Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Are they surprised…
Wool...what will you do with yours...
- Thread starter Northeastfarmer
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- N.Lincs
It will depend how they perform.
I get all the stuff about 'the WB is the only way to make sure there's not an Irish monopoly where they'll pay us whatever they can get away with', etc, etc but there's only so much producers will take (just look at how many have jumped ship already).
Could have had 40p, cash in hand last year as opposed to the 12p, average, 12 mths later, in the return above.
Could have had 45p now as opposed to ???? this time next year, so I'm prepared to wait and see if all their supporters are right in that it will be much better next year.
If some of the comments above (backed up, IMHO, by the tone of their letters and texts) is anything to go by, they're noticing that they're not getting as much wool.
I normally deliver to our nearest grading depot (Stamford) but they've shut that this year otherwise it would have been interesting to see how busy they were, in relation to other years.
Less wool = higher cost per kg to grade etc and therefore less back to us. I think they've got themselves into a vicious circle but our local and regional WB representatives assure me that they are happy with the situation. Hence, I'm prepared to wait and see.
This time next year, Rodney
- Location
- Yorkshire
But you don't get the payment released till you take next year's do you?It will depend how they perform.
I get all the stuff about 'the WB is the only way to make sure there's not an Irish monopoly where they'll pay us whatever they can get away with', etc, etc but there's only so much producers will take (just look at how many have jumped ship already).
Could have had 40p, cash in hand last year as opposed to the 12p, average, 12 mths later, in the return above.
Could have had 45p now as opposed to ???? this time next year, so I'm prepared to wait and see if all their supporters are right in that it will be much better next year.
If some of the comments above (backed up, IMHO, by the tone of their letters and texts) is anything to go by, they're noticing that they're not getting as much wool.
I normally deliver to our nearest grading depot (Stamford) but they've shut that this year otherwise it would have been interesting to see how busy they were, in relation to other years.
Less wool = higher cost per kg to grade etc and therefore less back to us. I think they've got themselves into a vicious circle but our local and regional WB representatives assure me that they are happy with the situation. Hence, I'm prepared to wait and see.
This time next year, Rodney
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
They will email you a grading sheet for this year’s wool once they have it, and then release an achieved price schedule for 2021 in the spring. Two minutes with a calculator and you know what you’re due to get.
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Well my wool will be going to DB wools this year for the first time, it’s gone to the wool board since we started farming but not this time….I’ve just rang and booked it in for next week
livestock 1
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Good they are brilliant to deal with
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Tubbylew
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- Herefordshire
I was goin to chuck mine under the cattle, but the old man burnt it whilst I was at work, wouldn't be so bad but he tushed it up the road with the muck grab and now there's wool feckin everywhere.
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- N.Lincs
What @Highland Mule said above.
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- Lancashire
muleman
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Two minutes on this forum and you know what your gonna get!
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
f**k all?
Tubbylew
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- Herefordshire
Keep goin fellas, nearly 90 pages will make 100?
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
At some point it will have a value , i really cant see a environmentally friendly product like wool being valueless for long , not saying i would breed for it , but low values encourage entrepreneurial business to look a bit more closely at whats available, that can only get more important as time goes on and primark gets put under the spotlight which its starting to be in last 12 monthsWhich highlights the point that there are 3 choices
1) Select and improve your wool so that you get a decent return from it
2) Breed the wool off your sheep
3) Keep on whinging about how you don't get paid enough for the a crap product that you can't be arsed to do anything about
muleman
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Not very much!
Not very much!
muleman
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It will be a good trade again before some folk'll admit its a bad un!
I agree but i've been thinking this for the last 20 years and it hasn't happened yet
When was the last time your wool cheque covered all the COP?
It needs to be £/kg not p/kg before you start covering costs and thinking about profit
I think if you are going to have it then you have to breed for it ---just like any other trait, select and improve slowly over time towards producing something the market wants and will pay for
muleman
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You will be going the wrong way fast if you start breeding for wool.....dont think many of us expect to get rich off the wool but its a sad state of affairs if they cant give us a pound a ewe, when they start billing us ,or saying as a goodwill gesture they will overlook the charges , enough is enough!
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- Montgomeryshire
It will depend how they perform.
I get all the stuff about 'the WB is the only way to make sure there's not an Irish monopoly where they'll pay us whatever they can get away with', etc, etc but there's only so much producers will take (just look at how many have jumped ship already).
Could have had 40p, cash in hand last year as opposed to the 12p, average, 12 mths later, in the return above.
Could have had 45p now as opposed to ???? this time next year, so I'm prepared to wait and see if all their supporters are right in that it will be much better next year.
If some of the comments above (backed up, IMHO, by the tone of their letters and texts) is anything to go by, they're noticing that they're not getting as much wool.
I normally deliver to our nearest grading depot (Stamford) but they've shut that this year otherwise it would have been interesting to see how busy they were, in relation to other years.
Less wool = higher cost per kg to grade etc and therefore less back to us. I think they've got themselves into a vicious circle but our local and regional WB representatives assure me that they are happy with the situation. Hence, I'm prepared to wait and see.
This time next year, Rodney
Using your quoted figures, your 950kg of wool would have returned you £266 more if you’d sold to the privateers last year, rather than BW. That, in a year when the price is on the floor and BW’s cost can only be marginally reduced.
Would that £266 really make much difference to your life, given that everyone doing so would mean the end of the auction system for wool, and put us all into the hands of a few private buyers?
Those that chose to sell lambs deadweight get criticised on here, even though they receive that premium on every trailer load, not a whole year’s production.
Personally, I’m happy to stand that for the long term benefit that the auction system provides. £266 isn’t enough to make me get excited I’m afraid.
It was already broken.
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- South Norfolk
I have thought long and hard on this subject. But as a small time grazier I'm not sure I can leave rubbed off wool hanging on someone else's stockfence.