Grower bodies still cool on plan for a revised National Wool Declaration

Vernon Graham
Updated February 25 2020 - 12:58pm, first published 12:30pm
BUM DECISION: The peak grower body, WoolProducers Australia, is pushing back on AWEX's attempts to revise the National Wool Declaration to include a category for alternative methods to mulesing.
BUM DECISION: The peak grower body, WoolProducers Australia, is pushing back on AWEX's attempts to revise the National Wool Declaration to include a category for alternative methods to mulesing.

The controversial push to add another category to the National Wool Declaration form to cater for alternative methods to surgical mulesing has gone to a third round of stakeholder consultations.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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