This spring, Capital Press got a question from a reader who raises Rambouillet and Merino sheep in Eastern Oregon: “Why are wool prices so low?”
A bag of Coopworth wool.
The answer is both simple and complex. The simple answer is the global wool market faces oversupply and sagging demand.
Maria Rooney with one of her favorite ewes.
Brent Roeder shears a sheep.
Lisa Surber on a sheep farm.
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Peter Orwick, executive director of the American Wool Council.
Left to right: Shetland, Romney and Suffolk wool.
Bags of wool in a Pendleton Woolen Mills warehouse.
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Wool pellets, which Wild Valley Farms sells as fertilizer.
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