While prices have dropped from the record levels reached last August, they are still about 65 per cent of the value of Merino fleece when compared to the 20-micron indicator. And the demand for ...

With fashion trends in Europe and the US supporting knitwear products — which are made from shorter carding type wool — the appetite for carding wool doesn’t look like slowing down. The carding ...

The sheep have been sheared and the lambs are starting to drop at Parry Bay Sheep Farm in Metchosin. Lamb prices have never been better, but John and Lorraine Buchanan are at a loss when it comes to ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...