Australian farmers are desperately searching for sheep shearers, with the average worker raking in $100,000 a year, without qualifications, for a four day work week.
Wool growers are desperate to attract young people to the lucrative industry with New Zealand workers unable to travel to Australia and more sheep needing to be shorn than usual.
However, a shearer of 32 years experience has warned it s a physically demanding job and which requires months spent away from home working in the hot summer heat.
Australian farmers want young people to consider a career in sheep shearing (pictured, Rachel Pritchard shearing a sheep in Dubbo, NSW earlier this week)
The Australian wool industry may soon be able to trace the lifetime journey of authentic wool products, thanks to a new partnership. Everledger, a digital transparency company, and Australian Wool Innovation have announced a strategic collaboration.
AWI will use the Everledger transparency platform to capture and make visible secure information about wool provenance and its supply chain to create new.
Chinese buyers led the way in purchases of Australian wool at recent auctions, despite concerns that exports of wool could be dampened by the recent strong rise in the Australian dollar.