This must be AWI and Van Rooyen's fault! Every time the price drops it MUST be AWI's fault. AWGA keep telling us it is, so it must be true. If only AWGA were controlling AWI, the market wouldn't drop like this! Wal and Chick's superpower marketing skills would save the day! (what are those pigs doing with wings?)

Dear Sir George, I assume by your abillity to write a comment as soon as it appears on FarmingOnline that you have a desk job.

Let's hope you are not working for a levy payer funded organisation!

We need some solutions fast to get wool going so get back to work and let's see if you can come up with a constructive solution to the problems facing woolgrowers.

Here is your first challenge. Explain to woolgrowers what you would do if there are no viable alternatives available for mulesing at the end of 2010.

Explain your solution in detail and make sure you assume there are no mulesing alternatives that are practical, cost effecient and most importantally prevent fly strike.

If you can answer this, we can all stop the rot and get on with work. If you can't, then listen to woolgrowers.

Re: tfac's comments. Nice try at deflecting the spotlght away from AWGA's antics.

Never taken levy funds, don't work for levy-funded company, never have, never will.

But your attempted denigration of people working for these companies is noted. I'm sure they must love working in the wool industry when they hear from people like you.

Back to the topic at hand. AWGA tries to blame AWI for all the problems in the industry - from growers making production decisions to the price paid in the market.

As such AWGA stands condemned of economic stupidity. Take a stand tfac! Dont elect people with no international business or marketing experience. Elect the best people - not your mates and neighbours.

Dear Sir George...Just as I thought, you have no sugestions on how to solve the mulesing issues do you? You just want to abuse individuals who are trying to add some common sense to the debate. Your efforts are to deflect the spotlight away from the incompetant handling of this issue by AWI. Well, it's not working. Woolgrowers must vote for a change before it is too late.

tfac The article is about the price of wool. If you want to discuss mulesing, start a blog article, write a letter, whatever and I'll be happy to discuss the matter. The topic isnt about mulesing or even about AWI's performance. It is about AWGA's destructive campaign against the Australian wool industry and its constant denigration of AWI. You want to make a change. Fine. But explain how such a negative and partisan group like AGWA can do any good? Changing to AWGA is simply a vote for asinine mediocrity and letting vested interests get control of woolgrowers money.

HL Mencken said it best: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." AWGA have very clear and simple solutions to complex wool industry problems. And they are wrong.

Wool's problems are not complex at all. The main problem is that that there isn't enough Merino wool for traders to operate profitably in the market. This situation has arisen as a result of the huge cut to production that was forced on us by the Howard government's reckless price cutting from 1998 till 2002. The problem was further exacerbated by drought impacting on an already cash strapped production sector. The rock that wool perished on was the quite bizarre constitution which the Howard government wrote for the WoolStock company. This was never a commercial company. It was a purely political exercise. Anybody who had anything to do with that company should crawl away under a rock and stay there. Three of the current board members of AWI were political appointees on the board of that company. The rest of wool's problems are the result of a very poor understanding in the management of the most fundamental rules of marketing.