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This week about 10,000 bales of Tasmanian wool is up for auction in Melbourne. Morover, the sales happen together with a lot of drought-affected fleece flooding the fine wool market said, Roberts’s wool manager, Alistair Calvert.
A promising start to spring turned into an early summer and a long dry autumn. A patchy break occurred in April, but with no further rain until June, it will be a long winter with further feeding required. Tasmanian wool growers are becoming disillusioned caught in the fall out of the deepening drought in Queensland and New South Wales.
