The crisis of confidence in the wool industry has reached the mainstream media in recent weeks, appearing in national papers and on the television. Anecdotally we are hearing of merino flock dispersals every week and scanned in lamb ewes making little more than meat value. Profitability is the issue, and there is no easy fix.

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