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Coarse BroadsCoarse Broads driving and exciting goal is to promote and develop a fiber based industry that is creating products using all grades of alpaca, thereby maximizing North American Fiber for North American Alpaca Producers. Foremost on our agenda is educating North American Alpaca Producers about profit opportunities, uses for fiber, and the expanding and viable American market that is available today. Seminars AvailableFiber Sorting for Maxium Profit: Uniform fiber creates product consistency and is key to developing a North American Fiber Industry. Think beyond yarn, think beyond first, second, and thirds. Think beyond histograms and micron counts. What are your options for your annual harvest. Explore the following: There are many grades of fiber **All grades have value and are income opportunities **If a histogram says 17 microns, it doesn't necessarily mean the whole alpaca is 17 microns. The Myths of Fleece and AAFL “Firstly, it appears that the myth of using a mid-side sample as a guide to the commercial value of alpaca fleece is still considered by some breeders to be a good guide to the value of their fleece. Let us be quite clear about this; the mid-side sample is useful as a breeding guide, provided samples are always taken from the same place and used in comparisons between animals. However, the mid-side sample is of no use whatsoever as a guide to the commercial value of a fleece.” **A uniform alpaca fleece is vital to ease of processing, keeping costs down, and a higher profit margin. It's not what you make, it's what you keep: Sustainable agriculture. Ultimately isn't that every ones goal? It is easy to love spending time with the alpacas, but isn't the icing on the cake when we can utilize the gift of fiber these animals give each year to pay their own way? It's not what you make, it's what you keep covers the ways to set up your farm, run your farm, and keep costs down and income up. 3 hr seminar. Presented by: Carrie Hull and Robyn Kuhl A good yarn: Yarn is the base of all textiles. As a breeder of fiber producing animals, alpaca breeders need to understand how what you do affects this basic building block. A Good Yarn walks you thru how yarns are constructed, why they are constructed the way they are and the affect fiber health and fiber condition has on the yarns produced. 3 hr seminar. Presented by: Carrie Hull and Robyn Kuhl Coarse
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Robyn Kuhl 208-610-5969 alpaca@fromtheheartranch.com
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Carrie Hull 208-290-1383 info@timberbasin.com
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