Harkness decides to hold not fold in wool market

By Catherine Miller
Updated August 26 2019 - 12:04pm, first published August 22 2019 - 2:00pm
ON HOLD: Richard Harkness, Tintinara, hopes to ride out the drop in the wool market.
ON HOLD: Richard Harkness, Tintinara, hopes to ride out the drop in the wool market.

LAST week's freefall in the wool market which saw the eastern market indicator shed 163 cents a kilogram could not have come at a worse time for Tintinara woolgrower Richard Harkness, with his 160-bale Merino clip due to be offered at auction next week.

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