Are fleeces helping to keep sheep prices high?

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Updated March 30 2017 - 7:21am, first published 5:00am
MERINO wethers topped at $154 and Merino lambs from $126 to $143 at Monday's Dubbo prime sheep and lamb sale. Christie and Hood agent Paul Alchin, Gilgandra, is inspecting skin coverage on older wethers before the sale.
MERINO wethers topped at $154 and Merino lambs from $126 to $143 at Monday's Dubbo prime sheep and lamb sale. Christie and Hood agent Paul Alchin, Gilgandra, is inspecting skin coverage on older wethers before the sale.

AS wool’s Northern Market Indicator (NMI) has increased by as much as 30 per cent in the past 12 months (to 1641 cents a kilogram) the commodity is now certainly helping to hold up prime mutton and Merino lamb prices.

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Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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