LEADING ethical wool marketer, the New Zealand Merino Company, has suspended two farms from its ZQ program after anti-wool activist group PETA released video footage of alleged cruel treatment of ...

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One of south west Queensland's early adopters of exclusion fencing may not have been on the bulk buyers list at the Mt Ascot ...

AUSTRALIA’S auction wool market has started 2025 with an exchange rate-driven increase in prices for fleece and oddments, but ...

So, what makes alpaca wool different from Merino wool (a kind of sheep wool)? Alpaca wool is softer and hypoallergenic, so it doesn’t share the itch that some sheep wool yarns have. It’s also ...

In a summary of the investigation published on its website, Peta alleged animals sustained injuries and wounds, claimed ...

New gross margin calculations have shown that prime lamb production and replacement purchases emerged as the top-performing sheep enterprises of 2024 ...

The New Zealand Merino Company says it will investigate claims of animal cruelty by an animal rights group – and could expel farms from its ethical wool accreditation programme if it finds they’ve ...