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

[neilo]

Your experience still confuses me ?
We've had no other complaints on this ---in fact quite the opposite
And a farmer very close to you ordered another 100 yearlings recently and remarked how good his experience has been

What’s he comparing them too? Anything at all?

 

[neilo]

Maybe they just look at the Charolais lambs they've just spit out and say, "Urrgh, WTF is that?"




How many have you got @neilo?
Do you want somebody to take them off your hands?

They were all bred pure, so the photobomber has nothing to do with them.

How many have I got? Having cleared those that scanned empty, or were dry at the end of lambing, just under half of what I started with. I noticed those two were dry bagged too, having lost/dumped since lambing.

That said, they are generally doing their (single) lambs ok, clean shedding, and nothing cast or struck (obviously). I can see them being a source of shedding genetics to bring in, but I’m afraid a flock of purebreds like these would have me bankrupt!

As to whether I could do you a good deal on them, you might be surprised to hear I’m still undecided as to whether I should give the ones that lambed another chance. You know me, I do like a challenge.

@CopperBeech and the shedding mafia will no doubt be along shortly to say their performance is down to my poor management, which only seemed to affect that group, but hey ho.

Personally, I am genuinely perplexed as to why they’ve done what they’ve done, when everyone else seems to get on ok with them. Answers on a postcard please…

 

[yellowbelly]

So if the wool board was to fold as some want and predict, who would the assets belong too? Would it be the same scenario as the milk marketing boards, ie. divided out to those who supported it most in it’s final years. @Frank-the-Wool

That is a very good question.

According to their annual report for 2019 ..........

British Wool (formerly British Wool Marketing Board) is owned by approximately 35,000 sheep farmers in the UK.

So how does that work then?

I'm a wool producer and send my wool to BW, so am I one of the 35,000?

If I don't send it this year, do I stop being one of the 35,000?

What if I sold to the Irish for the last 5 years, but this year send it to BW, do I then become one of the 35,000 again?

If I send one sheet a year to BW and 20 sheets a year to the Irish am I still one of the 35,000?

If I'm one of the 35,000 is some of that £10M reserve fund mine?

What happens if/when BW goes bust, (it's lost £2,936,000 in the last 2 years and the reserve fund has dropped by £4,274,000 since 2016, so, how long can it keep going at that rate??) are the 35,000 producers liable for the losses?

So many questions but nobody seems to have any answers. I've spoken to my local and regional representatives and I'm no wiser.

 

[aangus]

Your right of course. However some of us regard wool as the penance we pay to avoid looking at these things all dayView attachment 972901

Was thinking the same when driving past a field yesterday with them in it

 

[Bill dog]

Wool cheque in from last year, and clipping invoice for this year arrived on the same day . It didn’t pay the rent, but got close to paying the clipping!

 

[Agrivator]

That is a very good question.

According to their annual report for 2019 ..........

British Wool (formerly British Wool Marketing Board) is owned by approximately 35,000 sheep farmers in the UK.

So how does that work then?

I'm a wool producer and send my wool to BW, so am I one of the 35,000?

If I don't send it this year, do I stop being one of the 35,000?

What if I sold to the Irish for the last 5 years, but this year send it to BW, do I then become one of the 35,000 again?

If I send one sheet a year to BW and 20 sheets a year to the Irish am I still one of the 35,000?

If I'm one of the 35,000 is some of that £10M reserve fund mine?

What happens if/when BW goes bust, (it's lost £2,936,000 in the last 2 years and the reserve fund has dropped by £4,274,000 since 2016, so, how long can it keep going at that rate??) are the 35,000 producers liable for the losses?

So many questions but nobody seems to have any answers. I've spoken to my local and regional representatives and I'm no wiser.

If BW ceases trading, they will need all of the £4m reserves to pay redundancies and legal fees etc. So we will probably all have to foot the deficit. Apart from the renegades who sell to Paddy.

 

[muleman]

A picture to make certain forum members spit their coffee out....load of fat lambs to the dunbia collection centre .. and to top if off ,some wool away to ireland!

 

[sheepwise]

A picture to make certain forum members spit their coffee out....load of fat lambs to the dunbia collection centre .. and to top if off ,some wool away to ireland!View attachment 973660

In wool board bags!!

 

[muleman]

In wool board bags!!

No....DB wool bags!

 

[sheepwise]

No....DB wool bags!

Must be same manufacturer.

 

[muleman]

Its a breath of fresh air this alternative market,
Just dropped 5 sheets off, weighed it there and then, £370 +vat will be in our account within 7 days.
45ppkg mule and 20 ppkg swale flat rate ,no grading,
Best go and bag the rest of the swale wool up!

 

[Nithsdale]

A picture to make certain forum members spit their coffee out....load of fat lambs to the dunbia collection centre .. and to top if off ,some wool away to ireland!View attachment 973660

Whit happened to sell live (auction!!) and thrive?!?




Can you heard that? Sounds like a forum of pitchforks getting their points sharpened

 

[neilo]

A picture to make certain forum members spit their coffee out....load of fat lambs to the dunbia collection centre .. and to top if off ,some wool away to ireland!View attachment 973660

……and it’s the wrong trailer! ……and Jees, what pickup is it?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

……and it’s the wrong trailer! ……and Jees, what pickup is it?

And you think he’d have taken a picture of the side without a great big dent in the back wing…

 

[yellowbelly]

And you think he’d have taken a picture of the side without a great big dent in the back wing…

Maybe the other side is worse

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Maybe the other side is worse

If it’s owt like my motor the other side doesn’t bare thinking about!!!

 

[tepapa]

Must be same manufacturer.

Same manufacturer of bags for olann wool too.
Had some new WB bags with orange handles any body else had those yet?

 

[yellowbelly]

Same manufacturer of bags for olann wool too.
Had some new WB bags with orange handles any body else had those yet?

No.
I bet they keep them specially for you 400+ a day boys

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Its a breath of fresh air this alternative market,
Just dropped 5 sheets off, weighed it there and then, £370 +vat will be in our account within 7 days.
45ppkg mule and 20 ppkg swale flat rate ,no grading,
Best go and bag the rest of the swale wool up!

I might try mine there this time….where’s the Collection centre around here?

 

[muleman]

I might try mine there this time….where’s the Collection centre around here?

just googled it, looks as tho Harrogate would be your nearest, dont know whether thats any good to you or not.