FOR Colin Petersen, the wool industry is a true passion. With over thirty years ‘in the game,’ Colin has both experience and expertise. Colin has a quiet and humble demeanour but also an underlying determination and pride. He would dodge the limelight as if it were bullets – so, this...
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New pathways are required for young people to have their own farm
Read MoreAs land prices reach new records young agricultural enthusiasts are having to look at new ways in which they are able to have their own farm. To see what the challenges are that young people in agriculture have to face and what the possible new pathways into agriculture are see...
Future Challenges of Agriculture
Read MoreBendigo Sheep and Wool Show 2018 saw the first New Breed Forum hosted in conjunction with the Young Stud Masters’ Muster. The forum was held to discuss the future of agriculture and the challenges that the young people of today will have to face to be apart of the agricultural...
Fox & Lillie’s Annual Wool Study Tour
Read MoreRecently Fox & Lillie conducted a two week ‘The Heritage of Wool Study Tour’ with a group of twenty six wool growers. The group consisted of wool growers from all over Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The group traveled through the United Kingdom and Italy visiting woollen mills, garment...
The Wool Industry digs deep to support Annie
Read MoreWool Brokers from across Australia donated 69 bales of wool to the Michael Manion Wool Industry Foundation to raise money for Annie Singe. 8 year old Annie from a wool growing family in Wagga has had up to 50 operations in her life so far to remove a Giant Congenital...
Newest Members of the Fox & Lillie Team
Read MoreFox & Lillie’s newest recruits Emma McCrae and Tom Roughead graduated from Longerenong College in 2017 and were both recipients of the Fox & Lillie 2016/2017 Rural Scholarship. Both Emma and Tom have now taken on new roles at Fox & Lillie. See the link below for their views on...
Fox & Lillie Rural’s Scholarship Recipients Graduate
Read MoreFox & Lillie Rural’s 2016/2017 scholarship recipients, Emma McCrae and Tom Roughead graduated from Longerenong College last week with 200 other students. It was the highest number of graduates the College has had in 20 years. Emma excelled in her course and was awarded both the 2016 and 2017 dux...
Longerenong students receive Fox & Lillie Rural scholarships
Read MoreTwo students, Emily McErvale and Hayley Hart from Longerenong College have been awarded the Fox & Lillie Rural 2017/2018 scholarship, which comprised of two student scholarships worth $5,000 each. It is the second consecutive year that Fox & Lillie has offered scholarships at Longerenong College which are aimed at providing...
Emily Shields auctions off family’s 100th shearing wool
Read MoreFox & Lillie Rural’s brokerage coordinator, Emily Shields auctioned off her family’s 100th shearing MINONA wool last week on Wednesday 14th of February. It was a big milestone for the family who all came to watch Emily auction the wool at the Melbourne sale rooms. See the full article here.
Click go shears for charity
Read MoreTHE Melbourne-based managing director of Australia’s second biggest wool export company will dust off his shears for a good cause at the Wentworth Show tomorrow. Jonathan Lillie, from Fox & Lillie, has been challenged by two sheep producers from NSW’s far south west to demonstrate his shearing skills to raise...