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Article: Wool clip returns unhurt by bad weather
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 17, 2007
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WOOL arriving at the British Wool Marketing Board's depots in
Scotland is well up to schedule for the time of year.
Despite the difficult summer weather, wool produced from flocks in
the Highlands and Islands has been arriving steadily at the boards'
most northerly depot at Evanton, near Alness in Sutherland.
Frank Langrish, the chairman of the BWMB, earlier this week
visited Evanton for the first time. He said: "We take not only in
wool from some of the UK's most remote farms but also from large
numbers of small island flocks run by crofters."
As of this week 758,000kg had been delivered to the depot, which
is the largest facility operated by the BWMB. In a normal year it
handles at ...