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

[suffolksmallholder]

The wool sales are still taken very seriously where my brother works. Not huge amounts but quality wool all the same.
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[muleman]

The wool sales are still taken very seriously where my brother works. Not huge amounts but quality wool all the same.
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its not taken very seriously where i work!

 

[Hilly]

There's nothing left to lose, the wool isn't even worth rolling up.

Mine is.

 

[Hilly]

View attachment 965723its not taken very seriously where i work!

Why

There's nothing left to lose, the wool isn't even worth rolling up.

Why bother producing it ? You know it’s crap you know it’s worth bugger all , just moaning that no one wants it won’t get you very far . Do something about it .

 

[suffolksmallholder]

View attachment 965723its not taken very seriously where i work!

Now that is simply sad. Can you not put a bit more effort in to find a market for even something as simple as house insulation? Felt making, hat making. Looks like you have the all the gear and.... I won't finish the rest
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[Guleesh]

Why

Why bother producing it ? You know it’s crap you know it’s worth bugger all , just moaning that no one wants it won’t get you very far . Do something about it .

The damned sheep keep growing it, I cut it off but it just grows back again....

 

[yellowbelly]

The damned sheep keep growing it, I cut it off but it just grows back again....

Start this at 0.44.............

............if only it was so easy

 

[Hilly]

The damned sheep keep growing it, I cut it off but it just grows back again....

It can be improved or their are shedders, the main competitor ie the kiwi improves his wool, maybe what U.K. sheep farmer should
Be doing ?

 

[tepapa]

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DB wools price is lower than 2020 auction price. No one knows 2021 until April 2022,

Although you are correct that DB price is lower than the WB auction price. You need to deduct the handling cost from the WB auction price to get to the producer payment price, the DB price to the farmer is before their handling cost so the return to the producer is significantly more selling direct.

 

[muleman]

Why

Why bother producing it ? You know it’s crap you know it’s worth bugger all , just moaning that no one wants it won’t get you very far . Do something about it .

How do you stop them producing it, i havnt found out yet!

 

[Hilly]

How do you stop them producing it, i havnt found out yet!

Improve it , or keep shedders.

 

[Guleesh]

It can be improved or their are shedders.

I know, I do use the wool though, and for the foreseeable future there's more important goals I'd like to work toward than getting out of the shearing.

 

[muleman]

Improve it , or keep shedders.

Have you ever gone in the ring with a pen of fat lambs and not been sellin so well so youve said....'but theyve got lovely long wool'

 

[muleman]

Now that is simply sad. Can you not put a bit more effort in to find a market for even something as simple as house insulation? Felt making, hat making. Looks like you have the all the gear and.... I won't finish the rest
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I will maybe try and make a few hats with it this time.

 

[Hilly]

Have you ever gone in the ring with a pen of fat lambs and not been sellin so well so youve said....'but theyve got lovely long wool'

No but I don’t spend my time moaning about how it worth nothing either I do something about things .

 

[Guleesh]

No but I don’t spend my time moaning about how it worth nothing either I do something about things .

And which direction are you heading in? improving the fleeces or shedders?

 

[livestock 1]

Wrong again. This is the bit that you still don't get.

BW paid out for 2020 clip, the prices being quoted by DB wools is what they are hoping to pay for 2021 wool, which will be less than the BW auction price. The "other" buyers paid little or nothing for 2020 wool.
BW will not know how much people will get until they sell it and that won't be until April 2022.

BW do not buy wool they sell it and return the value less the handling costs.
Standard who are underwriting the payments obviously think the price of wool is about to rise significantly by paying this amount now. You have to remember they will still have to grade and sort this wool so have significant costs to get it to the same guaranteed quality they can buy from the auction.

I’ve told you before and will only repeat this one more time
For a good number of yearsi haven’t received as much as the DB wools quote
Neither has EVERYONE else I know of
Makes no odds what you say might happen or what might happen when this wool goes to auction
It’s money in the bank that counts
They can quote anything then downgrade it once it’s there
The only way is downwards
If you are getting money out of it somehow good on you

 

[glasshouse]

The wool board should be pushing it as eco insulation which foam and rockwool certainly isnt

 

[Hilly]

And which direction are you heading in? improving the fleeces or shedders?

Improving fleece , shedders wouldn’t work up here .

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

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Although you are correct that DB price is lower than the WB auction price. You need to deduct the handling cost from the WB auction price to get to the producer payment price, the DB price to the farmer is before their handling cost so the return to the producer is significantly more selling direct.

Wrong again.
You are not comparing like with like.
We don't know what this years auction price is or what the handling costs are.

Until the last year BW returns have been better than the others.
I admit you need a crystal ball to know what will happen in the next 12 months but as I said the odds on prices getting better are good.