{"id":741898,"date":"2026-08-18T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741898\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:56:09","slug":"british-wool-prices-increase-as-global-demand-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741898\/","title":{"rendered":"British wool prices increase as global demand rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth Jones, from British Wool said the price boom came down to supply and demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are less sheep in Wales, less sheep in the UK, producing less wool and if we look at a comparable market like New Zealand, there are less sheep there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They also had a carry-over of wool since Covid \u2013 that&#8217;s cleared in the last two years,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite less wool being available global interest in using the product has seen a resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is in demand worldwide,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;China is an important market for us, we also have a bedding manufacturer in South Korea, and we have some licensees in Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the rising costs in fuel and fertiliser continues to be a challenge for many farmers, making money back from wool comes as a welcome relief to some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Jones, from British Wool said the price boom came down to supply and demand. &#8220;There are less&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}