French wool ends in manure
French wool ends in manureReporterre - Dec 18, 2022
Breeders no longer know what to do with the wool, which has become almost unsaleable. The recovery sector has been destructured and relaunching a profitable activity on a large scale is proving complex.
The ram of Greek mythology was adorned with a golden fleece. Today, the wool from sheep in our countryside is not worth more than a few centimes a kilo... when it doesn't end up in manure. “This year, the bales of wool went for 15 cents per kilo. And again, the merchant only takes the best wool, says Rémi, breeder of some 700 ewes in Mornand-en-Forez in the Loire. I had two big sacks of rava wool, a breed with a lot of hair [long, stiff hair, not suited for textiles], he didn't want any. I used it as bedding for my cattle, so it ended up in manure. »
