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A pen full of merino sheep with one looking directly at the camera.

Kojonup farmer Steve McGuire welcomes live export moratorium

"It's probably the straw that broke the camel's back."

Hand holding wool.

"Either we need to start producing it at a lower cost, or we need to get more money for it."

Wool packed in wool bales sitting in a row in a woolshed.

Drone shot of a combine harvester working in a field

"With the effort and workload with wool production, some people — and especially the new generation — would prefer to sit on a tractor than the 365-day maintenance of a sheep flock,"
he said.

sheep map

"If we take, for example, a high-end merino T-shirt that might retail for $100 — there's only about $2 worth of wool goes into that,"
he said.

man shearing a sheep and the sheep looking to camera

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