MerinoLink Conference24 🟢 Opening Session 🟢 Jess - Chairs address Clare + panel - AgTech: start small Emily - 95% of trainee shearers are still in industry #MLconference24 #MLfieldday24

MerinoLink Conference24 🟢 Session Three 🟢 Post farm wool processing Kelly 🧶wool reimagined! 🧶wool = warmth w'out weight Michael 🧶1 traceability system Norm 🧶Be super professional but personalised with own story #MLconference24 #MLfieldday24

How well does yearling (Y) data predict lifetime (LT) performance? Data from MerinoLink Limited MLP project. Y data to LT, correlation of 0.83 A2 (2yr old) to LT performance, correlation of 0.96

Encouraging correlations for repro trait, data from the MLP project MerinoLink Limited today.

MerinoLink Conference24 🟢 Session Four 🟢 Genetics Peter 🧶#mlpproject: 2M datapoints nearly done Erin 🧶3 impt udder traits - depth, Tsize & Tplace Peta 🧶New indexes today! 🧶Fine wool, Wool Productn, Sustainable Merinos & Merino Lamb #MLconference24 #MLfieldday24

MerinoLink Conference24 🟢 Session Five 🟢 Tech Time Ben 🧶Drones: tool of the air + sensors = data > analysis > decisions! Sigfredo 🧶AI: assess heat stress, up race, approachable set-ups Danielle 🧶Handheld micron device on the sheeps back #MLconference24 #MLfieldday24

MerinoLink Limited on farm Central test display day. Getting a talk on field & feed mapping with drones. This one can travel 1000km😯. Watched a cool video of it traking feral pigs at night with a thermal camera & AI.

MerinoLink Conference24 🟢 Panel Session 🟢 Human Resources Craig - Developing people Bea - Successn. Charlie - Training Communicatn, clarity, flexibility, relationships & defining career pathways (+ xtra leave when you have <4 day bal. in Jan.). #MLconference24 #MLfieldday24

A very timely topic for a lot of growers AWI Extension NSW AWI Extension VIC AWI Extension TAS AWI Extension WA AWI Extension QLD WoolProducers Aust. Sheep Producers Australia

Resource Wednesday: Planning your drenching? Use the Decision Guide 👇 to assist your decision on whether to drench now, whether to use a persistent drench and when to WormTest again. buff.ly/3VYtn87 Australian Wool Innovation @ParaBoss

It has been the driest 5 months of record for many woolgrowing areas and many are now facing new challenges they haven't seen before. Dr Jane Gaussen of The Livestock Vet talks us through some of the challenges through this difficult time. 🎧bit.ly/3zo5MGc #AgTwitter

Great opportunity here with Australian Wool Innovation 🐑!! Australian Wool Innovation

Resource Wednesday: " Choosing the right eID equipment and tags" - AWI Extension SA 10 minute talk with Michelle Cousins, Cousins Merino Services. Watch here: buff.ly/4cRVVqE Australian Wool Innovation livestocksa Ag Innovation & Research Eyre Peninsula @unfsnorth @msfmallee @mackillopgroup

Special opportunity for all interested in #agtech to walk the talk with farmers LambEx Meat & Livestock Australia Australian Wool Innovation Rabobank Australia Nuffield Australia

Why stay in wool sheep? 🐑 “Improving what you know delivers more value than moving to what you don’t” - Director of Agrista, John Francis. Australian Wool Innovation commissioned John to investigate why you should! Be sure to check it out, it sure is a woolly great read! 👏

Update on the 2nd phase of the biological wool harvesting project! 👇 Australian Wool Innovation

#podcast - We hear from Richard Eckhard, Professor of Livestock production at Melbourne University who not only breaks down the carbon debate into common language but has good news in terms of trading and the future with biodiversity. 🎧bit.ly/4g4Mh66 #AgTwitter

🔔🔔The 2024 Ask the AWI Chairman and Board Webinar is coming up. 🔔🔔 🕕 23/9 at 6pm AEST. Register here bit.ly/4dR3oa7

Wear Wool, Not Waste. Our new campaign! bit.ly/47CwPdH #AgTwitter

🎓 Meet #HorizonScholar, Charlie Shadwell! 📍 Dubbo, NSW 📚 Bachelor of Veterinary Biology/Veterinary Science 🏫 @charlessturtuni 🤗 Sponsor: @WoolInnovation What’s on the Horizon? Improving genetics to reap rewards in quality & quantity of meat/fibre 👉 bit.ly/3zwoZWz