Angora wool is the soft, silky and highly prized hair of the Angora rabbit. It's harvested periodically through the year by brushing or shearing the rabbit, and an ounce of high-quality angora wool ...

Innovative wool broker Geoffrey Beath, managing partner of Bryton Wool at Canowindra in NSW, has been filming his clients’ wool samples since 2009. But recently Mr Beath sold wool on behalf of clients ...

International prices for wool soared to new highs in 2017 thanks to demand from China. Is it enough to call it a boom? Amid record international wool prices, Australia’s long-struggling wool growers ...

Australian Wool Exchange figures show the amount of older wool being tested or retested is growing. In the past month about 5 per cent of all wool being tested was two years or older, while the ...

The president of Italian luxury textiles and menswear company Ermenegildo Zegna said yesterday Australian Wool Innovation, and its subsidiary The Woolmark Company, which represents growers in the ...

Hormonal assessment tools are important for determining the reproductive success of production animals. This study used non-invasive wool assessment to quantify changes in progesterone and cortisol ...

Sheep farmers could double their wool income and produce healthier lambs by shearing twice a year, according to University of Queensland (UQ) and Elders research. Researchers say twice-shorn ewes are ...