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

[tepapa]

.......other more 'local' wool breeds are available
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..mind you, when a fleece like this...
View attachment 962933.........8kg, is worth 40p, even a staunch supporter of the BWMB or British Wool or whatever they've re-branded themselves as now (just wondering how much that little exercise has cost us too ) like me is starting to think something needs shaking up at Bradford

FFS, our Herdwick wool is worth more per kg than our Lincoln wool......
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How can that be right Strikes me they are taking the p!ss.
I think I need to talk to my Board Member

I was thinking the same when I read the payment schedule. What makes lustre so worthless? Is it corse or a weak fiber?

 

[Hilly]

@yellowbelly has just the thing.....

Edit: he must have heard me thinking.

When you have 3000 I come and watch you lambing

 

[neilo]

When you have 3000 I come and watch you lambing

That’ll be handy. I’ll need someone to hold their curtains open for the lambs to get out.

 

[Tim W]

The best hope for wool is not developing new uses but ensuring there is a pollution tax on synthetic fibres

 

[yellowbelly]

I was thinking the same when I read the payment schedule. What makes lustre so worthless? Is it course or a weak fiber?

It has a lot more lanolin in so takes more washing, don't know whether that has anything to do with it
It's very strong and hard wearing - maybe it's too strong for modern times

 

[Ffermer Bach]

The best hope for wool is not developing new uses but ensuring there is a pollution tax on synthetic fibres

which there should be, disgrace what is happening with micro fibres in the environment

 

[tepapa]

It has a lot more lanolin in so takes more washing, don't know whether that has anything to do with it
It's very strong and hard wearing - maybe it's too strong for modern times

Probably lasts too long so doesn't need replacing so often. Doesn't fit with today's throw away society.

 

[andybk]

It has a lot more lanolin in so takes more washing, don't know whether that has anything to do with it
It's very strong and hard wearing - maybe it's too strong for modern times

which will be worth more when palm oil is banned or taxed

 

[Hilly]

Wool, one of the most sustainable products I can think of , all the chat from government s about sustainability etc etc , they talk out their backsides , a sustainable product and no one interested in it.

 

[Guleesh]

It has a lot more lanolin in so takes more washing, don't know whether that has anything to do with it
It's very strong and hard wearing - maybe it's too strong for modern times

How many 8 ton lots of lincoln wool do you think are produced in UK each year?

 

[yellowbelly]

which will be worth more when palm oil is banned or taxed

Having been round one of the scouring plants in Bradford, I was shocked to find that all UK lanolin is deemed lower quality and is sold to somewhere in the Caribbean to prawn farms. They use it to feed growing prawns because it is very high in protein.

We then import 'superior' lanolin from NZ and Australia

 

[tepapa]

How many 8 ton lots of lincoln wool do you think are produced in UK each year?

One. At 8 kgs a fleece they only need 1000 to make up a lot. If there isn't 1000 Lincoln's in the country, they only need 500 and two years supply.

 

[yellowbelly]

How many 8 ton lots of lincoln wool do you think are produced in UK each year?

One. At 8 kgs a fleece they only need 1000 to make up a lot. If there isn't 1000 Lincoln's in the country, they only need 500 and two years supply.

There's only about 600 registered ewes. A lot are in very small flocks that will process and hand spin their own few fleeces.

We have a couple of sheets a year that will be about 140kg each. There'll maybe be 6 or 7 of us that send a total of about 2 tonnes a year to Stamford. With other bits and pieces, I'd say they'll only get 3 tonnes a year.

 

[Hilly]

There's only about 600 registered ewes. A lot are in very small flocks that will process and hand spin their own few fleeces.

We have a couple of sheets a year that will be about 140kg each. There'll maybe be 6 or 7 of us that send a total of about 2 tonnes a year to Stamford. With other bits and pieces, I'd say they'll only get 3 tonnes a year.

Lovely looking sheep by the way .

 

[delilah]

FFS, our Herdwick wool is worth more per kg than our Lincoln wool......

I think I have read that they only use Herdwick for thermafleece as its part of the marketing story, if so then that is creating a demand. And shows that if you create a story, rather than just calling it 'wool', there are opportunities. ,

 

[Hilly]

What’s blackie wool worth ?

 

[Bill dog]

Cattle bedding at best !
Any idea how many millions my Romney wool will make me this year ?

 

[Hilly]

Cattle bedding at best !
Any idea how many millions my Romney wool will make me this year ?

19 p kilo I think

 

[delilah]

Anyone wants to add value to theirs you can always send it down our way .

https://spinningearthwool.co.uk/fibre/

 

[livestock 1]

You would need 3,320,000 kilos of Swale wool to pay the top man £166,000 wages