Can woolgrowers ride an activewear boom out of the industry’s pandemic bust?

Woolgrower Anthea Sutherland on Pooginook, a merino and poll stud near Coleambally in the Riverina area of south-west NSW. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Drought, fires and, more recently, floods: these are the things wool producers fear.

But that’s just “living on the land”, according to New South Wales merino producer Anthea Sutherland.