Falklands Landholdings General Manager John Ferguson confirmed 835 bales have been sold so far from this year’s FLH wool clip but there are still 1,800 bales of wool left to sell. In his report ...
They spent the day assisting owner Emily Gilbert to spread wool bales on patches of eroded ground to encourage re-growth. Under the expert direction of Emily, and Ben Berntsen from Cape Dolphin ...
Wool uses 367 times more land per bale than cotton, and the chemically intensive process of cleaning shorn wool kills aquatic life and pollutes waterways. “Sheep grazing pastureland may seem innocent ...
I can imagine a pack train of horses carrying wool bales, making their way from a backcountry station in Ruatoria, balancing on a precipitous route only wide enough for a horse and bale.