Tag: wool

• Friday, July 5th 2024 - 06:43 UTC

  Brazil has opened its market for Australian mutton and lamb

  

  Despite Mercosur partners with significant flocks, Brazil has reopened its market for Australian mutton and lambt, including sheep meat by-products and edible offal, the Australian Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry announced this week.

• Saturday, October 28th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  BFSAI help with soil erosion and pasture re growth in the Falklands by spreading wool

  

  Members of British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, are helping to combat soil erosion and re-growth of pastures in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Uruguayan minister tells sheep farmers they must target finer wool

  

  “We are facing the worst crisis in sheep farming,” said Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Fernando Mattos, who added that the situation is not limited to Uruguay but to all world farmers who produce cross bred wool with a 24 to 26 microns fiber. “The new reality are finer wools and we must face it”.

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 19:36 UTC

  Only 40% of Falklands wool clip, mainly finer wool, has been sold

  

  Falklands Landholdings General Manager John Ferguson confirmed 835 bales have been sold so far from this year’s FLH wool clip but there are still 1,800 bales of wool left to sell.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Patagonia lawmakers call for an end to export duties on fisheries produce, fruit, lamb and wool

  

  Argentina lawmaker from the province of Chubut, Gustavo Menna has called on the central government to eliminate export duties on fishery products, fruits, ovine meat and wool. The initiative was also drafted by lawmakers Lorena Matzen and Roxana Reyes from the provinces of Rio Negro and Santa Cruz.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Lost sheep found in Australia delivered more than 35 kilograms of wool

  

  Imagine a stray sheep yielding a fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms: it happened in Australia where Baarack was found by rescuers and was shorn for the first time in who knows how many years.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Falklands' government will buy unsold wool clip in support of producers

  

  The Falkland Islands government announced on Wednesday a support program for wool producers and their unsold clip in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. For that purpose, it has authorized the Department of Natural Resources to develop a program to purchase the unsold wool, in a one-time offer, with the price set at March 20.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Uruguay’s central bank confident about commodities’ price prospects

  

  Uruguay’s Central bank sees “few probabilities” of a strong deceleration in emerging economies or a ‘significant’ fall in commodities prices even when lately there has been a drop in the value of grains although still above their historic average.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 07:52 UTC

  Wool prices suffer considerable tumble in September but still above a year ago

  

  Wool prices suffered a considerable tumble during September in line with the bearish market for commodities as a result of global economic uncertainty, although values are still considerably higher than a year ago.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 00:09 UTC

  Uruguay’s textile industry could have to import 20 million kilos of wool

  

  Uruguay’s textile industry is short of wool and could be forced to import up to 20 million kilos, revealed Uruguayan Wool Secretariat (SUL) CEO Gabriel Capurro during the opening of an ovine industry seminar, organized by the country’s Corriedale breeders association.