Campaign For Wool

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to mention that LambWatch has been featured on the "Campaign For Wool"'s  website!

The Campaign's goal is to promote the British wool industry and is supported by the Prince of Wales!

Our LambWatch feature can be found below!

http://www.campaignforwool.org/index.php/lambwatch/

I've just had a look at the link you put on Dan and I must say what a good article it is and it even has a live webcam pic.  Excellent! :)

A lovely article, although I couldn't get the Live webcam link on my computer.  British Wool still has a reputation in North America as being the best in the world, but I know the industry needs help, and prices are depressed.  Thanks for letting us know! 

By the way, Dan, that's a lovely avatar you have posted.  Put it up on Facebook, too!

Helen 

I wondered how anyone would find the link on the Web site, then I noticed the Lambwatch link in the lower right corner of the home page. A very distinct link. A great article about the farm. How wonderful to have the live cam picture.

I'm starting my own personal campaign to go with natural fibers--wool, cotton--because they're better for the environment and me. I hope this campaign will continue to increase the awareness not only in the UK but around the world.

Stephanie

Congratulations to Lamb Watch. The Campaign for Wool is for everyone to participate in and it is so nice to see more and more wool enthusiasts sign up. It is spreading around the world too. We will see launches in Europe, the USA, the Far East and we have already seen very successful events held in Australia and New Zealand.

I have a vested interest of course, being in the wool trade, but at long last we are able to differentiate wool with all its natural benefits from synthetic fibres against which we should never have had to compete. Wool is unique, better in so many ways and has a value far beyond its price.

So, please grow more and we will try to market it in a manner it deserves.

Best wishes

Martin Curtis

Thankyou Dan!  I pray that the wool industry stops these little Lambs from being sent to market!,  Thanks again for the info,  DannyinjerseyUSA

What many people do not realise is that the wool market is depressed and has been for some years, as the use of synthetic fabrics has taken over.  Very, very little money is paid for a sheep's fleece, and one would have to have a very large flock to be able to to shear and bring in enough money to support and manage a sheep farm.   It would simply not be possible for Marlfield Farm to continue to exist without raising lambs to send to market.  There may be no market for wool at the moment, but there appears to be one for lamb. That's just the economic truth of the matter, whether it offends our sensibilities or not.  People simply have to make a living.  And the lambs themselves could not be clipped for a whole year, so how would a farmer be able to purchase the services of veterinarians, or pay the cost of medicines, or hire shearers, or do all the other things that have to be done on a farm, never mind the cost of living for the farmer and his family.? 

Idealism is all well and good, but it does not pay the bills.  Let us live and let live, each according to his or her own philosophy and perspective on life on this, our home, our planet Earth.