At the request of the Commonwealth Government, the wool industry is developing a National Wool Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Strategy.

The National Wool RD&E Strategy will define the priority objectives for the wool industry in the long-term (next 20 years) and the technologies, products, tools and delivery methods required or desired to achieve those objectives.

The aims of the Strategy are the efficient use of funds and other resources, and improved industry uptake of innovation, based on a national collaborative approach to all agricultural research, development and extension.

Responsibility for delivery of the National Wool RD&E Strategy has been delegated to the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA). AWI is responsible for facilitating the industry consultation on the strategy and is partnering with state primary industry agencies, the CSIRO and the university sector to develop the Strategy document.

Industry consultation with woolgrowers and post-farm organisations has completed. Implementation of the Strategy will take place from 2011 onwards.

A copy of the National Wool RD&E Strategy is available (PDF 883Kb).

Further information about the National Wool RD&E Strategy is available in a (PDF 43.4Kb).

 (PDF 58Kb) of the Hamilton 4th August workshop is available.

(PDF 41Kb) of the Merredin 10th August workshop is available.

(PDF 58Kb) of the Katanning 11th August workshop is available.

(PDF 29Kb) of the Longford 24th August workshop is available

(PDF 24Kb) of the Young 7th September workshop is available

(PDF 34b) of the Armidale 9th September workshop is available

(PDF 68Kb) of the SA survey of May 2011 is available

(PDF 96Kb) of the QLD survey of June 2011 is available

A compilation of all workshops is available

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(PDF 63Kb) of the Wagin workshop outcomes combined with the AWI Grower Forum of December 2009 is also available.

Read the latest update on Wool RD&E Strategy as at December 2011 here.

For further information, please email nationalstrategy@wool.com.