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July 15, 2020How Instagram influencers are working to improve wool’s brand
NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER – by Joely Mitchell – “Australian Wool Innovation has been using overseas Instagram influencers as a marketing tactic to promote the brand of Australian wool.”
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When wool prices drop, it’s time to step it up within your operation
FARM WEEKLY – by Kristen Frost – “Geoff Peters of Ballatherie Merinos, Hillston, NSW, who runs about 10,000 grown sheep over three properties, said more often than not, the drop in wool prices “tests out” producers that may not be getting the full potential out of their flocks.”
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July 14, 2020Sweet signs but wool’s rocky road set to continue
STOCK & LAND – by Chris Wilcox NCWSB – “After a relentless decline in wool prices, it was encouraging to see the market improve a little in the last two weeks of auctions before the traditional July recess.”
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Time is of the essence for NSW sheep producers as mulesing ban for NSW put to upper house inquiry
NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER – by Kristen Frost – “Mulesing could be banned in NSW if sheep producers don’t have their say on legislative amendments prohibiting the practice by January 1, 2023.”
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Agriculture exports behind China reliance
NARROMINE NEWS – by Matt Coughlan – “The thirst for premium Australian agricultural produce among China’s middle class has driven exporters to concentrate on that market.”
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July 13, 2020NSW farmers urged to speak up on sheep mulesing ban bill
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “NEW South Wales sheep producers have been urged to have their say in an Upper House inquiry on whether to mandate pain relief for mulesing and/or ban the flystrike prevention practice in the state.”
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Bank says Australian export ag sailing through global COVID-19 storm
FARM WEEKLY – by Vernon Graham – “Australian farm exports have so far sailed relatively smoothly through the global coronavirus storm but new waves of infection pose dangers to world economic recovery.”
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Wool report: sector on ‘cusp of a renaissance’
RURAL LIFE NZ – by Sally Rae – “A wool working group has finally released its long-awaited report, saying it believes natural fibres are “on the cusp of a renaissance” and a new approach is needed.”
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Wool enters winter recess on a firm note
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Bruce McLeish, Elders Queensland wool manager – “AUSTRALIA and South Africa both enter the winter auction recess with the wool market on a firm note, providing a glimmer of hope that when auctions resume in August things may be a little better.”
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July 11, 2020Promoting Australian wool in the US using the Amazon strategy
NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER – by Kristen Frost – “Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) are attempting to conquer the current marketing barrier caused by the COVID 19 pandemic by tapping into one of the world’s largest online shopping platforms, Amazon.”
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July 10, 2020Victorian mulesing contractors advised to give and bill pain relief
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “VICTORIAN mulesing contractors have been advised to carry the pain relief product Tri-Solfen for use if producers don’t supply it.”
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Forward wool market factors in auction movements
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner – “THE spot wool auction market closed Wednesday ahead of the three-week winter recess with all microns posting gains. The magnitude of the increases varied widely as selection and the need to catch vessels saw irregularities in the indices, with 19 and 21 micron values dropping 95 cents throughout June.”
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Wool prices make last minute dash before three-week recess
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIAN wool prices improved this week, consistent with a slight improvement in business in recent weeks and buyers taking their last auction-buying opportunity to meet shipping deadlines before a three-week recess.”
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This week’s wool market review & update
AUSTRALIAN WOOL INNOVATION – Week 02 – July 2020
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Govt releases plan to revitalise wool sector – NZ
MIRAGE NEWS – “A plan to revitalise New Zealand’s strong wool sector and set it on a new, more sustainable and profitable path was unveiled today by Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor.”
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Green light for WA Sheep Expo & Ram Sale
FARM WEEKLY – “COVID-19 has certainly been extremely challenging to Australian agricultural shows, with most having to be cancelled in 2020.”
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July 9, 2020Wool market rises for second week as annual recess spurs buyers on.
FARM WEEKLY – by Kristen Frost – “Some solid demand was evident in the Australian wool market as buyers attempted to fill orders before opportunity becomes limited due to the annual mid-year three-week recess.”
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Shearing trainers gaining skills to pass on knowledge to next generation
STOCK & LAND – “The Victorian government is rolling out shearer training, promised in the run up to the last state election.”
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July 8, 2020WPA to investigate wool’s traceability systems
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – “Peak wool representative body WoolProducers Australia has been announced as one of 16 recipients of a Traceability Grant from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment”.
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Wool grower levy suspension being called for
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Joely Mitchell – “The federal government is being called on to suspend the need for wool growers to pay their levies and instead pay the shortfall for them.”
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Positive season trumps virus uncertainty
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Gregor Heard – “VICTORIA may be gripped in an ominous second wave of COVID-19 that has Garden State residents fearful of another bout of lockdowns and the rest of the nation watching anxiously, but most ag sectors are still tracking well according to a Rural Bank report issued this week.”
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Australian wool traceability ‘disconnect’ to be examined
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “DOMESTIC and global traceability systems for Australian wool and sheep will be reviewed with the help of Federal Government funding. Peak grower body WoolProducers Australia has won funding for a review and supply chain mapping of traceability systems across the Australian wool and sheep industry supply chains.”
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July 7, 2020Take time out to optimise the value of new season woolclips
STOCK & LAND – by Alister Carr, KareeWool – “Australia’s eastern states are enjoying one of the most optimistic wool growing seasons in generations this year.”
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Labour costs must improve to open up Australian wool market
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Joely Mitchell – “Improving Australia’s wool market access is going to be a slow burn but the challenges currently facing the industry may see wool growers transition out of it before things get better.”
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Wool industry facing shearer shortage with coronavirus limiting training
ABC NEWS – by Damian McIntyre – “For the past 30 years, a shearing and wool-handling school for beginners has been held at a historic north-east Tasmanian property.”
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July 6, 2020Mulesing contractors query liability under new regulations
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “CONTRACTORS mulesing sheep in Victoria without pain relief will be potentially liable to prosecution under new state regulations, according to Agriculture Victoria.”
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WoolProducers persists in levy waive call despite legal hurdle
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “WOOLPRODUCERS Australia is persisting in its call for the Federal Government to consider subsidising the temporary waiving of wool and sheep levies despite a lack of enabling legislation.”
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AWN trades Merino & Co and MerinoSnug brand for expansion
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “AUSTRALIA’S largest wool broker AWN has sold its Merino & Co and MerinoSnug brand and operation in a joint venture deal with Western Australian-based company AClink.”
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Wool Week face-to-face events cancelled in Melbourne
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIA’S Wool Week events in Victoria’s capital Melbourne have been cancelled as COVID-19 disruptions continued in the state.”
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Angus Kebbell tackles sheep farming’s biggest challenge – what to do with the wool (NZ)
INTEREST.CO.NZ – by Angus Kebbell – “Merino is finding success, but the other 95% of strong wools needs its own path, one that will need to re-built from the ground up”
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July 5, 2020Wool steady, positive with good clearance rates
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Bruce McLeish, Elders Queensland wool manager – “A FEELING of relief followed the conclusion of wool sales in Australia last week as well as in South Africa.”
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Get knotted with natural and organic fibres
FARM WEEKLY – by Tamara Hooper – “KNITTING as a craft may have once been considered ‘old school’ but in recent years it has seen a resurgence among all ages and even genders, with social media sites dedicated to showcasing people’s creations and bringing together knitting enthusiasts.”
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July 4, 2020Vic stud pride themselves on growing a ‘gutsy’ wool
FARM WEEKLY – by Kristen Frost – “Norm and Kerri Weir of Kerrilyn Merino and Poll Merino stud, located at Dunluce in central Victoria, know a thing or two about breeding quality Merino sheep.”
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Humorous Indian campaign promotes Australian wool
FARM WEEKLY – “Prominent Indian comedian Vir Das has used his humour to spruik the benefits of Australian wool.”
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Wool suitable for military and firefighter clothing
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – “A new scientific study into the fire resistance of various fabrics used as base-layer garments for military and firefighters has found that wool and wool-rich fabrics perform the best.”
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July 3, 2020Positive start for wool as buyers return to market
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Kristen Frost – “After a demoralising five-year season low, the Australian wool market started the new financial year on a more positive note with a sprinkling of buyers making a welcome return to the market place.”
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Falling wool prices leave growers deciding whether to sell or keep the clip
THE RURAL – by Nikki Reynolds – “IT’S no secret that our wool growers are at the top of their game in terms of producing a quality product in an efficient way.”
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Three years of wild dog management in the Upper Hunter results in the removal of 300 dogs
THE SINGLETON ARGUS NEWS – “Wild dogs are a major economic and emotional cost to Upper Hunter farmers especially for sheep producers.”
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New season wool prices start on a positive note
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIAN wool prices started on a positive note in the first auctions of the 2020/21 season this week. After positive signs late last week, AWEX senior market analyst Lionel Plunkett said in welcome news to all industry participants, the market started the new season on a positive note.”
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Composite and terminal sires in demand as wool prices flounder
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Fiona Myers – “COMPOSITE and terminal sires could be in hot demand this spring as Merino producers consider turning their backs on fibre production.”
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Two directors being sought for SPA board
SHEEP CENTRAL – “NOMINATIONS have opened for two Sheep Producers Australia board positions, to be decided at this year’s annual general meeting in November.”
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July 2, 2020VIC sheep producers now required to use pain relief when mulesing
SHEEP CENTRAL – “VICTORIAN producers are now required to administer a registered pain-relieving product when mulesing sheep. The new provisions, which came into effect yesterday, have been introduced as part of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (POCTA) Regulations 2019.”
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July 1, 2020LATEST WOOL TRADING NEWS – JUNE 2020
WOOLNEWS.NET – “Australian Wool Season finishes low …. “
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Asian wool ‘disastrous’ but bounce back on the cards
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Joely Mitchell – “While the current wool situation in Asian countries was “bordering on disastrous”, there was optimism of a bounce back next year, according to Australian Wool Innovation eastern hemisphere general manager John Roberts.”
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Farm wool stockpile trend prompts insurance alert to producers
FARM WEEKLY – by Andrew Marshall – “Australia’s growing stockpile of unsold wool is tipped to represent almost a third of the national clip by year’s end as more producers continue to put off selling into a sluggish auction market.”
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June 30, 2020A new generation at Thalabah Merinos are keen to take the stud into the future
FARM WEEKLY – “As the frost disintegrates and the fog lifts on a property in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, the silhouette of a man tainted with age can be seen in a paddock full of Merino rams.”
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Coronavirus: Northern Ireland wool market ‘in turmoil’
BBC NEWS – by Conor Macauley, BBC NI Agriculture & Environment Correspondent – “At the Ulster Wool depot in Antrim, there’s a steady stream of sheep farmers turning up to offload bags of fleeces. At peak, which is about now, this large warehouse can take in 30 tonnes of wool a day.”
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National Wool Declaration needs to indicate cryogenic alternative to mulesing, broker says
ABC RURAL – by national rural reporter Kath Sullivan – “One of Australia’s largest brokers and exporters of wool says the industry is “shooting itself in the foot” by not allowing farmers that use cryogenic breech freezing to report it on the National Wool Declaration (NWD).”
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One-in-three wool farmers financially worse-off in pandemic
2GB 873AM – RURAL NEWS – “A survey has revealed the impact of the coronavirus economic slowdown so far on the wool industry, with one in three farms reporting a loss in income.”
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PETA’s anti-wool campaign ‘won’t be taken seriously’
STOCK & LAND – by Joely Mitchell – “ETA has launched a campaign targeting the wool industry but there’s not a lot of concern among the agriculture industry that their message will be taken on board by everyday consumers.”
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June 29, 2020Australian wool farmers call for a revival in domestic manufacturing after coronavirus exposes reliance on China
DAILY MAIL (UK) – by Kylie Stevens for Daily Mail Australia – “Australian wool farmers are leading a push for a revival in local manufacturing to reduce its heavy reliance on China for production.”
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WoolProducers seeks temporary halt to wool and sheep levies
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “PEAK grower body WoolProducers Australia wants wool and sheep transaction levy collection halted for 12 months from August this year to help producers recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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On-the-spot fines not on with new mulesing pain relief rules
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “VICTORIAN sheep producers will not be issued with ‘on-the-spot’ fines under new regulations that mandate pain relief for mulesing from Wednesday this week.”
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New National Wild Dog Action Plan provides blueprint for best practice management
SHEEP CENTRAL – “The National Wild Dog Action Plan has so far returned a cost-benefit ratio of between 6:1 and 16.5:1 for each dollar invested, stakeholders were told during the launch of the latest 2020-30 updated action plan today.”
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Mulesing ban bill put to Upper House inquiry
WESTERN MAGAZINE – by Lucy Kinbacher – “Woolgrowers have until July 31 to have their say on a NSW legislative amendments that could prohibit mulesing by 2023 and make pain relief compulsory for other procedures.”
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Merino field day cancelled
THE RURAL – by Stephen Burns – “Exhibitors preparing their Merino sheep for display at the annual South West Slopes Stud Merino field day held in Harden have been notified by the committee the event has been cancelled due to COVID-19 social restrictions currently in place.”
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Australia’s new wild dog action plan launched
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – “AUSTRALIA’s new National Wild Dog Action Plan has been released, providing a blueprint for the humane, best practice management of wild dogs.”
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Wool poised to play a role in a sustainable, post-pandemic fashion future
ABC – AM with Sabra Lane, Linda Mottram – by Bridget Fitzgerald – “Wool growers in Australia have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic as a drop in clothing sales worldwide sees orders cancelled and buyers halt trade.”
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June 28, 2020Wool market ends financial year on buoyant tone
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Bruce McLeish, Elders Queensland wool manager – “THE Australian wool market wrapped up the financial year last week, but not quite the selling season with two more sales to go before the annual three week recess.”
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A look at the family-owned businesses buying most of Australia’s wool
STOCK & LAND – by Bryce Eishold – “Australia’s largest wool buyers are a group of family-owned enterprises, resilient enough to bear the brunt of the COVID-19 pinch and passionate to see their businesses strive – and survive – post-pandemic.”
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Australian farmers push for local wool processing and manufacturing after coronavirus reveals reliance on China
ABC – LANDLINE – by Lucy Barbour, national regional affairs reporter – “The nation’s farm lobby has called for governments to revive domestic manufacturing and processing amid concerns the agriculture industry relies too heavily on countries like China.”
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Wool producers chasing fat lamb profits as fibre loses a third of its value this financial year
ABC NEWS – NSW country Hour – by Mike Pritchard, Josh Becker and David Claughton – “As the financial year comes to an end and the dust settles on the collapse of the wool market, farmers are looking at the meat side of the industry for profit.”
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Pride of the wool industry
STOCK & LAND – by Stephen Burns – “During the 1989 Melbourne Sheep Show and Sale, a young ram bred by the late Bruce Merriman, Merryville, Yass, caught sheep classer John Williams’ attention and he quickly organised a syndicate to make a bid on the two-tooth ram.”
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June 27, 2020AuctionsPlus Wool comment
SHEEP CENTRAL – “This week saw the EMI slump to its lowest price since 2015, finishing the week at 1110c, 29c down on last week.”
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New season Merino and crossbred lambs push AuctionsPlus offering to 74,000 head
SHEEP CENTRAL – “SHEEP numbers continued their uphill trajectory on AuctionsPlus this week, with throughput increasing by 1985 head to total 74,011 head. Merino wether lambs and crossbred lambs reported large increases in listings, as new season lambs are starting to hit the market.”
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June 26, 2020Bill Tatt: Wool market suffers from Chinese blacklisting abattoirs
WESTERN MAGAZINE – by Bill Tatt – “Week ending 26/06/2020 Widespread useful rain has followed over recent days as we move past the shortest day and into winter…”
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Online wool trade platform here to stay
2GB 873AM – “The online wool trading platform Wool Q is being described as agile, and the functionality as good – six weeks after it was formally launched.”
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Wool prices fall further, with slight recovery in later sales
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIAN wool growers met the market as wool prices fell further this week, with a slight improvement in rates before the close of the last sales for the 2019/20 season.”
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Growers call for WoolPoll independence and MLA alignment
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “INDUSTRY groups and sheep producers have called for the WoolPoll ballot process to be more independent of Australian Wool Innovation and aligned with the five-yearly Meat & Livestock Australia strategic planning cycle.”
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June 25, 2020Season finishes on a low note as market continues to deteriorate
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Kristen Frost – “The Australian wool market is facing a long road to recovery after the 2019/2020 selling season finished on a low note with the only positive trend being in the number of bales passed in.”
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Hope for growers in tough times
STOCK & LAND – by Bryce Eishold – “Woolgrowers in Victoria’s east are gearing up for the annual Gippsland ram sale despite one of their most trying years on record.”
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June 24, 2020New Zealand Merino Shears cancelled
NZ HERALD – THE COUNTRY – “Traditional shearing competitions season-opener, the New Zealand Merino Shears has been cancelled this year, as organisers work to mark its 60th anniversary post-Covid in style in 2021.”
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Confident Pattersons take out May title
FARM WEEKLY – “A REALISATION that they had to simplify and increase their sheep production – in response to low viability in the wool, lamb and mutton markets back in the late 1990s – has led to a quiet confidence in the future for Woodanilling farmers Brad, Sylvia, Lach and Hannah Patterson and family of Bullock Hills Pastoral.”
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Who’s next on China’s trade hit list?
FINANCIAL REVIEW – by John Kehoe, Senior writer – “Strained political relations between China and Australia have local exporters nervously looking over their shoulders wondering if they will be the next victim of Beijing’s economic coercion.”
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Fox & Lillie joins opposition to AWEX stance on sheep freeze branding
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “THE Australian Wool Exchange’s inclusion of sheep freeze branding within its non-mulesed category on the National Wool Declaration is unlikely to be reviewed until next year, despite exporter Fox & Lillie joining calls for a re-think.”
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Future of falling WA sheep flock hinges on a good season
SHEEP CENTRAL – “WESTERN Australia’s falling sheep flock has been drained by record meat exports in 2019 and more sales of ewes and lambs to eastern states restockers this year, including via increased online sales.”
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EMI tumbles to 1110¢ during the last sale of the season
COUNTRYMAN – by Bob Garnant – “The last wool sale of the 2019-20 season brought little joy to woolgrowers, with the Eastern Market Indicator falling 29¢ to close 1110¢/kg clean”
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June 23, 2020Pressure mounts as farmers slam decision to disband wild dog group
STOCK & LAND – by Bryce Eishold – “Landowners are demanding Victorian Agriculture Minister Jaclyn Symes detail what steps the government will take to prevent the spread of wild dogs after last week disbanding a committee set up to advise bureaucrats about the invasive pests.”
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Wool brokers 100th birthday – but it’s handing out the presents
STOCK & LAND – by Andrew Miller – “Australia’s peak wool brokers body has marked its 100th birthday by giving its own presents to a leading industry charity.”
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WoolProducers welcomes launch of Australia-UK free trade agreement negotiations
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – “Peak wool representative body, WoolProducers Australia (WPA), has welcomed the announcement from Trade Minister Simon Birmingham last week that the formal negotiations on the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement (A-UK FTA) have commenced. “
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June 22, 2020Welcome return to relative normality at WWC
FARM WEEKLY – by Mal Gill – “TRADING at the Western Wool Centre (WWC) will return to relative post-COVID-19 normal next week with brokers and buyers moving back into the sale room for the last live auction week of the 2019-20 wool season.”
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Attracting a higher premium for higher yields
STOCK & LAND – by Kristen Frost – “Southern NSW wool producer Chris Croker said he will be meeting the market when his wool clip is offered next week despite the EMI dropping to its lowest level in five years.”
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Wool bodies say no consultation on five-year flystrike strategy
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Terry Sim – “AUSTRALIA’S main wool grower bodies claim the industry’s levy-funded body has released a five-year strategy for flystrike research, development, education, extension and development without consulting them on the strategy’s detail.”
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Full wool scanned in-lamb Merino ewes to $353 on AuctionsPlus
SHEEP CENTRAL – “RESTOCKERS paid to $353 for young Merino ewes and to $395 for ewe-lamb units on AuctionsPlus last week as values held steady for most other online offerings.”
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Ag university degree fees cut by 62pc
SHEEP CENTRAL – by Neil Lyon – “THE Federal Government’s announcement that the cost of a university agriculture degree is to be slashed by 62 percent has been welcomed by the agricultural and ag education sectors.”
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AuctionsPlus online wool demand follows physical auction slump
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUCTIONSPLUS reported parallel drops in online wool demand last week as the physical auction market’s benchmark AWEX Eastern Market Indicator dropped to its lowest point since 2015.”
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WoolProducers seeks no tariff barriers for wool in new UK deal
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUSTRALIA’S peak wool grower body is hoping the favourable tariff and quota conditions for wool can continue as formal negotiations on the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement commence.”
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Limited, poor quality demand hits wool market
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Bruce McLeish, Elders Queensland wool manager – “EVEN with only a miniscule 15,800 bales being offered last week the Australian wool market was a luck-lustre affair.”
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June 18, 2020Small offering doesn’t ease price plummet
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Kristen Frost – “Australia’s wool market has fallen to a five year low despite another limited quantity this week with just 15,800 bales on offer.”
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Victoria experiences coldest week as temp plummets
STOCK & LAND – by Bryce Eishold – “Victoria experienced some of its coldest nights last week as the mercury dipped well below 0°C.”
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This week’s wool market review & update
AUSTRALIAN WOOL INNOVATION – Week 51 – June 2020
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June 17, 2020Victorian farmers protest wild dog advisory group’s demise
SHEEP CENTRAL – “VICTORIAN farmers are concerned they might not be consulted on wild dog control issues, and especially aerial baiting, with the dissolution of a ministerial advisory committee.”
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WA increases sheep and goat levy to fight footrot and wild dogs
SHEEP CENTRAL – “WESTERN Australian sheep and goat producers will contribute 17 cents from the sale of every animal to help fund programs to control virulent footrot and wild dogs in the state.”
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June 16, 2020Ekka wool competition to be staged in conjunction with mini state sheep show
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Sally Gall – “The Queensland Merino Stud Sheepbreeders Association is planning to stage a mini version of its annual state sheep show at Mitchell in July, in conjunction with judging for the 2020 Royal Queensland Show wool competition.”
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June 15, 2020Tight supplies create rays of light through market gloom
FARM WEEKLY – by Bruce McLeish – “A bit like a moisture-deprived barley crop sown a few weeks ago, the green shoots of recovery in the wool market turned a bit yellow and wilted slightly last week.”
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AuctionsPlus online wool auction clearance rate holds
SHEEP CENTRAL – “AUCTIONSPLUS’ online wool sale clearance rate last week appeared unaffected by the drop in physical auction prices.”
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Wool testing and auction data confirm the havoc caused by coronavirus
STOCK & LAND – by Chris Wilcox, National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia – “The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on both supply and demand in the global wool industry have become very clear in the past two months.”
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Sheep Producers Australia appoints new chief executive officer
SHEEP CENTRAL – “NEW Sheep Producers Australia chief executive officer Stephen Crisp has urged continued co-operation with the wool sector for the benefit of animal welfare and biosecurity.”
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Tough road ahead for wool: report (NZ)
RURAL LIFE – by Sally Rae – “The costs incurred in shearing crossbred sheep are starting to seriously impede the profitability of sheep farming, ANZ’s latest Agri Focus report says.”
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June 14, 2020Australian wool market still hanging on
QUEENSLAND COUNTRY LIFE – by Bruce McLeish, Elders northern wool manager – “A BIT like a moisture deprived barley crop sown a few weeks ago, the green shoots of recovery in the wool market turned a bit yellow and wilted slightly last week.”
