do many people burn the wool? might be best to just burn wool off the hill breeds when prices are down and make the wool board shout for it.
supply and demand,if its not worth anything to them the supply should maaybe be tightened, a few years ago we sent them 700 swale,100 mule and 50 bfl fleeces and got about £38. if we`d just sent the mule and bfl wudda got more than that probWhy would the wool board shout for it?
They sell it on your behalf... they don't buy it off you to make money from it (unlike the Irish)
supply and demand,if its not worth anything to them the supply should maaybe be tightened, a few years ago we sent them 700 swale,100 mule and 50 bfl fleeces and got about £38. if we`d just sent the mule and bfl wudda got more than that prob
Actually I'm going to split hairs here.The wool is worth nothing to them anyway (except what they take for selling it on your behalf - same as the comission auctioneers take for selling your lambs)...
supply and demand,if its not worth anything to them the supply should maaybe be tightened, a few years ago we sent them 700 swale,100 mule and 50 bfl fleeces and got about £38. if we`d just sent the mule and bfl wudda got more than that prob
Actually I'm going to split hairs here.
Auctioneers do not sell lambs for you.
They buy them off you.
Only 50c/kg in ireland......LP - 65p/kg
Tex - 1.02/kg
Both for ungraded wool
Is the issue here not more with the quality of swale wool than the service from BWMB. It's the same with the blackies now, full of black fibres and kemp probably from the use of swale blood.Good clean types are a rarity nowadays because the breeders aren't interested due to the low value of the product.supply and demand,if its not worth anything to them the supply should maaybe be tightened, a few years ago we sent them 700 swale,100 mule and 50 bfl fleeces and got about £38. if we`d just sent the mule and bfl wudda got more than that prob
Remember the BWMB will pay you what it makes at auction and just deducts the marketing costs.
The Irish are paying a very low price at the moment because world prices for medium and coarse wools have been low.
It looks as if prices will rebound quickly this season, a weaker currency less wool in the world and a switch to natural fibres as a result of concerns about plastic and man made fibre.
We receive a pool price averaged over the season and it is very rare for the Irish to pay a higher price.
Also all of the so called export buyers are now owned by the two scouring plants who like to buy as much wool as possible early season off farms in order to depress the auction price in the early sales.
If we all stuck together and sold it all through the auction then our prices could well be even better.
If you think the system of the BWMB doesn't work well ask a European sheep farmer what he does with his wool!
I don't think anyone has complaints about what the wool board does, Its what they don't do, Their services are becoming non existant
Find Texacloth a very professional bunch to deal with and currently paying 30p/kg more than Laurence Pearce are quoting for Romney wool.
LP - 65p/kg
Tex - 1.02/kg
Both for ungraded wool
Why does the Texacloth guy still send some of his wool to the board if the job is that wonderfull!?
Texacloth are paying 65p and up to 85pHave heard reports the Irish firms are paying 60p/kg (white wool) round me.
What services are non existent?
How much a kilo are they quoting?
The Irish don't any more as they are owned by the scouring companies, who do buy wool at the auction, they would prefer to buy direct off farms than through the auction as they can rip people off as very few farmers know what their wool is worth.
I know that. I meen the guy that is the agent for Texacloth in our area still sends some wool to the wool board. The Irish aren't thick are they! Instead of going to the auctions to buy wool they go straight to the farmer. And do you seriously think that they do it for the farmers benefit!?Texacloth don’t and have never sold wool to the board. Other way around, they buy it in the auction for customers.