The Southern Series

High demand for places in Australian wool classes

The ABC in Australia is reporting strong demand for shearing classes, driven by a labour shortage and increasingly competitive wages. Shearers have been hard to come by over the past couple of years due to travel bans and weather delays making international contractors unavailable, the ABC says. With farmers paying four dollars and more per sheep the classes are attracting a diverse new generation of students. For more go to the ABC News website.