological defleecing: the next generation
Jun 14, 2022
Barber’s Pole: clear and present danger
Jun 02, 2022
Wool harvesting technology day: Falkiner Memorial Field Station
May 19, 2022
Global demand, new processing, wool harvesting
May 12, 2022
Wool supply and demand: the latest news from both ends
Apr 28, 2022
Rethinking investment on farm
Apr 06, 2022
New shearing tech at field days
Mar 27, 2022
The_world’s biggest sheep experiment.
Feb 03, 2022
Wearable Tech: keeping shearers shearing
Jan 27, 2022
Geoff Power: industry champion
Jan 18, 2022
Slowing the development of flystrike chemical resistance
Dec 23, 2021
The Young Wool Group
Dec 17, 2021
New catch and deliver trialled in woolsheds
Dec 10, 2021
The 21st Century Wild Dog Tree
Dec 02, 2021
Wool’s achievements in 2021 and hopes for 2022
Nov 25, 2021
Homespun: the new Australian series in a woolgrowing community
Nov 18, 2021
Voting online for the 2021 AWI AGM
Nov 08, 2021
Carbon Accounting with new Nuffield scholar
Nov 01, 2021
Make The Label Count; the most important wool campaign ever?
Oct 20, 2021
Kangaroo Island recovery, with a surprise
Oct 07, 2021
Shearing innovation: can catch + drag be eliminated? And the digital tally counter!
Sep 30, 2021
Containment/confinement feeding
Sep 23, 2021
AWI Board Q+A and the school wether challenge
Sep 16, 2021
Breeding Leadership
Sep 09, 2021
Woolpoll and a sheep handling legend
Sep 02, 2021
2021 Review of Performance
Aug 26, 2021
Farmers helping farmers
Aug 19, 2021
The UK and Europe post COVID: what for wool?
Aug 12, 2021
New AWI Chairman Jock Laurie
Aug 04, 2021
Ross Wells OAM
Jul 29, 2021
The world’s biggest fleece competition turns 50
Jul 22, 2021
The next wool selling season; what’s the outlook?
Jul 16, 2021
EU labelling problem
Jul 08, 2021
Q&A for WoolQ
Jul 01, 2021
Its Super-fine
Jun 24, 2021
The Sheep Geek (self-confessed)
Jun 17, 2021
Merinos winning in a changing landscape
Jun 10, 2021
Real Farmers with Real Agritech= solving problems + lifting profits
Jun 03, 2021
Australian Made Week; buy local, support local
May 28, 2021
Voices of the Wool Industry
May 20, 2021
Joining Ewe Lambs
May 13, 2021
Wool production and WoolQ
May 07, 2021
Revisiting the USA
Apr 29, 2021
Sheep Sustainability Framework
Apr 21, 2021
Pasture legumes to feed livestock and crops
Apr 15, 2021
Where to for wool post COVID
Apr 08, 2021
Burying wool and stereotypes
Apr 01, 2021
The fence that’s saving the outback
Mar 26, 2021
What shearing shortage?
Mar 17, 2021
Merinos reduce cropping risks
Mar 11, 2021
The business in building a shearing shed
Mar 04, 2021
Taking a chance with wool and winning
Feb 25, 2021
Flies and worms in a wet summer
Feb 18, 2021
Marketing wool during COVID
Feb 11, 2021
How blockchain could revolutionise wool
Feb 04, 2021
A strong start to 2021 fr the wool market
Jan 28, 2021
A new path to farm ownership
Jan 21, 2021
Yacker; a new way for farmers to communicate
Dec 23, 2020
Managing your flock over summer
Dec 23, 2020
Where have all the shearers gone?
Dec 23, 2020
The nutritional value of crop stubbles
Dec 23, 2020
Wool2030: a brighter future for Australian woolgrowers
Dec 16, 2020
Making EID work
Dec 10, 2020
The editor behind Beyond the Bale
Dec 03, 2020
Highlights of the 2020 AGM
Nov 26, 2020
SafeSheds; The Shearing Shed Safety Program
Nov 19, 2020
The sheep industry at new price and low flock levels
Nov 12, 2020
Intensifying Merino operations: can you double?
Nov 05, 2020
AWI Young Breeders Challenge
Oct 29, 2020
Rams x The Yarn
Oct 22, 2020
Making Changes: Change Makers
Oct 15, 2020
Ram Ready with Dr Michylla Seal
Oct 08, 2020
From shearing school to Shanghai
Oct 01, 2020
Woolmark in America
Sep 24, 2020
A Shortage of Shearers – but is it all bad?
Sep 18, 2020
The twin Merino lambing shed
Sep 10, 2020
The Yarn: the next Hugh McKay
Sep 03, 2020
Ag education: wether challenge success
Aug 27, 2020
Woolgrower to Wool Market
Aug 20, 2020
MJ Bale on changing demand for wool
Aug 12, 2020
Legumes for Livestock
Aug 07, 2020
Masks and online ram sales
Jul 31, 2020
Merinos planting crops
Jul 23, 2020
Resisting resistance
Jul 16, 2020
Persistence of wool marketing
Jul 09, 2020
Upgrading your shearing office
Jul 02, 2020
Precision lambing
Jun 25, 2020
This week it’s all about what is happening in Asia.
Jun 17, 2020
The Science of Wool
Jun 12, 2020
Gaining genetic ground with an MLP milestone
Jun 04, 2020
What’s the supply, and what’s the demand?
May 22, 2020
The Yarn: The need for green feed
May 14, 2020
Smart solar tags: real time monitoring of sheep
May 07, 2020
Ian McLachlan: wool industry elder
May 01, 2020
A Plan for Predators
Apr 23, 2020
Shearing in isolation
Apr 16, 2020
Future-proofing the Wool Industry
Apr 09, 2020
A crucial COVID-19 update from China
Mar 29, 2020
The marriage of sheep and cropping
Mar 19, 2020
COVID-19; Challenging the Wool Market
Mar 12, 2020
Progressing with Flystrike Research
Mar 04, 2020
Adversity to Opportunity; Controlling Feral Species After Natural Disasters
Feb 20, 2020
Fire Recovery: Let’s Start Again
Feb 12, 2020
Coronavirus and the Australian wool trade
Feb 03, 2020
The Positives of Drought
Jan 23, 2020
Bushfires: Emergency Livestock Safety and Recovery
Jan 08, 2020
The Dawn of Australian Wool; the Origins of the First Fabric
Dec 22, 2019
AWI CEO on 2019 and hope for 2020
Dec 16, 2019
Shearing and Wool Handling; a profession, a sport or both?
Dec 09, 2019
Young guns fire for wool
Dec 01, 2019
Australian wool and the USA
Nov 17, 2019
Studying Shearing Muscle and Rangeland Management
Nov 05, 2019
The Chairman’s Address
Oct 22, 2019
Gucci and Versace: why these iconic brands choose wool
Oct 14, 2019
2019 Nanjing Wool Market ‘Conference of Confusion’
Sep 29, 2019
Lifting reproduction and broad wool marketing
Sep 22, 2019
New shearing shed designs and wool’s wellness attributes
Sep 16, 2019
MAKING SHEEP EASIER
Sep 09, 2019
The_Yarn EP 100
Sep 02, 2019
Winning with wool dedication
Aug 26, 2019
An ugly wool market restart: why?
Aug 09, 2019
A fashion journalist’s love for wool
Aug 02, 2019
Magnificent Maidens: lambing ewes at 12 months
Jul 26, 2019
Persistent pastures and plugging feed gaps
Jul 22, 2019
Smart Tags and WoolQ: the future of wool
Jul 15, 2019
The 100% solar-powered woolshed
Jul 04, 2019
Wool around the world
Jun 28, 2019
Risky business
Jun 21, 2019
50 years of service to the West Australian agricultural industry
Jun 16, 2019
Educating the future of wool; the NMC
Jun 11, 2019
Secrets of a Kelpie Master
May 31, 2019
Supply, Demand and Asia: where wool dragons drive demand.
May 24, 2019
Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) Project Update
May 20, 2019
Regenerative agriculture: fad or the future?
May 10, 2019
We Wool Win at the Boston Marathon
May 03, 2019
Rebuilding a giant: the Qld wool industry
Apr 18, 2019
How to plan and execute practical change
Apr 05, 2019
Merino Management
Apr 01, 2019
Lessons in and out of the shearing shed
Mar 22, 2019
The Live Sheep Trade
Mar 15, 2019
Why have sheep in a cropping system?
Mar 08, 2019
The Road to Balranald
Mar 01, 2019
Droughts, floods but optimism in QLD
Feb 22, 2019
Fashion Secrets Explained
Feb 15, 2019
Craig Wilson’s career as a Merino consultant
Feb 08, 2019
Wool market update: Jan 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Flock to Baggy Green
Dec 16, 2018
Nigel Kerin
Nov 23, 2018
Who’s teaching the next gen about wool?
Nov 15, 2018
3D printing - could this lead to robotic shearing?
Nov 02, 2018
Is the China-US trade war affecting our wool market?
Oct 26, 2018
Woolgrowers from both sides of the world
Oct 18, 2018
What does industry think about WoolPoll?
Oct 12, 2018
A humble shepherd and internationally acclaimed author
Oct 04, 2018
Drought
Sep 27, 2018
Woolmark Performance Challenge
Sep 24, 2018
IWP designer making waves
Sep 13, 2018
New WoolQ Functionality
Sep 07, 2018
The challenge of growing wool in Africa
Aug 30, 2018
Nicholson’s Nuffield
Aug 24, 2018
Barking up the right tree
Aug 17, 2018
Another Record High
Aug 16, 2018
Social license, what is it to the wool industry?
Aug 13, 2018
Our farming future with robots
Aug 09, 2018
Cockies head back to school
Aug 06, 2018
Fibre of Footy
Aug 01, 2018
The blueprint of fly genomes and lamb survival
Jul 27, 2018
Breech Flystrike RD & E Technical Update
Jul 20, 2018
Where is the industry heading?
Jul 13, 2018
Review of Performance
Jul 09, 2018
The Future
Jul 05, 2018
Robotic shearing: can it become a reality?
Jun 29, 2018
Connecting the dots
Jun 21, 2018
Sexed Semen – intrigued? You should be
Jun 14, 2018
Why Wool? Behind the scenes of Wool Week
May 30, 2018
Wild days for wool
May 25, 2018
The National Merino Challenge
May 20, 2018
Where is Lesotho?
May 18, 2018
Two Merino women with very different viewpoints.
May 18, 2018
China Connection
May 10, 2018
Making headway with scanning
May 04, 2018
The World Merino conference in Uruguay
May 02, 2018
Marathon runners Won With Wool
Apr 17, 2018
Ewe are what ewe eat
Apr 15, 2018
The.global reach of Australian wool
Apr 05, 2018
Non mulesed operations
Mar 25, 2018
WoolQ: the digital future for wool selling
Mar 21, 2018
Young wool optimists
Mar 15, 2018
Australia’s biggest sheep experiment: the MLP
Mar 04, 2018
Wool and Sport
Feb 19, 2018
Chinese supermodel/designer visits farm
Feb 12, 2018
The_Genius of wool design: hear the IWP winners
Feb 04, 2018
United States of wool: hear what major retailers say about wool
Jan 15, 2018
Wool at $20, why? Hear the optimism around our fibre
Dec 18, 2017
Provence
Dec 03, 2017
Demand and Supply
Oct 08, 2017
The Business of Wool
Sep 19, 2017
India, Hong Kong and the wool market
Aug 31, 2017
It’s Ewe Time
Aug 16, 2017
Dr Jane Littlejohn and the digital potential
Aug 03, 2017
Lifetime Ewe App
Jul 09, 2017
Australian wool in Italy
Jun 22, 2017
Nuffield scholarship
Jun 08, 2017
AFL Kevin Sheedy
May 24, 2017
To sell or keep, what do the experts say?
May 01, 2017
Burberry sourcing tour
Apr 12, 2017
wool in Turkey
Mar 30, 2017
From the outback to the Himalayas
Mar 20, 2017
The man who dressed India’s Prime Minister
Mar 05, 2017
why Adidas loves wool
Feb 16, 2017
Korea, a market for wool?
Feb 02, 2017
How does AWI measure success
Jan 15, 2017
Wool, a staple in activewear
Dec 20, 2016
AWI grower networks
Dec 08, 2016
Bullish in a British way
Nov 23, 2016
Word from China
Nov 10, 2016
Wool’s therapeutic qualities
Oct 27, 2016
Why do we invest in Fashion?
Oct 26, 2016