I WELL remember the old man telling me about the good old days, when a bale of wool bought him a new car.

Well, those days, I can assure you, are long gone. Nowadays the boffins at AWI suggest you would need at least 30 bales of wool – and with that I doubt we are talking Mercedes.

Fortunately.

Because back in the 1950s when the exchange rate was one bale for one car, it was on the back of ...