Beloved sheep again

- The demand for fine wool explodes. The prices of Australian species are at top levels now gone mostly Chinese bid farewell to the synthetic clothes.

' Wool is a luxury product. Now people have more income, they want better quality, 'said Peter Small, shepherd with six thousand copies in the Australian Victoria at the Financial Times.

Analysts see the large incoming orders that the price will rise further. Since wolexplosie not risen as fast as its rates in 1951 as Small recalls.

The seventy million Australian sheep are good top production, farmers like Small attempt, according to the FT immediately make the best of it now attracts demand.

After the fifties were the cheaper synthetic substances on the market. The Australian wool sector dropped them together, as in the Netherlands. The Australian herd halved.

The same Australian sheep remained nevertheless important because they deliver 70% of the total wolvoorraad. The Chinese market accounts for two-thirds of current demand; something more purchases already ensure better prices for the sheep farmer.

Sheep farmers are also doing a lot of promotion of the final product.

That fashion icon Victoria Beckham praises wool and wool Parisian fashion shows prominently used on the catwalk helps somewhat. The growth is now only the very fine wool.