Traceability was under the spotlight at the Karoo Winter Wool Festival, where leaders from the wool, ostrich and red meat ...

In a move set to boost South Africa’s wool industry, the University of the Free State (UFS) and the National Wool Growers Association of South Africa (NWGA) signed a collaboration agreement on ...

About 30,000 farmers in Lesotho, which is entirely surrounded by South Africa, rely on wool and mohair exports. ... For decades, farmers sold wool from sheep and mohair from goats through BKB, ...

AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation’s chief executive officer has declined to outline how the company will help growers take advantage ...

There are an estimated 33 million smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa, which is 80% of all farms in the region, and in some countries, they contribute up to 90% of food production.

His efforts have inspired other U.S. ranchers to pelletize their waste wool, and he landed his $13.98 eight-ounce bags of Wild Valley Farms Wool Pellets on Amazon in 2016 and on Lowes.com in 2023.

Farmers in Africa are blaming chemical fertilizers for increasingly acidic soils that have led to production decline. Evelyne Musambi. Wednesday 24 July 2024 06:41 BST.

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’s Kenya manager, John Macharia, said Kenya’s recent fertilizer scandal should not discourage farmers. “It’s still imperative that we are able to work with ...