Dirt is costing woolgrowers $$millions

By Mark Griggs and Stephen Burns
Updated April 3 2020 - 11:15am, first published April 1 2020 - 6:00pm
Wool buyer, Scott Carmody, Wool Trade Consulting, Sydney, calculates lower yields due to dust has cost Australian woolgrowers $126.558m so far in the 2019/20 wool selling season.
Wool buyer, Scott Carmody, Wool Trade Consulting, Sydney, calculates lower yields due to dust has cost Australian woolgrowers $126.558m so far in the 2019/20 wool selling season.

Dust penetration and loss of production due to drought has cost Australian woolgrowers an estimated $450 million despite the price of wool per kilogram increasing in the past three financial years.

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