05 Mar 2004
Fleece so valuable it's locked in bank vault

Read how they did it - in the "Wooldorf Astoria". I thought our sheep were pampered! Sheesh!

On a serious note, however, this does say something about animal husbandry that's rather important, and often overlooked in today's factory-style feedlot agriculture. The better you treat your animals, the better your production quality. Stress does make a difference in livestock handling.

Two Australian sheep farmers have produced the world's finest wool, a mere 11.9 microns thick or about one-fifth the diameter of human hair, with a bale of the super fine wool now under armed guard inside a bank vault.

(link) [CNN]

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