00:00There's certainly a demand for wool classes to be trained in Queensland, and the only other option is for them
00:05to travel into state, which could cost them up to $13,000 to do a course and time away from
00:11work, so it's a big commitment.
00:12We love the wool, but during shearing we're flat out doing the background work, we don't actually get a chance
00:16to get into the shed and look at the emptiness of the wool and actually work out what we can
00:21do to increase the wool on our flock out the other side.
00:25So, yeah, just a way to get a better understanding of our wool and what we're producing out the other
00:31side and how we can increase that to make it better.
00:33I couldn't really get a job at the start because at the time Kiwis were all over you and they're
00:38like, you know, they're pretty experienced and I was green as, knew nothing, and I just kept going out, working
00:46for nothing, jumping in with friends.
00:48I want to learn, throwing dooners, practicing at home, finally got my spot and then just got stuck into it,
00:57and now that's kind of developed into crutching, been crutching on a Perkins trailer for the last, say, three years,
01:06sort of learning how to shear the last year.
01:10EPACs have been introduced, you know, from 10 to 15 years ago, so because EPACs have been introduced, it's more
01:18so about traceability of those EPACs and making sure that our specifications, our wool classes specifications are done online, so
01:26there's more emphasis on that rather than a paper-based specification, so these guys will be learning a lot more
01:32in terms of online, in the online recording space, I suppose.
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