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High Performance Merino Jacket ISSUE 77 DECEMBER 2018 PROFIT FROM WOOL INNOVATION www.wool.com HIGH PERFORMANCE MERINO JACKET 32 40 54 POLICE CHIEFS WEATHERING DROUGHT NUMNUTS NUMBS TARGETTED WITH REGENERATIVE AG NUTS (AND TAILS)! 22 AFL’S TOM HAWKINS 66 TRAINING FOR SHEARERS AT HOME WITH WOOL AND WOOL HANDLERS EDITOR Richard Smith OFF-FARM ON-FARM E [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITER 4 Getting on with business 38 AWI Graduate Training Program Lisa Griplas E [email protected] 5 AWI 2018 AGM 40 Weathering drought with regenerative ag 6 Live & breathe campaign 43 Grower innovations during drought Australian Wool Innovation Limited A L6, 68 Harrington St, The Rocks, 8 Elite athletes put wool to the test 43 Drought resources Sydney NSW 2000 9 Woolmark Optim WR jacket 44 Banking on Merinos GPO Box 4177, Sydney NSW 2001 P 02 8295 3100 10 PE Nation runs with wool 46 Wild dog coordinators E [email protected] W wool.com AWI Helpline 1800 070 099 11 Across Mongolia with Merino 47 Community-wide wild dog control SUBSCRIPTION 12 Woolmark Performance Challenge 48 Collaboration combatting invasives Beyond the Bale is available free. 14 Aussie wool receives eco award 49 Metabolic disorders To subscribe contact AWI P 02 8295 3100 E [email protected] 16 Yarns from Millpost Merino 50 Drought: what happens to worms? 17 Grower spotlight 52 Tell us your parasite management Beyond the Bale is published by Australian Wool Innovation Ltd (AWI), a company 18 Young designers at Sheepvention 53 Breech flystrike publications funded by Australian woolgrowers and the Strateas Carlucci continue with wool Australian Government. AWI’s goal is to help 18 54 Numnuts numbs nuts (and tails)! increase the demand for wool by actively 19 IWP winner visits Australia 56 Merino Sire Evaluation explained selling Australian wool and its attributes through investments in marketing, innovation 20 Tom Hawkins with Rodd & Gunn 58 Sire Evaluation made easy and R&D – from farm to fashion and interiors. 21 Farage gets airborne 59 Merino Bloodlines Performance COPYRIGHT 22 Campaign for Wool UK 60 R&D into profit per hectare Material in Beyond the Bale is copyright. 24 China’s New World Wool 61 Improving resilience in Merinos Reproduction of the material is encouraged. However prior permission must be obtained 25 Nanshan Wool Supremacy Trophy 62 Sexed semen via AI from the Editor. 26 Phillip Lim’s Merino Series 63 World’s oldest semen DISCLAIMER 26 Tim Coppens’ Merino sports-luxe 64 Winning with Weaners To the extent permitted by law, Australian Wool Innovation Ltd excludes all liability 27 Bergdorf Goodman in NYC 65 RAMping Up Repro for loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, the information contained in 28 Paris wool promotion 66 Silverleaf nightshade this publication. 28 Jacquemus’ Mediterranean vibes 67 Semi-robotic shearing The Woolmark symbol is a certification mark registered in many countries. 29 Zadig & Voltaire’s joie de vivre 68 Shearer training at Tambo © 2018 Australian Wool Innovation Ltd. All 29 KOCHÉ’s new collection 70 Competitions promote excellence rights reserved. 30 Tokyo’s Vogue Fashion’s Night Out 71 Woolmark Bale Stencil ADVERTISING SALES Steve Luxford, Pulse Hub Pty Ltd 31 Merino gets edgy in Japan 72 Young judges championships P 0429 699 553 32 Police Chiefs targeted with wool 73 Nuffield studies to boost Aussie flock E [email protected] Advertising is subject to terms and conditions 33 Running with wool shoes 74 EMI’s strong performance continues published on the ratecard, which is available from Pulse Hub. 34 Education highlights 75 WoolQ 36 Gieves & Hawkes By Royal Appointment 76 What’s the impact of forex? ISSN 1447-9680 37 Royal visit’s wool connections 77 Markets in need of stability FRONT COVER 78 Readers’ photos Pictured is the new range of Woolmark Optim WR jackets. The 100% Merino wool fabric used AWI INVESTMENT STRATEGIES in the jacket is water and wind resistant; the [email protected] fabric has been commercially launched and is Marketing Sheep Woolgrower being used in both the fashion and outdoor Production Services markets. The Woolmark Optim WR jacket has WOOL.COM Processing Innovation Business been produced exclusively to enable wool levy To subscribe to the free monthly AWI e-newsletter & Education Extension Services payers to experience the benefits of Merino wool for woolgrowers, and the weekly wool market review in an innovative way – see page 9 to find out how e-newsletter, visit www.wool.com/subscribe you can purchase it. WOOLMARK.COM instagram/BeyondTheBale facebook.com/TheWoolmarkCompany twitter.com/woolinnovation twitter.com/woolmark youtube.com/AWIWoolProduction instagram.com/TheWoolmarkCompany wool.com/podcast youtube.com/TheWoolmarkCompany This magazine is printed on PEFC View Beyond the Bale online with image galleries (Programme for the Endorsement of BtB Forest Certification) paper stock. and video at http://beyondthebale.wool.com GD3149 UPFRONT 3 A LETTER FROM THE NEW AWI CHAIRMAN Colette Garnsey OAM Chairman MS COLETTE GARNSEY OAM Australian Wool Innovation y name is Colette Garnsey, and I have the appropriate levy rate to be paying on We understand the drought conditions Mrecently been appointed as the new their wool sales at this time. However, we are affecting much of the industry and we Chairman of AWI. I would like to take are encouraged – indeed humbled – that acknowledge this will affect production this opportunity to provide you with an more than 90 per cent of woolgrowers see going forward. Let me reassure you there is update on the changes under way at AWI to the value in AWI’s work and are prepared no more important time for a strong AWI strengthen your company by ensuring you, to contribute towards our research, working to support woolgrowers. our woolgrowers, are at the forefront of development and marketing efforts on Our industry has a positive and everything we do. your behalf. prosperous future. As your Chairman, Firstly, let me thank and acknowledge The 1.5 per cent levy vote does not change I look forward to continuing to support the immediate past Chairman Mr AWI’s resolve to working in the best woolgrowers here in Australia and Walter Merriman for his leadership and interests of woolgrowers. We have the to taking their wool to the world contribution to the industry. Mr Merriman’s reserves to manage the balance sheet by continuing to build demand and vision for the industry was pivotal in and our operations will be managed to match positioning our beautiful fibre as the increasing the global demand and market our funding. As woolgrowers adjust to the natural fibre of choice for processors, access for Australian wool. seasonal conditions, so will AWI adapt to retailers and consumers around the globe. the democratic choice of our levy payers. I step into the role of Chairman knowing In doing this, we will make certain our the global demand for wool is stronger than operations continue to be transparent, lean ever, with our nation’s natural fibre desired and efficient. by processors, retailers and customers in all parts of the globe. This gives me a great sense of pride as I represent domestic woolgrowers to our international processors and retail brand partners. MS COLETTE GARNSEY OAM, My commitment to AWI’s goal is AWI CHAIRMAN unwavering. I am committed to listening and to ensuring your views are heard at Ms Garnsey was elected by AWI shareholders to the AWI Board on 8 Board level. As AWI enters a new phase, November 2011 and has been Deputy Chair since 2017. She was appointed my and the Board’s focus is on addressing as Chairman of the AWI Board on 9 November 2018 following Mr your concerns, on doing the right thing Merriman’s resignation as Chairman. by you, our levy payers, and on building a Ms Garnsey – whose early childhood was spent on sheep properties in stronger company for the benefit of the western NSW – has 39 years of retail, wholesale, distribution and marketing wool industry. experience with Australia’s top brands in multiple geographies. Currently she is Non Executive Director of Flight Centre Travel Group and until As a priority, we will do this by responding recently was a Trade, Tourism and Investment Policy Advisory Council to, and actioning, the 82 recommendations advisor to the Federal Government. of the Review of Performance commissioned by the Federal Government Previously Ms Garnsey was executive director at Premier Investments’s The and to working through the changes Just Group, and in senior executive positions at David Jones and Pacific required. The Board and the executive team Brands. She has had over 30 years’ experience in department stores and are committed to making these changes has dealt with globally successful brands and designers bringing many to a reality. Australia. Prior to AWI’s AGM we announced the Ms Garnsey has also been Advisory Board member of CSIRO 1997-2001; results of WoolPoll 2018; Australian Advisory Board member Australian Government Innovation Council 2010- woolgrowers have voted in favour of a 2012; Director Australian Fashion Week 1998-2009; Judge Veuve Clicquot wool levy of 1.5 per cent. We respect our Business Women of the Year 2008-2014. woolgrowers’ decision of 1.5 per cent and see that they believe a 1.5 per cent levy is 4 UPFRONT GETTING ON WITH BUSINESS We are continuing with initiatives to help increase the demand for wool through investments in marketing Stuart McCullough and R&D – from farm to fashion. Chief Executive Officer Australian Wool Innovation WOOLPOLL 2018 via their right to vote at the company’s on a 24/7 basis as well as an efficient, easy Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary to use online auction operating outside the Australian woolgrowers have voted in favour General Meetings.
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