Wool

copse

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Mixed Farmer
I know it’s not worth much at the best of times but have heard we are going to get next to nothing for it this year. Chaps we have shearing want to bring own wool wrapper with them as don’t want anyone near them for virus. So will have to pay to have wool wrapped and all other hassle with bagging storing and delivering it thinking would be better off just chucking it in a trailer and burning it.
 

TexelBen

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
I know it’s not worth much at the best of times but have heard we are going to get next to nothing for it this year. Chaps we have shearing want to bring own wool wrapper with them as don’t want anyone near them for virus. So will have to pay to have wool wrapped and all other hassle with bagging storing and delivering it thinking would be better off just chucking it in a trailer and burning it.
Strange times, but burning it will be hard work.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Folks who say "just burn it" have either never tried burning it... or had a hell of a lot of tyres they got rid of at the same time :ROFLMAO:



Trade does seem to be on the slide. Not sure why that would be, though?!..

 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Folks who say "just burn it" have either never tried burning it... or had a hell of a lot of tyres they got rid of at the same time :ROFLMAO:



Trade does seem to be on the slide. Not sure why that would be, though?!..


I don’t suppose the Chinese will be buying much, and folk aren’t buying carpets or new clothes.
It would be amazing if if didn’t drop, not that it had far to go anyway!
 

copse

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Mixed Farmer
1/05/2020
A brief on fleece wool for this coming season:
I think everybody is aware of the critical times we are going through and our wool trade is probably the most affected in the Agri-world.
Farmers can shear their sheep as normal – but concerned for a lack of shearers as 20% of shearers come from Southern Hemisphere – could be an opportunity for the local lads!. They can deliver their wool to their selling points but not to hang around – unload, get your weight docket and speedily leave.
Markets are non-existence at present – Both Bradford scouring plants are closed mainly because the spinners are closed as the carpet manufacturers and other end users are – the chain reaction.
China is still out of the market in the main – as our wools are out of fashion currently. Our wools are 30 to 35micron and can only be spun to a heave count of knitting yarn i.e. Aran or Chunky weights. Up to 5 or 6 years our wools were manufactured into yarns and sent to the provinces for hand knitting into heavy garments and we could sell 1,000’s of tons. Now huge numbers of these folk have moved into centrally heated tower blocks in new cities and no longer require heavy garments – hence light weights made from Merino wool is all the rage and merino prices are at an all-time high.
We, as Laurence Pierce (Wool Merchants) Ltd, having c. 15% of the English fleece wool market, face a never before seen future. We sell our wools 33% forward by 1st of June zero sold to date – balance on the spot market – will there be one?
Our options: we will be in a position to receive wool at our 35 intake points until we run out of space unless the chain is open by then. We will have to speculate on what the price might be but it will be very low. We may have to offer to make a price when we get a price!
Our customers received between 50 & 60p prompt payment last season!
It’s a shame to see the wool business as a waste disposal business. The commodity that built Great Britton over 3 centuries. A few more tweed jackets, Aran sweaters or square meters of carpets is not going to solve the problem – we must think outside the box and come up with new uses to take up large volumes of our wools.


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Vincent Pierce
Laurence Pierce (Wool Merchants) Ltd.
Unit 1 Railway Business Park, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
P/F: +353-404-46410/46452 W:
 
Tim W is right ..... Happy days for Exlanas !! I tried burning a bag with a bit of black wool once .... Never again ! That's why great in the house 'cos we won't fry in a hurry , mmmmm !!!!!
 

hally

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Livestock Farmer
Location
cumbria
Tim W is right ..... Happy days for Exlanas !! I tried burning a bag with a bit of black wool once .... Never again ! That's why great in the house 'cos we won't fry in a hurry , mmmmm !!!!!
Wools like alot of things in farming nowadays whereby everybody seems to make money from except the primary producer. Try buying a wool suit or carpet......then its suddenly a premium product. Time to sit on it perhaps and wait for better times?
 

S J H

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Folks who say "just burn it" have either never tried burning it... or had a hell of a lot of tyres they got rid of at the same time :ROFLMAO:



Trade does seem to be on the slide. Not sure why that would be, though?!..

Smells like death
 

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