Accoridng to the BWMB website they are making no advance payment this year and no one will get anything for the 2020 clip until 2021 when it has all been sold. Your story doesn't seem to add up
£7.49
- Thread starter wiggyv8
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- Location
- South Wales UK
All the BWMB staff ,contractors etc etc still getting their full wages allegedly???
Err,if there’s wool to be processed it would be difficult not to have staff working and otherwise they will be on furlough.
Are Tesco shelf stackers getting a pay cut because there are less shoppers going through the doors?
I thought that,next years thread could be titled......£0.00
- Location
- North Wales
They haven't paid anything for this year's wool. You will get a joy of a cheque in the post next year when your wool is sold. Its currently in storage getting sorted and graded.
There is always the freedom to wash your fleeces,process them and knit wool jumpers.......then complain you can’t sell them because it costs too much.(ooh and scratchy.)
We've a half acre band through a field where the yield meter goes off the scale in wheat, above 18t/ha - up until 40 years ago it was the farms 'dead hole'.
If I could identify, patent and bottle the specific factor that whacks the yield up I'd be a billionaire. It would bugger up arable marketing for every other farmer on the planet right enough, but hey hoe, "every cloud" and all that... ??
The wool is the most profitable bit of our sheep.
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/wool-processing-mini-mill.205896/
As others have said, at a national level it really should be used to insulate homes, yes it would need a subsidy but so have windmills PV etc.
https://www.thermafleece.com/
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/wool-processing-mini-mill.205896/
As others have said, at a national level it really should be used to insulate homes, yes it would need a subsidy but so have windmills PV etc.
https://www.thermafleece.com/
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
dont get me wrong im pro wool board , but they would have done better telling everyone to store or dispose of this year, the shock of the low payments this year will be a heavy burden for the board to carry long term , as more turn to shedders or other outlets , We all know whats happened but its no good offering basically nothing and expecting everyone to carry on regardless
- Location
- Galloway
Check for last year's Wool today £117 final payment making total£388 for 1150 k g of mule and textel cross.wool.33p per kg
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
All co-operatives end up being run more for the benefit of the employees and management than the producers.
The trouble is the Wool Board seem to have buried there heads in the sand and not adapted to future market possibilities of doing new things with wool .
Yes they sell the raw material but it would be to the wool boards benefit to look outside the box and sell a vision of a product that is the most natural warm material that we have.
Id like to know what the Board of Management have done in the last 5 years to adapt as wool has not been worth much for many years?
There are so many questions that they should be making every effort to answer .
Can it be used in Digesters?
Research has show it breaks down to become a valuable Fertilizer.
There are a list of possibilities and id like to know what will now be there future strategy as we need the Wool Board and they need us.
So if this year has been nothing but a kick up the backside and a wake up call to the Wool Board to re structure there direction and target new Markets then it may be worth it for the future.
Lets face it the Irish buyers out there are not out to help us they are offering nothing better price wise other than paying the poor price up front. No doubt they are going to store the wool and then when the market improves a little they will get it sold. We need the Wool Board and a handing it over to the Irish wool buyers for pennies will help no one in the long term.
Yes they sell the raw material but it would be to the wool boards benefit to look outside the box and sell a vision of a product that is the most natural warm material that we have.
Id like to know what the Board of Management have done in the last 5 years to adapt as wool has not been worth much for many years?
There are so many questions that they should be making every effort to answer .
Can it be used in Digesters?
Research has show it breaks down to become a valuable Fertilizer.
There are a list of possibilities and id like to know what will now be there future strategy as we need the Wool Board and they need us.
So if this year has been nothing but a kick up the backside and a wake up call to the Wool Board to re structure there direction and target new Markets then it may be worth it for the future.
Lets face it the Irish buyers out there are not out to help us they are offering nothing better price wise other than paying the poor price up front. No doubt they are going to store the wool and then when the market improves a little they will get it sold. We need the Wool Board and a handing it over to the Irish wool buyers for pennies will help no one in the long term.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Disposal would make no difference to the value - removal of the entire UK clip would not make a jot of difference to the world market. And where would I store it? I need every inch of shed space for farming.
Happy to have the board store it for me, sell it when they can (for what they can) and send me the money when and if they have anything left at the end.
- Location
- Northumberland
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I wonder what the wage bill is for every kg of wool that would determine how good the board is for the farmer.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Look it up if you're interested. They publish all the accounts.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Apparently High End Hotels and Cruise Ships use and re-fit on a regular basis with woollen carpets and at present that sector has dried up, hence the further collapse in wool prices.
Write to our big white chief then.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Do you have an address?