Farm Weekly
Sheep & Goats
Lamb pays a visit to Western Wool Centre
Mal Gill
Endeavour Wool Exports buyer at the Western Wool Centre, Steve Noa (left), with managing director and one of the company founders, Josh Lamb, who was visiting from Melbourne.
Should wool classification become a broad wool commodity?
Elders Wool
STRONG: The best quality superfine Merino, the very few lots available, were stronger, but those not up to spec drifted lower as Chinese demand in particular eased for the finer end.
Woolgrowers jump to sell before EOFY
Mal Gill
AWN auctioneer Stephen Squizzy Squire said buyers were prepared to pay a premium of between 80 cents and $1 a kilogram for better-styled, high-yielding, low-vegetable matter fleece and more again if it was registered Responsible Wool Standard.
Live exporters seek answers
Brooke Littlewood and Bree Swift
The Livestock Collective has invited new Federal Agricultural Minister Murray Watt to visit live export facilities and see the supply chain first-hand. Photo by The Livestock Collective.
Colorado lambs hit the mark
Mark Phelps
Harpers Feeders in northern Colorado currently has 36,000 lambs on feed, down because of ongoing drought.
Big jump in national farm cash income for grain and livestock
Andrew Marshall
Urgency eases in flock rebuild
Kristen Frost
BACK IN: Analysts said price spreads between mutton and restocker lambs is a good indictor that ewes, or restocking Merino lambs, are going back into the flock.
Daily processing numbers down 30pc
Brooke Littlewood
Lamb prices remain consistent, despite daily processing numbers being down up to 30 per cent
Analysis
European processors driving wool demand
Elders Wool
HIGHER PRICE: For the week the Australian market closed 30c higher overall, with Merino fleece types up by 60c or more.
Labelling laws to disadvantage wool
Kristen Frost
The current PEF system doesn't assess the positive impacts on the environment therefore wool doesn't get any positive scoring.

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