It's been said that at its peak, Melbourne's wool stockpile alone would have filled the Melbourne Cricket Ground three times over. Aided by a low Australian dollar and a recovering wool market, nationally six hundred thousand stockpile bales have been cleared since the start of the year. It's ten years since the wool reserve price scheme collapsed leaving 4.7 million bales in storage so the end of the stockpile, not only marks a major milestone it also removes a major millstone from around the wool industry's neck.