R&D update
R&D update keeps you in touch with AWI's R&D and innovation outcomes and demonstrates what is happening to ensure wool's position as the environmentally friendly, ethically produced fibre of choice.
2008
9 Sep - 'Painless' version of mulesing close (The Sydney Morning Herald online, new window)
8 Sep - New flystrike treatments leave no open wound
29 Aug - Jabs new hope in mulesing row (The West Australia online, new window)
21 Aug - AWI weeks away from alternative (56Kb pdf, new window)
15 Aug - Trial results support genetic alternative to mulesing (345Kb pdf, new window)
15 Aug - Bare-breech trait proving highly heritable (390Kb pdf, new window)
14 Jul - Industry set to move on to a new era in flystrike management
14 Jul - Formal trials demonstrate flystrike Clips ‘on track’ for 2010
25 Jun - Gene map may show way for strike against blowflies (farmonline, new window)
15 Apr - Genetic alternatives to mulesing – new expert panel to convene
3 Apr - Clips give 3 kilo gain (1.3Mb pdf, new window)
27 Mar - Flystrike study exposes wrinkles (130Kb pdf, new window)
20 Mar - Progress to end mulesing by 2010 on track
19 Mar - AWI Board unanimously confirms support for industry decision to phase out mulesing
19 Mar - AWI confirms the facts
18 Mar - Clips viewed from the front line
6 Mar - Mulesing soap solution closer (81Kb pdf, new window)
29 Feb - Intradermal research hones in on new compound
27 Feb - RSPCA Letter to the Editor - Weekly Times (40Kb pdf, new window)
21 Feb - Naked truth on bare breeches (94Kb pdf, new window)
10 Jan - Clip trials near completion (97Kb pdf, new window)
8 Jan - AWI releases tools for growers and retailers as part of settlement
2007 R&D archive
2006 R&D archive
2005 R&D archive
Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI) is a fully independent public company limited by shares and owned by Australian woolgrowers.
AWI initiates, commissions and delivers research and development (R&D) to Australian woolgrowers. AWI's primary aim is the adoption of technology on-farm and along the global wool pipeline.
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