Aching knees and a sore back, coupled with providing encouragement for his son, inspired Indigenous shearer Garry Pittman to tackle wool classing at Dubbo TAFE. After leaving school at the age of 15 ...

Kate Mooney is a long-time Flinders Island resident who decided wool classing was a sound career to pursue, to enable her to live on the island she loves. Now, 30 years later, she still works as a ...

“Wool classing has always been in our family, my dad is a wool classing teacher, and now that I’ve been involved in my partner’s farm with fine wool Merinos … I’ve started learning,” Anna said. Based ...

And it was Audra Field, from Mudgee in NSW, who beat what was regarded as the strongest field from across Australia to win the title of ­national graduate wool classer of the year. Ms Field has ...

HETTINGER, N.D. - If left unshorn, a sheep's wool will simply never stop growing, until the animal can no longer move. To prevent the countryside from being littered with indolent, bleating balls of ...

Southern Institute of Technology’s recent appointment of two new tutors with a specialist set of skills ensures the continuation of their qualification, the New Zealand Certificate in Wool Technology ...

The Southern Institute of Technology has yet to replace its wool classing tutors and semester two starts in July. Photo / RNZ / Tessa Charles The future of wool classing education is up in the air, ...

The deadline to register for the Kansas Wool Classing School is Sept. 30. The class is scheduled to take place at the Kansas State University Sheep and Meat Goat Center in Manhattan, Kansas, from 8 ...

Two- and three-day courses now accepting applications The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will be holding the annual Wool Handling School Jan. 4-5 and the Certified Wool Classing School Jan. 4-6 ...