Tag: wool

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:28 UTC

  Record price for Merino wool in Uruguay: 37.76 US dollars per kilo

  

  A bail of Uruguayan fine, clean wool, 14.4 microns, was sold at a record price of 37.76 a kilo. The ultra fine wool, (uncommon for Uruguay that has a flock mostly of Corriedale), was achieved based on a strategic alliance between the Merino breeders, the country’s Agriculture Research Institute, the textile industry and 51 farmers that signed in for the project.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 03:40 UTC

  Uruguay’s wool clip forecasted to drop 20%: less sheep and extreme weather

  

  Uruguay’s wool clip is forecasted to drop 20% in 2010/11 because of a fall in the number of sheep and extreme weather conditions that will represent a loss of almost a kilo of wool per head, according to Alvaro Fossati, president of a sheep farmers association.