Establishment of 'wool hub' recommended in long-awaited feasibility report

"We believe the future is green, the future should be wool-based products, not synthetic."
Establishment of 'wool hub' recommended in long-awaited feasibility report

Wool is a sustainable, organic, renewable natural material that can be used in a wide range of products.

The long-awaited wool feasibility study has made a number of recommendations made to add value to the product from farm to yarn.

Wool, a highly commoditised product, has seen a decline in the selling price over recent decades; meaning that the wool value is “minimal as percentage of typical income from the sale of related lamb meat”, the new report said.

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