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Tackling Tough Times Webinar – Session 2
AWI Extension WA, together with Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, are excited to bring you two, one-hour webinars with a theme of 'Tackling Tough Times', designed to support you with decision-making and being proactive during challenging seasonal and market conditions, now and in the future.
Articles That Might Interest You
Smart Wool: Turning Tech Into Profit for WA Woolgrowers
Want to get more from tech without wasting money or time? In this article, Mark Ferguson shares how woolgrowers can turn tech into real profit—starting with the basics like pregnancy scanning and condition scoring. From capturing EID data at marking to applying the 80/20 rule on tech investments, it’s packed with practical, low-cost strategies to lift productivity.
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Smarter Shearing: How WA Woolgrowers Can Improve Productivity, Welfare and Shed Culture
This article shares how WA woolgrowers can achieve a more productive and safer shearing—covering shed preparation, sheep handling, effective communication and ways to support contractors facing low sheep numbers, with practical steps you can take now to get ready for your next shearing and keep good shearers in your region.
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The WA woolgrower’s guide to containment feeding
Containment feeding has become a vital tool for WA woolgrowers to protect soils and maintain or increase stock condition through the increasingly long summer-autumn feed gap. This guide provides practical steps on site selection, nutrition and infrastructure, featuring expert insights from Esperance woolgrower Simon Fowler on how to lift flock performance while reducing costs through containment feeding.
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