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wool clip

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wool clip
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) the total amount of wool shorn from a particular flock, or from flocks in a particular region or country, in one year


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It says that despite the economic slump, which has hit the carpet manufacturing industry hard, the higher price of sheep meat on the back of the weak pound helped it to sell this year's wool clip.
The BWMB meeting heard there had been an unprecedented demand at the Board's final wool auctions of the season, resulting in the total clearance of the entire 2008 UK wool clip for the first time in the Board's history.
Tally up the shearing cost plus labor and subtract that from the income on a wool clip, and simple arithmetic will show that many sheep producers today are barely breaking even on their wool operation.
 
 
 
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