Fabulous Fibre: reducing micron count of finer wool quality UK sheep breeds to increase productivity, sustainability and resilience in the wool industry.

Fabulous Fibre：减少英国绵羊品种更细羊毛的微米数，以提高羊毛行业的生产力、可持续性和弹性。

• 批准号: 10085253
• 金额: $ 5.74万
• 依托单位: LANGRISH FARMERS
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10085253
• 关键词: Fabulous; Fibre; reducing; micron; count

**Langrish Farmers**, passionate about improving the quality and value of wool, will work with key industry players National Sheep Association, British Wool, Wool Testing Authority Europe (WTAE) and Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL), to benchmark wool quality at an individual sheep level in an English Romney sheep flock. An attention to wool quality in terms of fibre diameter will look to increase returns to commercial farmers.By validating an on-farm wool testing device and building guidelines on improving wool quality through benchmarking, selection and breeding, the **Fabulous Fibre** project aims to help Langrish Farmers demonstrate the ability to **progress towards net zero** by using wool as a natural renewable fibre that is an alternative to synthetics**, increasing business resilience, improving productivity** and potentially **diversifying** sheep farming back to its multifunctional nature. This would change current farmer attitude towards wool as a waste product. For the industry, the product aims to make the UK wool sector more **resilient** and reduce reliance on imports in the wool industry.Wool quality is measured by testing the wool fibre to a micron value. The lower the micron value the higher the quality and the greater the return value. There is currently no on-farm technology capable of testing individual fleeces with real-time results. This project will work with one large Romney flock, to validate a handheld, portable device allowing greater control of fleeces sent for testing (and validation) through WTAE. Romney sheep have been selected due to their average micron levels hovering around the premium threshold.Measurements taken from the flock will be used to identify high-quality wool animals at an individual level and enable selection and breeding programmes for subsequent years, with wool quality a key focus. In addition, the lambs born in 2024 from the wool quality assessed ewes will have their fleeces tested, giving an indication of the heritability of wool quality. It will also enable Langrish Farmers to select breeding replacements both on conformation, carcase traits and wool quality for subsequent breeding seasons, identifying and limiting any trade-offs between traits.The project will also improve the understanding and value of wool testing on farm and demonstrate easy steps to improve wool values across the sector. In addition, it will provide practical lessons and opportunities for any sheep farm to improve wool quality and value.

**Langrish Farmers** 热衷于提高羊毛的质量和价值，将与主要行业参与者国家绵羊协会、英国羊毛、欧洲羊毛测试局 (WTAE) 和畜牧业卓越创新中心 (CIEL) 合作，以制定基准英国罗姆尼羊群中单只羊的羊毛质量。对纤维直径方面羊毛质量的关注将有望增加商业农民的回报。通过验证农场羊毛测试设备并制定通过基准测试、选择和育种提高羊毛质量的指南，**Fabulous Fibre** 项目旨在帮助 Langrish 农民展示通过使用羊毛作为天然可再生纤维（合成纤维的替代品）**实现净零排放**的能力，提高业务弹性，提高生产力**并有可能实现羊的**多样化**农业回归其多功能本质。这将改变目前农民对羊毛作为废品的态度。对于行业而言，该产品旨在使英国羊毛行业更具**弹性**，并减少羊毛行业对进口的依赖。羊毛质量是通过测试羊毛纤维至微米值来测量的。微米值越低，质量越高，回报价值越大。目前还没有农场技术能够对单只羊毛进行实时检测。该项目将与一大群罗姆尼群体合作，验证手持式便携式设备，从而更好地控制通过 WTAE 发送用于测试（和验证）的羊毛。罗姆尼羊因其平均微米水平徘徊在优质阈值附近而被选中。对羊群进行的测量将用于在个体水平上识别高质量的羊毛动物，并为随后几年的选择和育种计划提供支持，羊毛质量将成为可能。关键焦点。此外，对2024年羊毛质量评估母羊产下的羔羊进​​行羊毛检测，以了解羊毛质量的遗传性。它还将使 Langrish 农民能够在随后的繁殖季节根据形态、胴体性状和羊毛质量选择育种替代品，识别和限制性状之间的任何权衡。该项目还将提高对农场羊毛测试的理解和价值，并证明提高整个行业羊毛价值的简单步骤。此外，它还将为任何养羊场提供实用的经验教训和机会，以提高羊毛质量和价值。