Farmers are turning ‘worthless’ woollen fleeces into compost because prices plunged by more than 60% a kilo after export markets closed amid Covid pandemic The value of sheep wool has plummeted in recent years from 87p a kilo to 33p Shepherd Stuart Fletcher, 40, from Stonegate, East Sussex, forced to compost Half of British … Read more
A Welsh farmer torched hundreds of ‘worthless’ sheep fleeces in protest at rock-bottom wool prices after the pandemic saw the market for the natural material sink to ‘diabolical’ lows. He piled up 800 fleeces from newly-shorn sheep and turned them into a funeral pyre saying it was cheaper to destroy them by fire than to go to … Read more
A Welsh farmer torched hundreds of ‘worthless’ sheep fleeces in protest at rock-bottom wool prices after the pandemic saw the market for the natural material sink to ‘diabolical’ lows. He piled up 800 fleeces from newly-shorn sheep and turned them into a funeral pyre saying it was cheaper to destroy them by fire than to go to … Read more
We’ve all been told to wear face masks to reduce the spread of coronavirus, but it turns out the material your mask is made of may affect your risk, a new study suggests. An N95 mask, which filters out nearly all particles both large and small, reduced the odds of contracting COVID-19, the disease caused … Read more
Sheep farmers are forced to dump their fleeces as coronavirus causes the price of wool to plummet Around 10,000 tons of wool are sitting unsold in depots across the UK It is the latest blow to an industry already beset by fears of American imports UK produces nearly 22,000 tons of wool every year from … Read more