Fleeces from the Australian Fleece Competition auctioned

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Fleeces from the Australian Fleece Competition, held at July’s Australian Sheep & Wool Show in Bendigo, were auctioned at the Melbourne Woolstores on Tuesday. All proceeds go to Rural Aid.

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00:00So here at the Melbourne Wool Store today, we've got nine bales of donated fleeces to be offered

00:05and sold on behalf of Rural Aid. So I'd like to give a big thank you to all of the exhibitors

00:10who generously donated their fleeces. We're hoping to make a good donation to Rural Aid this year.

00:16So this year the Australian Pleaser Competition attracted 428 fleeces, all wool types representing

00:22all growing states in Australia. That was on behalf of 150 exhibitors who got behind the

00:29competition and we're seeing around two-thirds of those auctioning today. Over the full 24 years

00:33of the competition we've been so, so grateful to them for making the effort to one, put their

00:39fleeces forward in what has been pretty tough growing conditions, to learn something from

00:44the results they've gained and to be generous enough to donate those fleeces as well. I think

00:48it's showing a really good community spirit and great to see the charity resonating with them.

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