Where is your wool going this year ?

[Anymulewilldo]

NZ/Australia are the antipodes. So antipodean means of that region

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Fleeces are graded and the veg matter/britch wool being removed in the shearing shed.

I'd agree with @neilo
Blue spray is a waste of time. If there are no flies about the cut will dry up in two days and scab over.
It's flies that stop cuts healing and blue spray won't help that and neither will fly poor ons . Only thing I've found that will stop flies for cuts to heal is Stockholm tar.

Shearing cuts are down to, bad technique, bad gear and bad sheep.
Shearer training will improve your technique, bad gear can be hard to improve without the right guidance to where it's going wrong, again training, but bad sheep are equally to blame, and by that I mean sheep not ready or mixed sheep, either mixed breeds or mixed condition. You put a comb on to shear the majority in the mob, your gear may be going great but then you get a scummy sticky one or an odd ball and you end up cutting it as the sheep isn't ready and/or your on the wrong gear. If you put the right gear on for that one ewe you'd end up cutting all the others. As shearers we should just let unfit sheep go unshorn but no shepherd want to shear 20 themselves that the shearers let go as not fit to shear.

I usually end up set up on the end stand with the Longhorn and I get all the thin ewes pushed too me. It might take me 3x longer too shear the bad ones than they are flying the good ones off in but it keeps them going!

 

[pgk]

shearing under way , is everyone still going to stick with the wool board , or taking it to the Irish ? half a mind to split mine see what the difference is this time , will have about 20+ bags charollais and a few bags zwartbles , Seem to remember i had about £60 last year for dozen bags off wmb , Neighbour had a bill for £60 for 100 odd fleeces nearly all charollais >

Either in the muck heap or as mulch around the fruit bushes, new hedge, trees etc, same as last year. would only just cover diesel costs of taking it to collection point so better to keep the fertiliser value on farm.

 

[Downtrodden Dad]

I would have received roughly £1200 last year from DB if I took it 40 miles to their collection point. Time will tell but I rung WB last week to see what I should expect from last year he estimates I should get between £1200 and £1400,and it was collected with no haulage charge. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now at least.

 

[andybk]

British Wool announces 135% increase in payments for 2021 clip

British Wool has announced it will be making payments worth £8.4m to its members for the 2021 clip, an increase to an overall average of 36.4p/kg.

www.farminguk.com

(posted elsewhere by agriland )

 

[Bob]

British Wool announces 135% increase in payments for 2021 clip

British Wool has announced it will be making payments worth £8.4m to its members for the 2021 clip, an increase to an overall average of 36.4p/kg.

www.farminguk.com

(posted elsewhere by agriland )

DB wools paid 45 p per kg last year

 

[Nithsdale]

DB wools paid 45 p per kg last year

Was that the average for all wool they bought?

 

[sheep breeder]

What’s the name of the Irish company buying wool,

 

[muleman]

I would have received roughly £1200 last year from DB if I took it 40 miles to their collection point. Time will tell but I rung WB last week to see what I should expect from last year he estimates I should get between £1200 and £1400,and it was collected with no haulage charge. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now at least.

There is no doubt that a bit of competition has sharpened the wool board up .

 

[muleman]

Was that the average for all wool they bought?

No , just the worst quality that wool board cant give anything for.

 

[Nithsdale]

No , just the worst quality that wool board cant give anything for.

Stop fishing, I'm not hungry enough to bite

 

[unlacedgecko]

What’s the name of the Irish company buying wool,

Lawrence Pierce.

 

[muleman]

No , just the worst quality that wool board cant give anything for.

Well you know jolly fine 45 ppkg wasnt the average, its you thats fishing!

 

[Nithsdale]

Well you know jolly fine 45 ppkg wasnt the average, its you thats fishing!

Well no, I don't jolly well know. That's why I asked

 

[andybk]

well dropped mine (12 sheets + have another half dozen to go ) off at wb collection depot today , i am now a year in credit , (for last year ) so we will see what transpires , if its a crap payment this year ie below what my neighbour gets from LP for the same quality wool , the irish will have it next regardless .

 

[Pistonbroke]

Bags are left here for other farms to collect. Depot manager brought them yesterday and says there's been increases in the prices at every sale. New boss is rationing the amount of better grades put in each auction to stop firms stockpiling, WB are paying in one go now instead of split payments. Average is still only looking like 40p yet though.

 

[Estate fencing.]

People say the wool isn’t worth it but was thinking today that I can shear 25/hour completely on my own, so if a Hogg has 2kg of wool at 40p that’s £20/hour. Still better wage than most things I do.

 

[andybk]

has anyone weighed a full wool bag ? , just wondered what weight as a sort of average trod in a frame , im well aware there is a big variation.

 

[Estate fencing.]

has anyone weighed a full wool bag ? , just wondered what weight as a sort of average trod in a frame , im well aware there is a big variation.

I think we averaged 82kg last year.

 

[neilo]

has anyone weighed a full wool bag ? , just wondered what weight as a sort of average trod in a frame , im well aware there is a big variation.

Mine usually average around 70kg, but I don’t try to force them full as not paying haulage by the bag.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

TO TOOK 600 KG TO BRITISH WOOL 2021, got £106 not paid for 9 months or when ever it was sold, last year i went to db wools, there collection centre is literally a few miles from my house, much closer than Bradford anyway,

too around 600kg at 45ppkg, £270 ish paid within 2 weeks, as much as i would like to support bwmb i cant make it work for me financially