Last week a delegation from Vietnam, including members of the Nam Dinh province Peoples Committee and representatives of Cat Tuong Group visited Australia to promote investment opportunities. Cat Tuong Group is a real estate development company that has been tasked with development of the Aurora Industrial Park within am Dinh Province. The Aurora Industrial Park was assessed as a potential site for early-stage processing of Australian wool as part of the Agricultural Trade an

Hi, I’m Makaela Knapp, Western Australia’s (WA) Director for WoolProducers Australia and I have held this role for just over a year. What a year in agriculture and policy it has been! The biggest challenge for WA producers has been the announcement of the phase-out date for the live sheep trade, a critical component of our sheep industry. It has long been said that Australia was built on the sheep’s back and yet today agriculture often feels forgotten. We are increasingly h

The Federal Government has continued to demonstrate how out of touch it is with Australia’s sheep and wool industry by not delivering on an essential trade policy program for Australia’s multi-billion wool industry, according to WoolProducers Australia. WoolProducers had asked for a modest $2 million over three years to establish a Wool Trade Policy program to continue the trade expansion work that has been identified for the wool industry by WoolProducers in their ‘Ensurin