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Improving wool traceability and marketing

THE NEW ONLINE platform WoolQ promises to improve wool traceability from the shed to the ship and beyond.

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 Anna and Jack Cotton run superfine Merinos at the family farm at Swansea, Tasmania. Anna says WoolQ will improve wool traceability and transparency. Photo: WoolQ/AWI

Anna and Jack Cotton run superfine Merinos at the family farm at Swansea, Tasmania. Anna says WoolQ will improve wool traceability and transparency. Photo: WoolQ/AWI

WoolQ Project Chair Will Wilson describes the new online platform WoolQ™ as an evolution of the current wool marketing system, not a revolution. "The majority of Australian wool will be still be sold...

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