Stakeholder Benefits
WoolBook offers direct benefits to all groups in the wool industry. The greatest benefit will be for woolgrowers, classers and brokers, by enabling cost savings, attracting higher sale prices and encouraging positive structural change on-farm, increased information exchange, with greater participation and easier communication along the wool pipeline.
- producers get more profitable and sustainable production with better risk management
- contractors are assisted with shearing planning and coordinated harvesting
- classers use customised wool books, value add, better quality control, secure classer report
- brokers have no data entry; get all shearing data and declarations; down-load sales data
- buyers access additional information from brokers and growers to increase confidence
- processors increase confidence from documented quality assurance information
- organisations have membership identified for promotion, support and information links
- service providers have common gateways to production and processing data
- regulators can monitor compliance, communicate new standards, offer links to regulations
- educators can promote national training standards; students can access real industry data
