According to the latest ABS data, year-to-June national lamb slaughter surpassed 12 million head for the first time on record.

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Researchers have made important progress towards developing a new vaccine for ovine footrot, a serious disease in sheep that causes severe economic loss, suffering due to lameness and disruption to normal farm operations.

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Peak woolgrower representative body, WoolProducers Australia is calling on Australian Wool Innovation to implement all recommendations made in the recent review of performance called by Minister Littleproud.

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A shift to value-based pricing brought on by the adoption of DEXA technology at meat processing plants could deliver up to $20 per carcase in added value to the supply chain.

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Merino ewe lambs averaged $136 and sold from $66 to $204 on AuctionsPlus last week.

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Almost 1,000 producers, researchers and industry stakeholders gathered in Perth last week for LambEx.

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Producers across southern Australia have relied on drought lots for their sheep over winter and, with continuing dry conditions forecast, are now looking at extending their use.

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The AWEX EMI closed on 1990c delivering a 9c increase for the week.

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Genetic selection for condition score (muscle and fat) is paying dividends during the drought with Merino sheep able to handle the challenge for NSW grower Chad Taylor.

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The latest genetic technologies combined with data recording and carcass quality is at the heart of the Focus Genetics breeding program, targeted at prime lamb program.

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Automated shearing could be the way of the future for shearing sheds around Australia following the launch of an Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) funded research project to automate wool harvesting from sheep.

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ASKBILL and its powerful predictive technologies are now available for use by sheep producers across Australia following its commercial launch at LambEx by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation (Sheep CRC).

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