Sheep welfare lobby groups supporting retailer moves to ban products made with wool from mulesed Merinos are maintaining pressure on the wool industry to adopt a breeding alternative to any form of mulesing.

The Manjimup saleyards will come to life on Tuesday when a quality line-up of weaners are offered by the Elders Manjimup team.

Next year will be "too late" for State and Federal government assistance to prop up drought-affected pastoralists in WA during their time of need, despite the "fringe" financial measures being made available, according to Hedland Export Depot manager Paul Brown.

Investment in sustainable agriculture looks to be on the rise as WA Super recently launched the WA Impact Fund, which will use impact investing in different spaces, with one being agriculture.

WA woolgrower Andrew Scanlon has done the math and says his Merino gross margin beats that of meat sheep breeds.

Aussie sheep farmers leading the world in animal welfare practices in the face of criticism from animal rights groups.

Queensland's last small stock export processor is hoping western Queensland graziers are fair dinkum about using their exclusion fences to boost sheep numbers when the season recovers.

Malcolm Kater, chairman of Egelabra stud, Warren, says too many sheep handlers at Merino shows look "daggy".