Aurtralia-Problems in wool industry.

AUSTRALIA.

ROGER FLETCHER.

Roger Fletcher, the worlds largest processor of lamb and mutton, is angry with the Australian Wool Innovation board.

Roger who is the founder and CEO of Fletcher International, slaughters 180,000 sheep per week and was also the largest wool exporter in Australia.

Joining the Wool Board last year, Roger noticed a waste of farmers money in excessive salaries to board members, and a total lack of responsibility and accountability by the body.

Fletcher said, "woolgrowers must vote for a new and independent start and should look for practical people not professional boards sitters".

Roger Fletcher who started as a sheep drover in western New South Wales, built his meat and wool empire from nothing, other than hard work and common sense, he is without doubt the most respected man in the worlds sheep industry.

Fletcher was the ideal candidate for chairman on the Wool Innovation board, according the majority of farmers in Australia, however there are those that don’t like to be told the facts as they are.

Talking about the trade in general, Roger said, "the Chinese are main buyers of wool are not opening letters of credit, the wool market is taking a slide. We need people with their feet on the ground and understand the industry, not lynch jobs and spending sprees".

In Fletcher’s opinion, the current boards is dysfunctional, he said "when I came on to the board. I found there were two boards, there’s an upper board and a lower board, the upper board don’t tell the lower board what is going on".

Roger loves to tell the yarn about his droving days, when arriving in a town in western NSW late one night there was no feed or water to be had.

Roger drove the sheep on to the local golf course, found plenty of lush grass and water leaving the town before sun up the following morning