Wool...what will you do with yours...
- Thread starter Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Do you have their price list for last year?
livestock 1
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livestock 1
Member
Yes I rang the mart up this week to see what hoggs were doing as I had a load to sell and I asked him for last year’s prices
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
And can you post it please?
livestock 1
Member
Can you post last year’s wool boards prices first please seeing you are being silly ?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Why am I being silly? When I send this year's (2021) wool in, I will get paid for my 2020 wool. If you post your buyers 2020 price list - which you say you have - we can compare and see how bad the WB is
livestock 1
Member
You haven’t managed to quote any prices at all on here over all these pages
I’ve quoted two different outlets for wool yet you argue that everyone should sell wool for a quarter or a third of the better quote I provided
Wool board has made a poor job of selling wool for around ten years now so if you are getting excited about what was happening last year don’t bother Wool board was shyte then too
Why shoot DB wools down when they can manage to make something out of our wool?
If wool board cannot manage tough that’s how business works
muleman
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Its a breath of fresh air to see a firm offering a better price, they should be applauded.
- Location
- East Sussex
Wrong again. This is the bit that you still don't get.
BW paid out for 2020 clip, the prices being quoted by DB wools is what they are hoping to pay for 2021 wool, which will be less than the BW auction price. The "other" buyers paid little or nothing for 2020 wool.
BW will not know how much people will get until they sell it and that won't be until April 2022.
BW do not buy wool they sell it and return the value less the handling costs.
Standard who are underwriting the payments obviously think the price of wool is about to rise significantly by paying this amount now. You have to remember they will still have to grade and sort this wool so have significant costs to get it to the same guaranteed quality they can buy from the auction.
- Location
- East Sussex
muleman
Member
We can hazard a good guess going on the pittance theyve sent for the last decade or so!
- Location
- East Sussex
Without looking at previous price schedules to check I think in 2017/18 Mule wool would have been over 70p.
It has been a fairly consistent price over the last ten years before 2020.
muleman
Member
Its the so called inferior wool that is going to be quids in going the other way by the looks of it.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Just checking all you guys that advocate we sell direct to Texacloth or DB are also happy that we put our lamb all straight to Larry, yeah?
- Location
- Isle of Skye
No, we should set up a cooperative auctioneers owned by the producers, that sell the lambs on our behalf. Obviously there will need to be a few top jobs to be paid for and various other expenses, if there's any money left then I suppose the producer can get it, but only once they've sent next years lambs in, mind.
muleman
Member
No, cos live weight is very good for lambs.
If lambs were a poor trade in the auction and we were giving them away or just reciving tuppence but deadweight was paying more we'd be at our wits end and have to go deadweight, it would be the last resort which is where some of us are at now with the wool.
When you are getting nothing for a product you have nothing to lose by trying something different.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Apart from the last half sentence, that’s exactly what I do with mine. Sell them through a farmer owned auction house that the family owns shares in. I don’t grudge a penny of the competitive salary we pay to the staff either, and I know that selling that way means nobody can gain a monopoly/ duopoly, but instead the lambs make the market price on the day their sold.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
It’s live weight that sets the deadweight though, isn’t it? If there was no auction then the big guys would just tell you what you’re getting regardless of the value.