Fiber Sorting for Maximum Profit: Uniform fiber creates product consistency and is key to developing a North American Fiber Industry. Think beyond first, second, and thirds, beyond yarn, histograms and micron counts. What are your options for your annual harvest. Explore the following:
•**All grades have value and are income opportunities, See and touch examples of products from all grades
•** Histograms vs. Fiber Sorting - Do you use a compass or a topographical map?
Excerpt by Michael Jack AAA Ltd. Central Coast & Hunter NWS Region Fleece Liaison Officer:
Current Seminars:
Seminars are recommended to be presented in the order given above, one leads into the other. Each seminar comes with each own hands on experience.
"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.”
•**Learn how sorting pays for itself and view actual income from farms of all sizes on their sorted fiber.
Seminar includes demonstration of sorting on 1 fleece.
Minimum 5 hr seminar ( prefer one full day to present this seminar.)
Presented by: Carrie Hull and Robyn Kuhl
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
Tying it all together!
