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Wool Sales Catalogue 19/2025
published 29 Jan 2026

The 2025/26 wool selling season continued today, with the 19th sale of the season taking place.

The offering of 7 363 bales mainly consisted of long length, fine micron wools and sustainably certified wools comprised 56,7% of the merino wools offered.

Despite the market having to contend with the SA Rand trading 3% stronger against the US$, the market had a good performance today and achieved an excellent overall sales clearance of 98,5%. The market also managed to deliver positive returns in US$ terms.

The all-merino indicator eased slightly by 0,3% to close on R228,18 p/kg, with the certified indicator closing down by 0,9% to close on R231,83 p/kg.

A highest price of R310,49 p/kg (clean)(R232,00 p/kg greasy) was paid for a 2-bale lot of 16,1 micron merino wool.

The Australian market shed 1,6% (AU$) this week, but still managed positive returns in US$ from their previous auction held on Wednesday, 21 January.

The major buyers on today’s sale were BKB Pinnacle Fibres (2 146), Tianyu SA (1 159), Standard Wool SA (1 099) and Stucken & Co (1 073).

The next sale will be held on 4 February 2026 when approximately 7 772 bales will be on offer.

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