Wool...what will you do with yours...

Guleesh

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Isle of Skye
Good theory, it’s one that farmers seem too use a lot… but the big businesses we sell our finished product too don’t… 😂
I agree, farmers are price takers rather than price makers. collusion between buyers at auctions is a factor that has been instrumental in making it this way. Farmers are the only ones that will sell their produce for less than the cost of production, have a moan, then go home and try even harder to produce even more of that same product to sell for next year.
Mmm.... I wonder why how they can afford to do this??
 
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Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Just off the phone with my mate I shear with... his neighbour buys ewe lambs to lamb and then sell on as gimmers. Texacloth have paid him 10p/kg for Scotch Mule Hogg wool


Got my BW letter today after sending my clip on Monday.


2020 clip has came to a flat rate of 15pkg across all my wool.
But as above - Texacloth were paying 10pkg for Hogg wool last year. So I'm at least 5pkg better off than if I'd sold it to the Irish


The Irish do not pay better.
 

Tubbylew

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Location
Herefordshire
Unfortunately it is not the Irish who control it but our very own 2 x scouring plants who have used the "Irish" as a way around the Marketing Act.

These are the very same people who buy out of the Auction and one regularly buys over 50% of the offering at every sale. It is not quite a cartel but is verging on sharp practice and by buying wool direct off farm at a low price helps keep the auction price down especially at the start of the seasonal sales.
This is the whole point, 2 scouring plants, the wool industry has been so catagorically trounced by the petrochemical industry, that we are relying on 1 buyer to prop the whole lot up, it won't alter until there are more buyers/competition between them, and I can't see that happening.
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Got my BW letter today after sending my clip on Monday.


2020 clip has came to a flat rate of 15pkg across all my wool.
But as above - Texacloth were paying 10pkg for Hogg wool last year. So I'm at least 5pkg better off than if I'd sold it to the Irish


The Irish do not pay better.

Or put another way, a 50% return on the money for waiting 12 months.
 

hally

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Livestock Farmer
Location
cumbria
I am sure 20p was the going rate around here for lowland wool from the Irish.It’s double that know so a 100% return for waiting a year😁
Next year Rodney
 

sheepwise

Member
Location
SW Scotland
Wool has been worth bugger all for as long as I can remember. It’s just classed as a by product now. I can’t ever see it being worth much anymore which is sad. It’s basically a product to keep plenty of other people in work
Up to a couple of years ago we were getting a payment of around £4K for our wool.Paid a few bills as we sheared them ourselves.
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Genuine question. Should we UK sheep producers set up a farmer’s cooperative and build a modern scouring plant as lack of competition in that area seems to be the main issue. We wouldn’t need a board then and would have a product to sell at true value as an environmentally friendly fibre to existing and developing markets
 

muleman

Member
Got my BW letter today after sending my clip on Monday.


2020 clip has came to a flat rate of 15pkg across all my wool.
But as above - Texacloth were paying 10pkg for Hogg wool last year. So I'm at least 5pkg better off than if I'd sold it to the Irish


The Irish do not pay better.
15 p per kg? I thought you had top quality wool🤔😂
 

Bob

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Location
Co Durham
Got my BW letter today after sending my clip on Monday.


2020 clip has came to a flat rate of 15pkg across all my wool.
But as above - Texacloth were paying 10pkg for Hogg wool last year. So I'm at least 5pkg better off than if I'd sold it to the Irish


The Irish do not pay better.
DB Wools we’re paying 45pkg last year the same as they are paying now. No need to wrap it either oddments all go in as well
 

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