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There is or was an injection available like that in Oz
Unfortunately the people who handled this wool also ended up with their hair falling out!!!
There is or was an injection available like that in Oz
I was always told the value was most when the russian army (and others) made their great coats from wool , along with other uniform pre ww2 . The practical nil value of (polluting ) petroleum based clothing is whats doing most damage . It does hurt though to walk into a high street retailer that sells wool based clothing or flooring to see the price, its shameless marketeering
Well that explains it, I must have have inadvertently handled some of that very wool!Unfortunately the people who handled this wool also ended up with their hair falling out!!!
Well that explains it, I must have have inadvertently handled some of that very wool!
If you track the price of wool you will always see that the highest prices were always just before Wars.
Well, we obviously don't want it to get up to the dizzy heights that come pre wars but maybe a bit of 'border tension' somewhere would be handy for a bit of a price riseHappy for it not to rise again in my lifetime then.
At £11+ per kilo of already have fluffy headed romneys! And be picking up wool off the floor and off dead sheep like my uncle did in his childhood. That's an unbelievable difference isn't it.So by 1916 prices , I’d be due approx 14.5 k for my lovely 1.3 tons of Romney wool.
At those sort of prices, I’d be telling @hendrebc to shove his shedders, and I would sell him one of my Romney tup lambs !
My great grandfather kept his wool for six years in the depression years. Small talk perhaps but that was 15000 fleeces. He kept 2500 sheep mainly whethers on the hill for six years and He grew the crop which was wool not meat.sold the lot in 1922 and bought 300 acres .whether s had increased in value from 50p in value to 2 pound after WW1 .dairies and bank books here to prove it. Give talks on the change in Farming over 100 years as have detailed written daily info to prove it will write a book one day when I have time. 13 kids and no subsidy and had plenty of moneyThere was a farmer locally, in my great grandfathers day, who used to keep his wool back for a couple of years, cash it in and buy a farm, his decendants would still be some of the biggest landowners in these parts.
Well, we obviously don't want it to get up to the dizzy heights that come pre wars but maybe a bit of 'border tension' somewhere would be handy for a bit of a price rise
Sadly your right, just as inevitably any organisation with a guaranteed income stream will abuse it and allocate themselves higher wages and better conditions to the detriment of the businesses supplying them. I can be seen throughout agriculture such as the AHDB, is it too much to ask these outfits to supply value for money?I really don't get everyone's issue with the wool board. Sell direct to the Irish and watch them screw the price down once they have enough market share. Tried and tested!
Other options include breeding sheep with wool that has a value, or processing it yourself and making something high value.
Not a lot different to meat when you get down to it!
Do they not? I Chuck my wool in a bag, someone picks it up and money arrives in my account.Sadly your right, just as inevitably any organisation with a guaranteed income stream will abuse it and allocate themselves higher wages and better conditions to the detriment of the businesses supplying them. I can be seen throughout agriculture such as the AHDB, is it too much to ask these outfits to supply value for money?
Ok at what?Are Texacloth ok!?
If you think paying some of the top guys over £100k just to pick up your wool and sell it at auction is value for money then fair enough , many do not share your view, myself included.Do they not? I Chuck my wool in a bag, someone picks it up and money arrives in my account.
Wools been worthless for as long as I've been farming, if the wool cheque is that much of a difference then you've probably built your business wrong.
As for the ahdb they have added more value to my business than I can on my own. But hey I'm not an expert on international trade
Financially?Ok at what?
I do agree with this sentiment (but don't think it has much to do with the price of wool)Sadly your right, just as inevitably any organisation with a guaranteed income stream will abuse it and allocate themselves higher wages and better conditions to the detriment of the businesses supplying them. I can be seen throughout agriculture such as the AHDB, is it too much to ask these outfits to supply value for money?
As I said before feel free to sell direct to the Irish and watch them screw the price once the board is gone, the majority of farmers aren't in any position to put wool up for auction themselves.If you think paying some of the top guys over £100k just to pick up your wool and sell it at auction is value for money then fair enough , many do not share your view, myself included.
I know the AHDB is a bit of a tangent but on their watch we have total dominance of the abattoir sector by a few players who are dictating one of the lowest meat prices in Europe whilst they waste our money sending us leaflets about controlling foot rot ( information which is all freely available on the internet) whilst their own overheads have vastly increased ahead of inflation.
As an industry we need a root and branch reform of our key organisations, post subsidy they will not simply be enough money to go around. Any not giving value for money should lose the right to exist, as what happens in any other industry.