Much more wool
While wooi prices are very much lower so far this season, sheep are generally clipping a lot more wool.
The spokesman for one firm of brokers said this week that in Mid and North Canterbury the general trend was for average wool weights per head to be up by 25 to 30 per cent, but on many properties fewer ewes were now being carried.
However in some instances there have also been spectacular recoveries in the total amount of wool produced. One North Canterbury property has recorded an extraordinary recovery with the clip up from 8400 kilograms last year to 13,108 kilograms this season — a gain of 56 per cent Last season the property was very hard hit by drought.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33626, 30 August 1974, Page 7
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