One farmer’s practice of burning the wool shaved off her sheep has churned up “shear” madness, as media outlets like the BBC have reported she did so to protest ultra-low wool prices paid out to ...

Learn about small-scale wool processing and how to process raw wool and fleece by caring for and storing it correctly. Once you become a shepherd for sheep, goats, or other fiber animals, you’ll have ...

It was once the fabric of choice for millions but will wool survive among a world of synthetic offerings? Farmers and experts focused on the fibre believe it can flourish with a little help. A ...

Much of Montana’s wool still leaves the state before it is ever turned into yarn, fabric, or finished products.

Farmers are burning hundreds of sheep fleeces after complaining about the prices offered by British Wool. British Wool, formerly British Wool Marketing Board, which has 35,000 farmer members - is the ...

Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...

The decline of the wool industry has seen plenty of people pack up their shears. One of the other casualties has been the number of fleeces entered in competitions at agricultural shows. But while the ...

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A Welsh farmer torched hundreds of 'worthless' sheep fleeces in protest at rock-bottom wool prices after the pandemic saw the market for the natural material sink to 'diabolical' lows. He piled up 800 ...