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Why Sheep don’t need wool

By Lloyd Dunlop 26/12/2014

It is appropriate to look at the state of play of our livestock Industries as we enter a new year 2015.  Again we see that Self replacing flocks of Meat Sheep based on December and November 2014 prices, outperform woolled sheep which outperform cattle and goats on a gross margin analysis, before we look at capital costs.  In short, Sheep don’t need wool because it tends to deny a second annual lambing for meat sheep. Continue reading Why Sheep don’t need wool

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