The 27th sale of the 2025/26 wool selling season took place today, with a smaller offering of 6 109 bales.

Although fine micron wools comprised 74% of the offering, only 43,6% of the merino wools on offer were sustainably certified.

The market showed some good resilience today, despite a variable, but stronger SA Rand against the US$. The composition of the offering once again resulted in

a lower sales clearance of 89,2%

The all-merino indicator gained 2,9% to close on R252,65 p/kg, whilst the certified indicator increased by 3,2% to close on R258,00 p/kg.

A highest price of R325,34 p/kg(clean) (R213,00 p/kg greasy) was paid for a single bale lot of 16,1-micron merino wool.

The Australian market rebound this week and closed up by 3,6% (AU$) from their previous sale held on Wednesday, 25 March.

The major buyers on today’s sale were G Modiano SA (1 358), Standard Wool SA (1 327), Tianyu SA (768) and BKB Pinnacle Fibres (749).

The next sale will be held on 8 April 2026, when approximately 6 392 bales will be on offer.