
'A lot of knowledge being lost': Lack of wool education concerns experts
A lack of tertiary education is a huge concern for the wool sector.
A lack of tertiary education is a huge concern for the wool sector.
Southern Institute of Technology yet to replace tutors; semester two starts in July.
'Unless we get young people to come on board and show an interest, these crafts will die.'
It's the first time Alliance has asked farmers for capital in 32 years.
'I'm very happy to be associated with, and a grower of, one of the world’s best products.'
A woollen goods factory is defying the odds, in the process keeping a Kiwi village going.
Seventy sparkies helped get the factory re-opened at the height of the rebuild.
Not a bad effort for someone who reckoned he shore 'like s***'.
Farmers say harvesting wool costs twice what they are paid for the product.
There's a lot more to creative fibre groups than just knitting.
Nicola Wylie launched the bedding business Lora & Flok in September.
A quick look at what's happening in rural New Zealand.
Sisters behind Foxtrot Home design throws and blankets using wool from the family farm.
Sharon Lawton's flock fleece entry received 98.5 points out of 100 at the Wānaka A&P Show.
Judges were blown away by the quality of fleeces at Wānaka’s A&P show this year.
The Smiths are changing stocking ratios on their 370ha sheep and beef farm in Hillend.
You don’t get any more home grown than Tim and Esta Naylor’s range of jerseys.
Mark Patterson and Todd McClay will tour woolsheds across NZ over the next three months.
Founded in 1969, Classic Sheepskins is the last of its kind to operate entirely locally.
The target was 1611 - it was broken with more than half an hour to go.
New owner Justine Ross had described the property as being rundown and neglected.
Carpet company says having a physical store will boost the wool flooring market.
Summer shearing will see wool 'pouring in the doors'.
The Ahuriri-based wool-testing robot can work around the clock.
“It is such a premium product and the price doesn’t reflect that."
CEO says Bremworth will emerge a more adaptable organisation, despite cyclone challenges.
"We thought 'this is madness'."
A dozen jobs are on offer at wool carpet-maker Bremworth's Whanganui plant.
The 12-strong touring party trained 100 herders as part of the Share Mongolia Programme.
Critics unhappy synthetic carpet from a US company to be installed - rather than NZ wool.