Projects

The 8x5 Wool Profit Program has a series of projects under the umbrella of the Program.  The following page outlines details on each project and how producers can get involved in these projects or reap the rewards of the critical findings that each of these projects will deliver to Tasmanian wool producers

Benchmark your Wool Enterprise
Your confidential results will let you compare all your farm enterprises including wool sheep against other woolgrowing businesses in the state and the top 20% of producers. Contact Warren Hunt on (03 6336 5464) to be involved in the FREE benchmarking of your wool enterprise. Click for more details on being involved in the Benchmarking Project.

Fertiliser Audit Project

A fertilizer Audit will help you identify fertilizer gaps. Click for more details on being involved in the Fertiliser Audit Project.

Assess Specialist Customers
This project will attempt to develop new markets for Tasmanian wool.  Click for more details on being involved, Assess Specialist Customers.

Blowfly Eradication project
This project looked at the feasiability of eradicating the Sheep Blowfly Lucilia cuprina from Tasmania using a mass release of sterile flies technique. This project has been completed.  Click for more details on this Blowfly Eradication project.

Education courses
The project team will work with stakeholders and other educational providers (eg the universities and research providers involved the CRC for Premium Quality Wool including the woolwise material) to develop a range of educational products that add value to grower businesses.  The 1st module has already been developed and delivered to woolgrower groups across Tasmania. For more details on the first module, see details below on the profit driver workshop.

Pasture Solutions
The Pasture Solutions team will provide best practice advice on helping increase the amount of pasture you have to drive production. Click for more details on being involved with the Pasture Solutions team

Fibre Diameter Profile Project
Tasmania produces some of the finest and highest quality wool in the world. Yet many Tasmanian wool clips are affected by lines of low staple strength wool, this significantly reduces the overall value of the wool clip, up to 25%. This project aims to describe the problem of low staple strength in the Tasmanian clip and identify potential solutions that growers can implement. Samples are being gathered from farms across Tasmanian to better understand this problem.

Click for more details on the Wool Fibre Diameter Profile project outline

Land Water Wool Projects

The 8x5 Wool Profit Program is also associated with a series of projects being conducted by Land Water Wool. The following page outlines details on several of these projects. Land Water Wool

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