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Farmers, buyers and carpet makers are warming to an initiative to reinvigorate the struggling wool industry.
A new directive to prefer the use of woollen fibres in government agency buildings “where practical” has the potential to transform the rural sector.
The New Zealand wool industry has been at an all-time low in the last five years, however, this new move could be the boost the industry needs, according to PGG Wrightson North Island wool manager Allan Jones.
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Galloway said farmers have hardly broken even when it came to shearing and it became a matter of health for the animal rather than profitable exercise.
“It costs to shear your sheep, we get less for the wool than what it costs to shear it and if we can increase that to break even for a start, and then start to make a profit on it would be something worthwhile.”
That's from a Wool Growers perspective