What are the main benefits of Staple Length & Strength measurement?

The overall benefit of objective measurements to the wool industry is difficult to accurately quantify. What is certain is that objective measurements have transformed the way the industry operates, and the entire industry is now critically dependent upon the measurements now available.

This transformation has largely been driven by economic benefits made possible by objective measurements.In part the value of measurements is also reflected in the premiums and discounts that are now paid based on these measurements. They enable the market to better determine the value of individual farm lots. In doing so they reduce risk. In the long term, and everybody, including wool growers, benefits from this.

In particular, staple measurements provide wool buyers and processors with a much improved capability to predict processing performance, thereby reducing risk. In turn, the price signals that are consequently generated better inform wool growers of the characteristics of their wool that determine the price they obtain, opening up the opportunity to develop better farm management systems.