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Merino Fleece in the northern region opened slightly cheaper for the average and good style fleece lines, however the selection of best style and strength FNF lots continued to trade in seller’s favour. Fleece lines containing 2-4% of VM remained firm on Tuesday. Wednesday’s stylish selection of 19µ and coarser fleece lot attracted more competition […]
Australian woolgrowers have voted to keep a levy of 1.5 per cent on wool sales to fund research, development and marketing of the natural fibre.
Shearers will continue to work for poverty wages in unsafe shearing sheds across the country until the Commonwealth Government imposes a licensing regime on all labour hire companies operating in regional Australia the union which represents shearers, the Australian Workers’ Union, said.
Merino fleece opened firm, on the back of reasonable quantities of 18.5 and coarser wool business being forward with competition continuing to firm across all merino fleece types as the week eventually closed. Merino Skirtings initially opened fully firm on last week’s levels however the best specified and prepared skirtings continued to increase in price […]
The NSW Sheep and Goat eID Tag Discount Program provides a discount of $0.76 each (incl GST) for 2025 NLIS-accredited white eID devices when purchased from a retailer or manufacturer before 31 October 2025.
The Albanese Labor Government is providing a further $32.7 million to the transition support package for the phase out of live sheep exports by sea.
Crossbred fleece experienced continued support for the 28-32 µ rose 5-10c as the reports of these types being “oversold” in a lower supply period continuing. If history repeats itself the quantity of these types will increase over November and December, and it is felt the price will invert accordingly. Merino Fleece continued to be the hardest […]
Merino Fleece was the worst hit category with price reductions in the northern MPG’s falling between 15-38c in the Northern Region. The exception was the 20MPG which rose by 4c for the week. Whilst the other selling centres measured changes of 4-19c the MPGs were adjusting from the northern MPG disparity accrued over the past […]
An online bidding war between studs from Victoria, NSW and Western Australia resulted in a new record top price of $10,600 for a White Suffolk ram at the Pepperton Farms Poll Dorset and White Suffolk stud sale.
Merino Fleece was largely unchanged in respect there were more than 10,000 bales offered more than the previous week with the larger offering placing pressure on the Super Fine MPG’s which lost between 10-30c. Conversely The 18.5µ to 19.5µ MPG’s closed relatively firm or in some cases slightly dearer and the 20-22 MPG’s were all 2-5c […]
Thirty years of stud breeding along high performance lines will go under the hammer with the stage one dispersal of autumn lambing ewes from the central Victorian Pepperton flock on October 16.
Merino Fleece opened the week with mixed results as the trade felt their way early in the sale series. Selected well specified and classed lots attracted good competition with the prices slightly better than last week. Wednesday saw all the early catalogues open 20-30c dearer with the end result tapering off to 10-25c dearer for […]
