That’s what I was thinking.
Wool...what will you do with yours...
- Thread starter Northeastfarmer
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You should be cause you seem to know everything that’s worth knowing about the running of the wool board.
Well don't die in a ditch for them.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Why? Because you quote what someone told you that someone else had told them and it's gospel?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
We will all suffer more if there was no BWMB.
An Employee of the wool board who was part of the conversation with the farmer and the buyer from told me himself thank you . Straight from the horses mouth. Not as you seem to see it!!!
How can we suffer more when we are giving it away now, it provides a tiny part of a sheep farms income as it is.
Suffer
I don't want them to disappear, just be Pro active. Marketing board demise doesn't lead to better prices, see milk and potatoes
It’s time the wool board pulled its finger out and do a better job and earn there high wages that our wool awards them . We need the wool board but they need to get there act together and look to new innovations and ways to use wool .
- Location
- Devon
No. But if lambs were less than £30 at market I would get them butchered and sell them myself.
Given how bad for the environment synthetic materials are, a low wool price should make it easy to try and encourage greater use of wool.
I think that BWMB should look at how milk processors approach marketing the commodity they actually buy rather than have for free to see what they can sell it for.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Well step on up and do it!
@Katarina shouldnt have to, a quick look at the accounts show a lot of people are being paid a lot of salary/bonus / pension to do it on her behalf......except they are not.
If wool is merely going to make world commodity price then why do we need these well remunerated professionals ?
By the way I enjoy the annual wool debate as it’s so insignificant to most of our incomes
perhaps the top brass should be on a commission/bonus scheme. Are they?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
So why don't you do that with your wool?
You don't have to give it to the BWMB for them to sell, just like you say you wouldn't give your lambs to the market to sell.
If you're prepared to go to that bother with lamb why not go to that bother with your wool?. Sell the end product yourself...
- Location
- Devon
I might... but I would rather that BWMB did a good job and were successful so that the environment and British farmers were better off.
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Was she having to bid through an 'agent' at the BWMB auctions? ... heard something similar myself. I'll ask our local board member when I see him, he's always happy to explain stuff fair play.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
@Katarina shouldnt have to, a quick look at the accounts show a lot of people are being paid a lot of salary/bonus / pension to do it on her behalf......except they are not.
If wool is merely going to make world commodity price then why do we need these well remunerated professionals ?
By the way I enjoy the annual wool debate as it’s so insignificant to most of our incomes
So it's just a case of bitch and moan they're not doing their job... but suggest that person could get involved and make a difference (if they think it's that easy)
"Oh it's not my job"...?
Only insignificant because of the wool you grow by choice
yes that’s exactly what I was told .
A farmer produces the wool to a high quality then it goes on the the wool board to market it . I’m happy to swap jobs with management and take there wage and have a go if they take on my job and wage .So it's just a case of bitch and moan they're not doing their job... but suggest that person could get involved and make a difference (if they think it's that easy)
"Oh it's not my job"...?
Only insignificant because of the wool you grow by choice
Are you sure your not on the WMB ?