"Equally vital to building demand is improving on-farm productivity and fixing issues such as shearing and mulesing," Mr McLachlan said.
"In particular, we are committed to finding better shearing platforms that improve OH&S and efficiency, and importantly we are exploring all avenues in finding an alternative to mulesing.
"Exciting new genetics developments include two major investments with Meat and Livestock Australia - the Sheep Genetics Australia database that will create a national language for more accurate delivery of current genetic information, and the SheepGenomics program involving 10 leading research organisations that has the potential to deliver the next big gains for sheep producers in areas such as productivity, parasite control and wool quality.
"We simply cannot afford to ignore the gains to be made by investing in genetic improvement technologies and similarly we simply must find a solution to mulesing, we have to fix shearing and we must find better ways of dealing with problems such as worms, lice and flies."
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