Wool clip yield.
- Thread starter daithi
- Start date
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
told my shearer before he started he could have all the wool as a bonus....he only charged me £100 for 70 odd....so i was happy and so was he
- Location
- East Sussex
I bet you wish you had a Wool Board!
Who weighed the wool, how do you know if it was correct. All Wool Board scales have to be checked by Weights and Measures to make sure they are correct.
Also how do you know if 65 cents (55p) per kg is the right price?
Are wool yield were similar. The money for 2016 came this week and it seem down on 2015. Hope it picks up for 2017 to cover costs.
It was already broken.
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- Location
- South Norfolk
It was better back then! No sat nav or air con. Beef dripping sandwiches. Kids dying of scarlet fever and TB.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
From a quick tally up, my .Highlander ewes average about 4kg. The Charollais ewes average about 2kg, but quite a variation in fleece types & weights amongst those. Ewe lambs obviously less.
60c/kg seems very low. Our 2016 wool clip came back at 74p/kg average (Highlanders, pure Charollais & ewe lambs), which was down from nearly £1/kg the previous year. I thought that was bad enough, and your price certainly doesn't encourage me to sell to the Irishman.
From a quick tally up, my .Highlander ewes average about 4kg. The Charollais ewes average about 2kg, but quite a variation in fleece types & weights amongst those. Ewe lambs obviously less.
60c/kg seems very low. Our 2016 wool clip came back at 74p/kg average (Highlanders, pure Charollais & ewe lambs), which was down from nearly £1/kg the previous year. I thought that was bad enough, and your price certainly doesn't encourage me to sell to the Irishman.
74p/kg ! You must be filthy rich
daithi
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We got paid €1.10/kg last year for 2016 wool paid upfront.
60c/kg is the going rate for lowland wool around here this year.
The scales I am not sure about ,that is why I asked on here. I wasn't about when he picked it and I left dad on charge.
I thought it would have averaged more than 2.5kg/head