Sweden has become the latest country in Europe to roll out a grading standard to measure the quality of sheep wool.

Typically, sheep are shorn once a year. This means that the wool is clipped from the animal, producing a bundle of wool that is called a fleece. Several fleeces are bundled together, bagged, and then ...

AN IRVINE factory which was once the wool grading centre for more than 4000 Scottish sheep farmers is to close with the loss of nine jobs. The British Wool Marketing Board blame “very high business ...

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HETTINGER, N.D. - If left unshorn, a sheep's wool will simply never stop growing, until the animal can no longer move. To prevent the countryside from being littered with indolent, bleating balls of ...

Wool and royalty are undergoing something of a love-in at present as prospects for the natural fibre on which Bradford’s original fortunes were built look better than they have for many years. The ...