|
|
Article: Returns on wool face 30% clipping
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- December 17, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1998 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
SHEEP farmers should expect next year's wool cheque to be down
more than 30 per cent on this year's already low level, the managing
director of the British Wool Marketing Board said yesterday.
This year's average price for wool is about 62p per kilogramme.
Only half of the UK's 49 million kilogramme clip has been sold so
far
and, with a world glut already in force, Ian Hartley said that next
season's average price would probably be about 46p.
The price of Cheviot and halfbred fleeces would be more than 50p
per kilogramme and Blackface fleeces about 43p. But wool from some
breeds, such as Swaledale, would be lucky to average 20p.
At a press briefing in Edinburgh, Mr Hartley said: "With almost ...