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D-mulesing Dictionary

Mulesing

A surgical practice on sheep that premium buyers increasingly reject

All termsIntroduced in M14Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
A surgical practice on sheep that premium buyers increasingly reject
How to use it
Avoid mulesing to keep access to premium buyers.
South African benchmark
South African wool growers increasingly market non-mulesed wool to premium buyers (Article 102).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M14-U5
Calculate it
No calculator; the term is applied in the venture plan narrative.
Library sources
LIB-A102, LIB-P-Wool, LIB-P-Mohair
See also
Social compliance
Wool and Mohair: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedWool and Mohair: how the business runsSold bykg of clip, fibre in microns1Breed2Grow fleece3Shear4Class the clip5Auction or brokerZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Wool and Mohair Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M14 Wool and Mohair.