The Heiniger Australia team will have the Woven Optics Wool Scanner on display. Come see the team for a demo and find out how on-farm testing can support your wool business. For more information about the event visit their website.

The Woven Optics team will be demonstrating the Wool Scanner at this event. Bring your sample along for a demonstration and talk to Ben about how on-farm fleece testing can support your wool business. For more information visit their Facebook page.

The Heiniger Australia team will the Woven Optics Wool Scanner on display. Come say hi and see a hands-on demo of this Australian designed on-farm fleece testing technology. For more informatin about the event visit the VSMFD facebook page.

NSW Dohne Prime Lamb Schools Competition

2026 will see the inaugural running of the NSW Dohne Prime Lamb Schools Competition, with the competition concluding over 1 day at Orange NSW – arriving on the 28 July the competition will be run on the 29 July 2026. Twenty-six Schools from NSW will be taking part in this competition, picking up their lambs on the 25 February. They will be responsible for the husbandry of these animals till July, with the lambs then being shorn, measured and slaughtered. 

Gundagai Meat Processors will now do two separate small kills for these lambs. Students will select two wether lambs the week of the 6 to 10 July to be transported to Gundagai Meat Processors on the 13 July for slaughter and carcass data in readiness for competition day. The remainder of the lambs (3) will come to Orange to have all other selective and objective data taken, then these lambs will go back to a selected farm to be held for 3-4 weeks before going to Gundagai Meat Processors for processing. 
We would like to thanks the Currey Family, Walgett NSW once again for supplying the Dohne wether lambs, it is greatly appreciated. It is anticipated that approximately 260 students will be involved in the Orange event. There will be guest speakers, sponsors trade displays and stud displays. We would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their incredible support this year! Please get behind the businesses that are supporting the Dohne Merino breed. They are; Currey Family – Bogewong Butcher Co, Gundagai Meat Processors, Woven Optics & Heiniger Australia, For Flocks Sake Veterinary Sheep Consultants, CB Rural Contracting, Bralca 2.0 Agricultural Consultants, Ben Simmons Scanning, Elders, Shearwell Australia, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Riverina Wool Testers, Daniel Camilleri/Hooked on Hounds, Inland Petroleum, Dawbuts Pty Ltd, Dubbo AGnVET & Darling Irrigation, Monster Signs, Country Trucker Caps,  MLA and AWI.

Anyone looking for more information can contact the NSW Dohne Prime Lamb Schools Competition Subcommittee Chair Daniel Pumpa 0428 665 016 or visit their webite here.

Woven Optics co-founder Vicky Alexandou will be presenting alongside Tim Shepard, Branch Manager Elders Burra: Woven data in action - On farm micron testing driving better decisions. Vist the LambEx website to register for the event.

The Woven Optics team will be set up to run demos of the Wool Scanner, and discuss how on-farm testing can support your wool business by integrating into your workflow. Bring some samples along to test and find out all the ways this technology can provide more in-time data for animal and fleece selection. Follow the link more information on the event.

Woven Optics will be present and demonstrating the Wool Scanner at the 2026 New England Merino Sire Evaluation Field Day. To register for this event visit https://www.trybooking.com/DMRVY.

Come along to the Nutrien Ag Solutions Yass Open day and see Sonya from Heiniger Australia for a Wool Scanner demo. Find out how on-farm testing can support your wool business today.

Come and speak to Vicky from Woven Optics and learn more about how on-farm Alpaca fleece testing can help sort fleece at shearing and reduce double handling of bales.

Come along to the Town & Country Rural Supplies Nutrien Bathurst Open day this week and see Sonya from Heiniger Australia for a demo. Find out how on-farm testing can support your wool business today.

668 Dundas Gap Rd, Melville Forest, VIC

Event details here.

Find us at this Free event @ the Uralla Showgrounds, Uralla, NSW. For more information about the program visit the site here.

Click here for the event flyer.