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Wild Dog On Ground III WA logo
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Wild Dog On Ground III WA

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project will provide funding on-ground control of wild dogs to assist woolgrowers and landholders in Recognised Biosecurity Groups in best practice management throughout WA. This project also provided funding to DPIRD to fund the purchase of the Exclusion Fencing Construction Unit for the development of the Esperance Extension. The...

20 Aug 2018 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Digibale Ltd

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Tasmania Wool Smart Farm

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

While advanced management technologies (AMTs) such as AWI SMART Tags offer great promise, their value for enhanced sustainability and profitability needs to be demonstrated. This investment seeks to demonstrate the practical use of AMTs in Tasmania for improved pasture utilisation, sustainability, animal performance and related animal behaviour.

13 Oct 2019 - 30 Dec 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Digibale Ltd

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Improving Control of Predators:
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Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

The key objectives of this project were to facilitate the cleaning, collation and primary analysis of data collected by the research team and in an IACRC project (known as the 4Ps: Predators, Prey, Plants and People). The data has been used to investigate the effects of wild dog control on...

19 Aug 2018 - 31 Jul 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Ogilvy Health

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FeralScan

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project will support the integration of PestSmart and the proven community-centred FeralScan pest surveillance, detection, mapping, and response technologies (with mobile Apps), to become the centre-piece for community engagement for the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions (CISS). This will be enhanced by supporting the adoption of innovative community networking...

5 Nov 2018 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

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Semi-Autonomous Scoping Study

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Automated shearing technology has been of widespread interest to wool growers since the 1990s when technological feasibility was first demonstrated. Despite its potential, autonomous or semi-autonomous shearing has not been translated into a commercially viable product. This investment will utilise experimental analysis and industry consultation to develop a principled understanding...

3 Apr 2018 - 1 Mar 2019

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

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Measurement of Follicle density and diameter

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Current measures of wool follicle density are expensive and time consuming as they require a biopsy sample of the animal’s skin, chemical processing and microscopic analysis. This process is expensive and can take several weeks. This investment explores the potential use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), commonly used in ophthalmology...

1 Dec 2019 - 31 Aug 2020

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

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Virtual Fencing

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

‘Enhancing the profitability and productivity of livestock farming through virtual herding technology’ is a four-year Australian Government-sponsored Rural R&D for Profit project. It is aimed at evaluating the application of virtual herding technology across different production systems and to examine the responses of different livestock (dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep)...

25 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

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Global use phase survey for apparel CLSD

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This study involved a ‘global’ survey to generate data on the serviceable life of wool apparel and other fibre types during the use phase. The survey was conducted in five key clothing consumer markets: China, USA, UK, Germany and Japan to collect objective data on clothing care regimes as well...

1 Oct 2018 - 15 Mar 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Integrity Ag Services Pty Ltd

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Biodegradation of textiles in marine & terrestrial environments.

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project assessed the marine and terrestrial biodegradation of major apparel fibre types, including shrink resist treated and untreated wool apparel fabrics. The study addressed an important knowledge gap about the biodegradability of wool finishing processes, enabling AWI to respond with scientifically defensible evidence to challenges that wool clothing contributes...

8 Oct 2018 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Integrity Ag Services Pty Ltd

Communicating Wool's Circularity CLSD logo
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Communicating Wool's Circularity CLSD

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Contributing to AWI's strategy of creating a level playing field between wool and fossil fuel fibre types, this study explored wool's circularity and history of reuse and recycling. These attributes are acknowledged as key to addressing the problem of fast fashion but are largely overlooked by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)...

1 Jan 2019 - 30 Apr 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Integrity Ag and Environment Pty Ltd