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 ...

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 ...

IS this Australia’s oldest wool classer? At 90 years young Keith Ward, of Sorell, is still going strong. “A lot has changed in the industry since I started out as a kid working the circuit from Wool ...

Yet for Austin Grace, the process of learning more about the wool industry was the real reward in completing his classing stencil. Austin, 24, won the Australian graduate wool classer of the year ...

Life skills such as budgeting and self-care will be incorporated in shearer and wool classer qualifications under proposed changes to wool harvesting training programs. National sheep and wool writer ...

Tina Elers at work on a classing table at a farm in the Caroline Valley. Photo / Ken Muir For Mataura wool classer Tina Elers, being a wool classer is part of a life-long family journey in the ...

Wool classer Anne-Marie Parcell, of Bannockburn, has received a merino merit award for the clip she classed at Northburn Station, near Cromwell. Photo / Y'vonne O'Hara Wool has always been part 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 ...

A COROWA wool classer has earned one of the top accolades in the industry. Rural journalist with Fairfax media based in the Riverina.