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 ...

From this year, one student enrolled in TasTAFE’s Certificate IV wool-classing course could be reimbursed the full $1950 fee. To be short-listed for the scholarship — backed by the Calvert brothers’ ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Retired stock agent Alistair Eckhoff - somewhat of a legend in Central Otago - has notched up 50 consecutive years of wool-classing this season. He has no intention of retiring from it either, ...