wool production
Sheep fiber industry
Wool production is the process of raising sheep and harvesting their fleece for fiber.
The term covers the full cycle from breeding and husbandry through shearing, cleaning, and preparing raw wool for textile manufacture.
Australia and New Zealand dominate global wool production: The drought devastated wool production in the region.
- shearerOne who clips wool
- shearing shedBuilding for clipping sheep
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- sheep farmingRaising ovines commercially
- herdingManaging animal groups
scouring · fleece · alpaca · carding · combing · grazing · livestock · lambing · animal husbandry · spinning · sorting · merino · clipper · biodegradable · renewable resource · yarn · knitting needle · textile industry
- British farmingsheep farming, dairy farming, cattle farming, mixed farming, pig farming
- MongoliaGobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, steppe, Mongols, nomads
- sheep farmingsheep farming, sheep ranching, shepherding, shearing, lambing
- upland farminghefting, shepherding, sheep grazing, lambing, Herdwick sheep
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
agricultural activity type
wool productionmeat production
Raising and processing livestock
leather production · cotton farming · crop cultivation · grain production · fur trapping