The announcement of a long awaited Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the European Union (A-EU FTA) has been met with optimism from government and some non-ag industry sectors. Trade deals matter as they send important signals about economic partnership and shared values, but the A-EU FTA contains little improved value for ag, particularly for Australia’s red meat sector. But for Australia’s wool industry, the real test of this agreement will not be found in tariffs o

Welcome to 2026, it is heartening to start the year on a positive note with regards to the wool market, but I would also like to acknowledge the adversities that some of our growers faced over the summer period including those impacted by flooding, fires and dry conditions. In this month’s report, I will be taking a guess at a number of factors that I believe will impact the Australian wool industry over the next 12-months. After a bruising couple of years for woolgrowers and

The long road back home, to a career in Agriculture and Agriculture Advocacy. As a young child growing up on the family mixed farm in the Ganmain/Coolamon region in the eastern Riverina, I believed my course was set. I had finished school and had completed a farm management and wool classing course. Now home to a future in farming. I could not have been more wrong. It wasn't a bad plan, Dad wanted me home, the farm was not large, but there was plenty of work. Dad had just bou