Drought delivers another hammer blow to Australian wool production

Vernon Graham
Updated August 16 2019 - 11:45am, first published 10:30am
DISAPPEARING BALES: New official forecasts for Australian shorn wool production predict a continued decline in the size of the clip because of drought.
DISAPPEARING BALES: New official forecasts for Australian shorn wool production predict a continued decline in the size of the clip because of drought.

The drought keeps shrinking the size of the Australian wool clip which is now estimated at 285 million kilograms greasy for the 2019-2020 season.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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