The latest on the Australian wool market Season 2025/2026 Week 24, direct from the Elders wool team.
A positive week for the wool market with most of the MPG’s showing improvement.
All three selling centres were operating on Tuesday and Wednesday. The general market steadily rose each day. The national offering was catalogued with an increased offering of over 40,000 bales. This has only happened a handful of times so far this season.
Pre auction on the Tuesday, the market sentiment was generally positive, and the end sale result saw rises in most of both merino and crossbred MPG’s; merino’s generally 20 to 30c higher while most crossbreds rose a more modest 10 to 20c. The end-result saw the EMI up 12c to 1533.
Day two saw rises again, but at a more modest rate than the day before. The EMI was up 9c for the day and finishing at 1542, up 21c for the week and 402c or 35.3 per cent higher than the same week last season.
In USc terms the EMI is now sitting at 1023, up 23c for the week and sitting some 296c or 40.6pc higher when compared to the same time last season. In Australian dollar terms the increase in the overall market has seen total sales of wool go over 1 billion dollars ($1,033 million), an additional $152 million dollars gross more than at the same time last season.
Season to date the total offering is sitting at 4.3pc less than the same period last year, while AWTA testing volumes which were down 14.4pc for November, are season to date running at 10.4pc less. The worst performing state is South Australia, which is down 15.4pc, having experienced some of the worst drought conditions of any part of Australia during the last 12 month growing period.
A potential record price seasonal price of 49,000 cents was bid for a line of 12.5 micron fleece, the lot was passed in at auction.
Table showing wool prices to 12 December 2025
Graph showing Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) to 12 December 2025
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