SIR, – Responding to the comments made in last week’s edition of The SF by Frank Langrish of the British Wool Marketing Board, I feel it is quite insulting of him to describe my dealings with Scottish farmers as ‘antics’.

Indeed, that would seem to be a more appropriate way to describe the BWMB’s lure of indicating that it will pay a price of 100p per kg for Cheviot wool and then offering just 18p per kg as an advance payment.
Texacloth has been trading with Scottish farmers for more than 20 years and has a customer base which is growing annually. Our business model is to offer producers a transparent choice and prices with which they may, or may not, avail themselves. This hardly fits with the picture the BWMB is trying to paint.
Going by the wool sale in Bradford this week, which was quite a bit back, Mr Langrish’s predictions are already way off the mark.

Aidan Walsh,
managing director,
Texacloth,
Co Kildare,
Republic of Ireland