The Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell 12¢ or 0.9% for the week, to close at 1,306¢. To put the market into perspective, the EMI is currently 17.4% lower on this time last year in AUD, however, if we look at the EMI in USD it is only 1.1% down on this time last year thanks to the climbing Aussie dollar. The EMI in USD terms finished the week at 1040¢.
The market dropped across most of the microns this week with falls between 5 to 65¢ recorded across the 16 to 21 MPG’s. Melbourne fell the hardest in the finer micron categories, with the 16.5 MPG dropping 50¢ to finish the week at 2,238¢, which is still higher than this time last year when it was at 2,169¢ and still above the five-year average for this category of 1,926¢.
While all of the finer microns fell, in a reversal of previous weeks, crossbreds finished the week positive across the board with lifts between 4 and 35¢.
As mentioned earlier, the AUD was stronger over the week again, lifting 2.7% on last week to settle at US$0.7963 for the selling week. At this level, the AUD is sitting 21.2% higher than this time last year when it was US$0.6547 which helps explain the high EMI in USD terms we have seen recently.
Fremantle followed the trend in the east with all MPG’s falling. The biggest drops were for the 18 & 18.5 microns which fell 65 and 68¢ respectively. The Western Market Indicator (WMI) finished 12¢ lower at 1,360¢ or 1,074 in US¢.
Again, we saw a solid clearance of bales to the trade this week. AWEX reported that 50,138 bales were offered this week, 4.8% withdrawn and 18.4% passed-in, resulting in 40,908 bales sold. Clearances continue to trend well above the average clearance season to date of 31,613 bales.
This week on Mecardo, Andrew woods took a look at queensland wool production in two separate articles from the early 1990’s to the present. While we have seen a significant decline in the Queensland sheep herd size, the most recent numbers show that the sheep flock is growing.
Prices down, pass-in rate up
The Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell 12¢ or 0.9% for the week, to close at 1,306¢. To put the market into perspective, the EMI is currently 17.4% lower on this time last year in AUD, however, if we look at the EMI in USD it is only 1.1% down on this time last year thanks to the climbing Aussie dollar. The EMI in USD terms finished the week at 1040¢.
The market dropped across most of the microns this week with falls between 5 to 65¢ recorded across the 16 to 21 MPG’s. Melbourne fell the hardest in the finer micron categories, with the 16.5 MPG dropping 50¢ to finish the week at 2,238¢, which is still higher than this time last year when it was at 2,169¢ and still above the five-year average for this category of 1,926¢.
While all of the finer microns fell, in a reversal of previous weeks, crossbreds finished the week positive across the board with lifts between 4 and 35¢.
As mentioned earlier, the AUD was stronger over the week again, lifting 2.7% on last week to settle at US$0.7963 for the selling week. At this level, the AUD is sitting 21.2% higher than this time last year when it was US$0.6547 which helps explain the high EMI in USD terms we have seen recently.
Fremantle followed the trend in the east with all MPG’s falling. The biggest drops were for the 18 & 18.5 microns which fell 65 and 68¢ respectively. The Western Market Indicator (WMI) finished 12¢ lower at 1,360¢ or 1,074 in US¢.
Again, we saw a solid clearance of bales to the trade this week. AWEX reported that 50,138 bales were offered this week, 4.8% withdrawn and 18.4% passed-in, resulting in 40,908 bales sold. Clearances continue to trend well above the average clearance season to date of 31,613 bales.
This week on Mecardo, Andrew woods took a look at queensland wool production in two separate articles from the early 1990’s to the present. While we have seen a significant decline in the Queensland sheep herd size, the most recent numbers show that the sheep flock is growing.
The week ahead….
Another big offering of 50,535 bales is lined up for next week but we can expect to see some hesitant growers reduce their offering based on the falling market this week and possibly another high pass-in rate depending on the outcome.
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Data sources: AWEX, AWI, Mecardo
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