• PHOTO: Local shearers Bruce ‘Bunsen’ Manson and Lionel Taylor keep their distance in a shearing shed recently. (This is a 2020 news story)
National industry bodies are asking for wool producers, shearing contractors and others involved in the industry to adhere to recommended protocols so that shearing can continue throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
Shearing is currently listed as an essential industry as an Agricultural business and organisations like AWEX, the Shearing Contractors' Association of Australia, Wool Producers Australia and state farm organisations met with federal and state governments . . .
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