NEW SOUTH WALES – The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has published a revised National Wool Declaration (NWD), which chief executive Mark Grave says, “endeavours to create clarity and provide the market with confidence”.
Key changes relate to definitions surrounding mulesing, which proved divisive in the 2019 NWD because alternative breech modification techniques such as freeze branding could qualify as ‘non-mulesed’.
Grave and his team has now established new categories for such alternatives, which he feels will appease farmers irked by previous iterations of the wool declaration and establish greater transparency for buyers.
