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

[livestock 1]

Is it , is it not the folk selling wool direct so the buyers don’t need bid at auction that’s assisting the demise of the auction ?

You can’t expect to pay an agent good money to return nothing back to his employer

 

[Hilly]

You can’t expect to pay an agent good money to return nothing back to his employer

I get enough back to cover shearing and associated costs on a normal year so I don’t pay an agent for no return .

 

[livestock 1]

I get enough back to cover shearing and associated costs on a normal year so I don’t pay an agent for no return .

Well you are still getting robbed either way if it going where I think it is

 

[Hilly]

Well you are still getting robbed either way if it going where I think it is

Maybe but I will be sorer robbed when bw is gone for sure .

 

[muleman]

They send back what it makes at auction minus costs , every kilo paddy gets privately is a kilo he need not bid on , do you see how auction leads the field with sheep well wools the same.

Dont have to send to paddy...there are other firms in england, bradford even, that pay a fair price for wool.
They bid a price there and then and if you like it you take it and are paid straight away, not the system where we pay the farmer if theres anything left,
A lot of people prefer to do business this way.

 

[Hilly]

Dont have to send to paddy...there are other firms in england, bradford even, that pay a fair price for wool.
They bid a price there and then and if you like it you take it and are paid straight away, not the system where we pay the farmer if theres anything left,
A lot of people prefer to do business this way.

I’m generalising paddy db who ever , all under mines the auction system, i reckon this time next year be some red faces didn’t go to auction .

 

[muleman]

72 pages here
We're going tound and round in circles!
2 or 3 folk on this forum think the wool boards system is good.....the rest of the forum and everyone , and i mean eveyone, out in the real world, at the auction, on farms etc, think the wool board is absolutely hopeless!

 

[livestock 1]

I spoke to one of the paddys and mines going that way. He doesn’t understand why the wb is robbing us.

 

[muleman]

I spoke to one of the paddys and mines going that way. He doesn’t understand why the wb is robbing us.

Same with DB....they arent saying the job is ruined by covid and there is no market for it, they are wanting as much as they can get, what is going on?

 

[livestock 1]

Same with DB....they arent saying the job is ruined by covid and there is no market for it, they are wanting as much as they can get, what is going on?

Bidding is 3x the wool board price too more in some cases like the bfl wool nearer £10 a kilo more

 

[muleman]

Bidding is 3x the wool board price too more in some cases like the bfl wool nearer £10 a kilo more

The fella thats moved my wool rang DB to see if they could take his wool last year.....its gone from there and he's ended up clearing most of cumbria this time, were queuing out onto the road this morning, all the folk that were burning it are sending it, the demand is huge.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

And when members on here slate anyone that dare sell lambs to an abattoir, yet shun the auction system for wool?

And when they complain that the head man at BW earns a decent salary, but will walk past a line of auctioneer's Range Rovers in the mart car park....

And certain store lamb sellers Range Rovers…

 

[Bob]

Is there any other commodity that is traded like the BW model of discouraging private buying and all supply going through an auction system. Potato board, egg board and milk board have all gone

 

[muleman]

Is there any other commodity that is traded like the BW model of discouraging private buying and all supply going through an auction system. Potato board, egg board and milk board have all gone

Theyve had it their own way far too long, this is what happens when the job gets into too few hands, if theyd made sure the farmer got a fair deal they would have been able to keep going.

 

[neilo]

Is there any other commodity that is traded like the BW model of discouraging private buying and all supply going through an auction system. Potato board, egg board and milk board have all gone

Is that a good thing? Many would argue that it wasn’t.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

The wool board is on borrowed time now

 

[LTH]

Is there any other commodity that is traded like the BW model of discouraging private buying and all supply going through an auction system. Potato board, egg board and milk board have all gone

The fact the MMB is still talked about and brought up shows it was a bad thing it went for a lot.

 

[neilo]

BW is a company that takes our wool, then sorts & auctions it on our behalf, returning that auction price to us, minus their operating costs.

Assuming they handle a constant volume of wool, those operating costs remain similar (at 40-50p/kg handled?) regardless of whether it makes 10p or £2/kg at auction.

When the world price is on the floor, as it was for the last year, the difference is obviously more noticeable than if it was making £2 and they returned £1.50/kg.

I can’t see why the world price shouldn’t recover to where it was in the relatively short term, so why f*ck our auctioning system over for a quick quid or two now?

Those of us that sell some lambs deadweight or, heaven forbid, sell on supermarket contracts, are constantly lambasted taking the King’s shilling now, rather than looking at the long term market. Why is wool so different?
It costs me less to support BW in a year, than ever it does to support the auctioneers’ fleets of Range Rovers.

 

[Nithsdale]

Why don't we get rid of all the auction markets?



Clearly we don't need them

 

[livestock 1]

The Irish buyers have been buying wool at auction and the wb have been only returning less than a third of that to the producer
That’s the same wool we sent into them in the bag