How New Zealand Farmers Sheer 300 Sheep Per Day | Insider Business
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- There are nearly 26 million sheep in New Zealand. Workers at Tom O'Sullivan's farm shear 25,000 of them in less than two weeks. But the cost of shearing the sheep comes dangerously close to wiping out any potential profits.
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The fastest shearers in NZ can strip a grown ewe in less than 60 seconds. I know that doesn't sound impressive, but they're supporting the 60-70kg (135-155 pounds) animal at the same time. I used to spend summer in my uncle's shearing shed, shearing 60k sheep in 12 days. I was a rousey (sheep chaser), because I couldn't shear. I wanted to, but the sheep weigh more than I do!
I've only ever seen this done here in Norway and I've never witnessed a sheep as docile of some of these. That speaks to the quality and technique of the shearer; incredibly impressive.
PETA release a different side of story about sheeps shearing. Maybe this one is nicer because there's media around 🤔👀
@@Agent-ie3uv PETA sensationalise everything for clicks. Go to NZ and watch shearers work in person and you'll understand it is the way it is because the shearers are incredibly experienced and professional.
@@Agent-ie3uv peta is full of shit
PETA says lots of things and the gullible believe. The majority have never set foot inside a shearing shed and seen for themselves.
@@Agent-ie3uvPETA is shaddy
The sheer amount of work they do. It's not baaaaad
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Omg lol
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Those 🐑 look so relaxed and chilled !
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Have you been to sheep farms in CA?
You seriously think those sheep look relaxed? ….have you watched the video? The poor animals are frantic.
I don't see the price of wool decreasing for end users like me. This only means the middle man is getting greedier and the rest of us are getting screwed
not really, with the inflation the *value* of the currency you pay at the end keeps going down, while the cost to transport, process, transport, make it into a product, then transport it again before you buy it all went up, everyone is getting squeezed, but to make a profit, any profit, either you have to pay more or they have to pay less. unfortunately there are fewer buyers then sellers so it is easier to squeeze the producer than the consumer. if they raise the price on the wool blanket you will just buy a synthetic one, but the farmer looses less money if they get SOMETHING from the process, so they have to take what they can get, but as long as they can sell to several brokers they can still get the best price the market will bear... baring government regulations of course.
if the prices get two low the farmers will start thinning out the herds untill the demand is greater than the supply, then it becomes easier to raise prices on the consumer, and the farmer can get a larger cut.
@@vidard9863 I'd like to know who first starts increasing the cost. Someone is definitely gaining from this. Inflation is just a lame excuse for the rich to bleed us of more money. I don't buy into the whole inflation BS. Someone or some people is gaining from bleeding us dry and it sure isn't us, the working class. Tell me, who owns the IMF? Who owns the world bank? Who actually funds the world's bank and who gains the most from inflation? It again isn't us, the working class.
@@chopsticksforlegs it depends.
often it is the government that starts increasing the cost. they dilute the currency in order to buy things. things like votes through welfare. for example a politician who wants a few more votes to win the next election can effectively print more "money" to give old people on welfare. the old people on welfare now buy more food. because no more food was actually produced, yet more money is chasing it either prices go up, or the food must be rationed, which just increases the cost of food with extra steps. now that the food at the store costs more, the people working at the store need raises to buy the same amount of food they bought before, so the store has to charge more. now the truckers need to charge more to pay for the increased cost of food and labor. now the farmer has to pay more for labor and transportation. eventually in a few years prices settle down and everything just has a new higher price.... only nearly every country is doing this nearly every year, so prices never actually settle. meanwhile the politicians who gave out the free money to get votes get reelected, to do it all again. so the "working class" get the benefit of the welfare to buy stuff, but end up paying the most because inflation always hits them the hardest. that is basically just politicians doing it for votes/power, and the more they do it the more effective it becomes, because the people as a whole need more government assistance, and depend on the government more each cycle, making them more likely to vote for politicians who cause inflation.
another group who likes inflation is the oligarchs. inflation is just like a tax, and taxes are like government regulations, they do not affect people already in the industry, because the cost can be passed to the consumers, or squeezed out of labor costs, i.e. lower wages. what inflation, taxes, and government regulations all do is prevent competition from getting into the industry, the less competition you have the more ability you have to set prices and wages. if a customer can only buy from you they will pay what you demand, if a worker can only work for you they will work for whatever you decide to pay them.
the third group, like the IMF use inflation to control the economy, the economy to get political power, and political power to drive whatever changes they want to see in the world.
so yeah, that is why home economics was either taken out of most schools or turned into a cooking class. inflation is a sneaky way to use the people's own money to gain power over the people.
The sheer amount of sheep that is sheered is crazy
I've been to a sheep farm with over 700 sheep and the amount of work there is amazing.
@@tony98discovery 700 is tiny in the scheme of things
Neat
Its funny how suddenly everyone keeps complaining about the huge cost of labor rn. I feel like this is happening to all industries that previously treated their employees poorly with poor, unliveable wages and yet get that surprised pikachu face when no one is ready to work for them. Its a huge trend really and hard not to generalize this
And when you go to buy a wool product that has suddenly jumped in price $50, $100, $200, what will be your reaction then?
that is what inflation does. the wages WERE fair, and little by little they lost to inflation, faster than governments admit. while technology reduces the actual cost of most things, with inflation their prices still go up. thus industry has hiccups where the wages have lost too much ground and labor needs to get a larger cut to buy what their previous wages used to buy.... on the other hand "normal" inflation is a tax that doesn't get politicians voted out of office....
Those sheep look like they're really taken care of. The amount of wool that was shed could possibly help out those in need.
That's easy for someone to say, but are you able to wash the wool, card it, dye it, spin it into yarn and weave it into clothing for a low price? If you can, you will become very rich and you can donate some of your wealth to the needy.
@@Dave_Sisson The process of creating finished wool is really labor intensive
@@tony98discovery Definitely. It's easy for a random person to say "give the surplus to the poor", but in the real world processing and logistics mean that no wool clothing will never be cheap, even if the raw wool was free.
Some poor people don't deserve any donation because they themselves are to be blamed for the poverty.
A 19-year old man from NZ recently set the record for most lambs shawn in a day at 746 🥵
This is why free trade agreements aren't always a good thing. Not when cheap imports destroy your own industries.
And your industries adapt as a result. It's only a bad thing if the competing industry has an unfair advantage due to unfair business practices (government subsidies), but depending on the economist they'll tell you it's not necessarily bad either.
@@taoliu3949 it’s not fair when cheap shit from the third world floods our market.
Do you think China allows western goods in so easily?
@@RAPEDBYBLACKS Why would it matter? Cheap goods is cheap goods, it allows resources to be repurposed for other purposes. Every dollar saved by Americans buying cheaper goods is an additional dollar that can be used to purchase something else.
It's "shear" not "sheer"
Would like to hear more about why the price is so low, and what could be done to fix it? Over-abundance of available wool?
Because of covid international demand has plummetted meaning a higher supply than demand.
Farmers don't wan't to sell their wool for low prices so they store them for a while before they start to yellow.
This leads to as you said an overabundance of available wool with a lowering demand.
Prices should eventually rebound but they don't expect that to happen this year.
over abundance of sheep for sure
Im gonna guess synthetics like polyester are cheaper and have become more popular or cheap fashion
Many different reasons really - as others have said the pandemic didn't help, but wool prices have been decreasing for a while now. Synthetic fibers are cheaper, easier to manufacture and to work. They can also be made to spec in a way wool can't, since it's a natural fibre. The margins in the textile industry are already low enough, and wool ends up being more of a speciality or luxury product sadly.
One of the other problems is that the Wool Board of NZ hasn't done enough to market it as an alternative to synthetics or putting in enough research to keep it relevant competition. You would think in a country like NZ we would all have wool carpet or be using wool insulation instead of fiberglass but this is not the case. (Source: Father has been a sheep shearer for 50 years.)
I wish I have 100% wool clothing and blankets. I hate synthetic plastic fibers it never smells good even after a wash and it keeps bad odors too!
your washing it wrong then...
@@srgarathnor you're*
try cotton, its worlds better than stupid polyester junk but isnt itchy as wool often is. i have sensitive skin so have ti have a cotton sheet between me and the wool blanket.
It's crazy how I can't find quality wool clothes, it's all synthetic. Where could I buy this wool?
3.30 this guy looks like Australian Leg Spinner Adam Zampa 😂
The heat humidity and smell in those sheering sheds is really strong!! How hard they work they don’t get paid enough
Can make $600 a day
You've gotta love a Zoom Broom !
a friend of mine won the Golden Shears .
Wool like cotten is so preferred but synthetic seems to own the markets for many decades. So cotton and wool are luxury. Research seems to say that synthetic does not break down naturally like wool or cotton because synthetic is not from earth so to speak. Anyway, best of luck in your industry.
Hard workers!
this is amazing
just store the wool till it is worth selling right? or does it decay without processing?
@@TheBlawdfire that is true
No, it doesn't go bad, it can stay for hundreds of years, but they need the money and there is no guarantee it will go up in the future it is as likely to go down.
Well if you can't wash it then eventually the wool grease will oxidize, thus turning the fibre yellow and becoming harder to remove.
So raw wool shouldn't be stored long, but washed can stay for decades.
as mentioned not in that form, in addition to yellowing, live animals often have moisture so it can rot, and you need a place to store it, dry, which costs money, while most farmers have very weak cash flows. they could take a loan against their land to finance the storage, but then they loose everything if the market stays too bad for too long.
smart farmers may be able to top grade the wool in some way to keep a fairly small stock of the best material for when prices return.
great, im atttacted to sheep farmers from Australia now
You mean new zealand right? 😂😂
I bet the sheep feel like a million bucks after losing all that bulk/weight
The older ewes have often figured it out.
One “shears” a sheep.
To “sheer” one might require négligée and be refered to as kinky.
oooof, all the nice arms in this video I can't
Reminds me of my sheep farm I had in Minecraft when I was a kid.
yeah. Anything related to China is usually not beneficial. at some point they will raise the price, and then they won't buy anymore so everyone always has inventory, and from there China has an endless supply of cheap prices
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Did you guys make this exact video last year?
That is why This Industry should be a family biz."Not an Industrial biz" Traditionally it's a family biz.1 will clean them ,1 will be food and water provider,1 will be giving them haircut, medical aid and 1 will see the money and wool buisness and management.And practically they will only have that much ships which they can afford labour wise not the amount of land and wish they have!.25 Ships pers person is too much!
2:49 ENGAGE SAFETY SQUINTS!!
Sheering hunched over like that will really damage their lower backs. They should get a more ergonomic set up
i love wool so much
Sooooooo the problem is people not valuing the product for what it’s worth?
Did you hear the new use Kiwis found for sheep?
WOOL....
The obvious solution to oversupply is to start eating the older sheep until supply matches demand.
You, the whole of Europe needs warm wool with the current power bill costs. So predict more wool demand.
The way they tame the sheep
And thus, one of the largest problems for all families. Labourers not making as much as they should for constant labour due to the fact the labour cost out weighs the price of pretry much half of the labour products ever. The future is looking bright lol
$PARA is my fav stock rn
Same situation
They are so cute!
The sheep or the shearers?
I think they pretty much had to switch to milk
its true from a kiwi in nz
who grew up on a orchard and their was a massive sheep farm that i worked at after school as well picking fruits
So is this a quickie for kiwis?
Shaved dude bald. “It’s just a haircut…for the sheep”.
I wonder when deep learning based robot which is affordable is in market
When u remember that sheep were brought by the settlers and have destroyed New Zealand
Exactly this.
No way.. they have helped NZ .
why do they keep reposting content lol
Maybe they are out of ideas? 💡
Im a regular hood dude doing food reviews on my RUclips channel 🥷
I'd save the material and wait for it to skyrocket, if they try to squeeze you just unionize and put a hold on the offer and wait for them to panic.
It’s crazy bcz us consumers are not seeing the prices getting any cheaper
@@TheRedfull they're pulling the same trick the diamond industry does, artificial scarcity for the sake of driving profits.
Nothing beats REAL wool.
Cotton is pretty good and cheap and softer than regular wool. Though merino wool is special
Yeah, we all know how well wool holds in heat and how warm it can get while wearing... i couldnt even begin to imagine how hot they get in the summer with a full coat of wool on... that would be utterly miserable.
From what I know that was actually misinformation, the sheep's wool coat can actually insulate it from heat during summer. A sheep is more likely to suffer from heat stroke after being shorn not before.
why does the wool cames out like this(in pieces) and not all together (like a mantle)?
Probably because they shave them two times a year...and the breed maybe have also something to do with it.
Depends on the quality of the wool shorn. Crossbreed lambs like you see in the video have 6 months of wool of the "strongwool" kind, which tends to point straight up and "fall apart".
Other breeds like the English Dorset will have longer wool hair (staples), and they will tangle just enough to let the whole fleece hang together.
Every breed is different, and even within the same breed there is a lot of variation!
@@kuroimushi9421 still in some places here they 2 shaves 1 light before summer that comes out in pieces and a 2nd one in the end of summer that comes all together(except the belly that is shaved apart and considered low quality, the same goes for when they shave the abdomen pre-birth or the face pre-winter) but as you said here most sheep are corriedale (also from NZ) and the video are rommey but still even with 4 shaves a year their wool is longer than 1 year of the coriedale, so I imagine they shave them like this because they seem to do some processing of the wool meanwhile here they just shake the wool a little and the roll it an to the press it goes
@@gbsklipperi6617 en here the most common breed is corriedale (also a crossbreed from NZ) which has short wool (10-15cm per year) but always stay together when shaven even tho shearing happens when they naturally start to shed on their own. probably is a thing of utilitarianism, in the video the seem to want just the fiber, while here if all the wool isn't in one piece is considered of bad quality (loose wool in rural areas is mostly used as filler to pillows and mattresses (bc is near imposible to spin))(all of that said this is in a mostly rural setting where some people still uses blade shearing)
Shear
so how do they make it in the wild without human intervention?
They died
Some breeds of sheep shed their wool naturally. But most need to be sheered due to how people made them not shep wool by selective breeding
who’s gonna tell them they misspelled shear
What did sheep do when they were wild then?
Sheep farmers have been doing selective breeding for over a century so farmed sheep grow a lot more wool than wild sheep do :)
It's not that fair that wool is that cheap...
No wonder animal products are made in such a rushed way
Shear*
shear
Sounds like we need to focus our purchasing power away from synthetic fabrics.
I don’t understand what the problem is. If a farmer doesn’t like the cost the gangs are charging, then do it yourself. If the farmers sheered the sheep themselves then the cost is essentially gone.
Thats a lot of sheep to sheer alone lol
And just when are they supposed to find the time?
The problem is US. As consumers we should insist on natural fibres ... far better for the planet.
If a drink bottle takes 300 years to break down to horrible microplastics, can you just imagine the nightmare created by acres of synthetic carpet! Eeeek.
It's a specialized job. It takes training, and the farmers are busy just maintaining the farm to have time for it. Plus shearing is basically a harvest, something that happens once or twice a year. The amount of staff needed to run a farm vs the amount needed for a harvest is vastly different. Also having large groups of specialist come in and do it in one or two days greatly reduces the stress on the animals. Basically they don't have the means to just do it themselves. As much as they would like to.
Well, shearing is very demanding. It also takes years to learn, let alone master.
Many farmers are or have been shearers, but not everyone can do it :/
Have you ever worked on a farm or know what it takes to run a farm with a couple hundred sheep? lol
Where are all their refugee employees?
Wool is cheap but if you want to buy a woolen product you pay the quadruple price 😑 something is slightly wrong here...
Wasn't this same exact video posted like a year ago? Man insider really likes reuploads
Yeah it's about time you put the Celcius conversion. Stop pandering to only Americans. The planet is in Celcius, get with it already.
So these sheeps are dependent on human to survive ?
Yes, domestic sheep does not shed their own wool by themselves
How the hell did/do sheep survive in the wild. Without farmers to sheer them .?
The current productive breeds probably would not survive for very long in the wild.
They have been selectively bred to produce wool or meat (or both) over the years.
Wild ones used to shed or moult like other animals do.
I thought New Zealander's didn't sheer their sheep with anyone.
If the sheep need to be sheared twice a year otherwise they die then... how did they survive in the wild?
simple. the sheep of today are created by man they have never lived in the wild
@@sxyrx7 Ah. Cultivated to produce more wool. That makes sense.
^Shear, not sheer.
(Apologies for being a Grammar Nazi, can't help myself.)
This is a shorten reupload
Unlike goats I think sheep's are not stubborn if it was a goat after flipping it up side down it wasn't gonna be easy to shave cos lil man be tryna stand upright
mbaaaaa mbaaaaa
Old video
Business owners whining about the cost of labor is hilarious. Pay yourself less or charge more then
90 degrees is not that hot. South Africa during summer are between 95 and 122 depending on location. Farmers suffers.
This is a reupload
old trimmers increasing temperature that melts ice and reduces cold. they need gillette's new trimmers
Well, it unfortunately sounds like some farmers and their wives and kids will have to learn to sheer their own sheep to cut costs. It’s not easy being a sheep farmer, it’s a very tough job, and it might have to get harder for some of them. They can learn to sheer and start by doing one or two and then as they get better they can start sheering along side their hired sheering team. I’m sure that it would help them squeak by until things get better price wise. They wouldn’t have to hire as many sheering people after a while.
*shear
there are multiple pronunciations
poor sheeps man.
Why don't they just do some selective breeding and develop short haired sheep
Because until now they did selective breeding to develop this long haired sheep, and that took thousands of years. You don't just start selecting sheep and expect to have results in your lifetime or even that of your nephews.
*shear. Give the intern a dictionary
Wtf. I'm sure you can share the profit fairly with your workers. I hate the idea that it's impossible to pay workers slightly more. I wonder what the workers would say? To bad a reporter couldn't ask one what they think when they were standing next to him!
What profit, did you not watch the whole video.
I wonder if those same workers would be happy to share the losses.
@@Stambo59 if the problem was that the price dropped, that's just unfortunate. But I thought most of the video was about a 30% pay increase they must pay to the skilled tradesman that sheer their sheep.
@@mr.wookiesack No one "sheers" the sheep, the people that "shear" the sheep are already some of the best paid farm workers in in NZ.
@@Stambo59 sheep shearing avg pay in nz in 2022 is $44,000 - 65,000 Thats one of the highest paid job in nz! That's crazy. I'll research more about nz.
@@mr.wookiesack When you take into consideration they only work part of the year it's one of the higher paid farm jobs. Plenty of better paying jobs here.
that gangster who have been kicked by the sheep is blessed.
Why the sheep is so sexy without fur?
Not "a nz farmer" he is a "shearer"
Bloody hell
"sheer"???
It's SHEAR. Do better.
Can u guys train and skill Indians.....they wud work at lower cost
Why is nobody talking about how roughly these animals are being treated? Even the most humane shearing at sanctuaries are extremely stressful for a prey animals like sheep, imagine how stressful this is. They literally threw that one poor sheep roughly on the ground and held them down quickly shearing them, not even worried at all about accidentally cutting them. If this was how the groomers cut your dogs hair would you feel bad for the groomer? Would u even pay for the groomer or would you be furious and never let the groomer touch your dog again. This is so heartbreaking. How is no one else seeing this mistreatment. If they were dogs it would be abuse and the groomers would be shut down, rightfully so.
You’re throwing a fit about something that’s irrelevant. It’s literally said that it’s just a haircut if done properly. Stop believing PETA’s nonsense too
@@TryinaDIf sheared by amatuers sheep may get some wounds but it is never as severe as shown by PETA. Still better for environment than synthetic fibres. Microplastics can make sea wildlife so sick
People like aw they look happy. Nah. Imagine it was you. Stuck in a field with 300 other people getting thrown about and robbed of your hair.
Thank you, activists, for costing these people their livelihood and causing the sheep to suffer in the future l.
1. Animal activists don’t want farmers to go bankrupt. Organizations like the Ranchers Advocacy Project, Mercy for Animals, the Vegan Society, Viva, and more all give financial aid and advice, and work with hundreds of animal farmers to help them transition if they wish to.
2. The sheep in this video are suffering. These people are so rough with those poor animals, if this was a dog groomer they would be shut down. They threw that one sheep on the ground, they picked them up and pulled/dragged them, poked them around to go where they’re told, and then forcefully held them down to make them “calm” (freeze out of fear). These are prey animals, when they are held down the way they are when being sheared it is extremely stressful for them and gives them a fight, freeze, or flight response, so it is so important to be patient and gentle with them. Again, if this was a dog groomer it would be shut down for abuse.
*Not to mention the suffering the sheep go and will go through in certain mutilations, auction houses, transport trucks, and slaughterhouses. Sanctuaries spare them that suffering and instead give them a safe place to live out their lives.
3. Animal activists know sheep need to be sheared or they will suffer, but only because they’ve been manipulatively bred to lose their ability to shed. It’s the same excuse they use for mulesing and tail docking. While they may think they are, these people are not thinking in the best interests of the sheep, they are thinking in the best interest of their wallets. The guy even said something like “sheer as much wool off as you can.” That speaks volumes. You should not strip them naked of their wool, it protects them from the sun. Especially if it’s nearing the winter, they should only shear off what’s needed for the animal to be comfortable, not what makes the most money. And they should be putting animal welfare first, not how many sheep you can shear as quickly as possible.
3a. At typical sanctuaries they are shorn where they are most comfortable, usually at the sanctuary, and we coax them to come to us (with kissy noises and treats, not poking or pushing) so the whole thing is built on trust-not grabbing and dragging them to make them cooperate, they instead come to us and trust us to shear them. We shear as much as they are comfortable with. Some stress is inevitable but we are always patient and observant of how the animal is feeling-if at some point it gets too much for them and they wish to leave, then they can. Stark contrast to the way these poor animals are treated in this video. They look so scared and it blows my mind how people don’t see that.
The framing of this is garbage. Always blaming labor for getting a respectable wage.
You shear the sheep. The sheep is shorn. Please stop butchering the English language please people.
Stop torturing sheep!
calm yal asses down, yal been making enough money to go on a family trip, making it sound like yal hella depressed
Looks like torture to sheeps.. not a humane way to do this
Try giva a haircut to your kid instead of sending them to saloon & you will know how pain to do it by yourself.Stop complaining & experience it yourself
I don't like the synthetic crap