Author:
Paul Vallely

Date of Publication:
unknown

Publication:
AAFT

Excerpt:
Since about 2008, the Australian alpaca fleece market has moved from a single desk marketing system dominated by the Australian Alpaca Fleece Ltd, to competitive supply networks incorporating a number of fleece collection and buying entities. The entities range from producer based collectives to commercial businesses. Further, these entities are able to adopt any one, or a combination of fleece collection protocols or standards that have been developed over recent years to provide guidance on how to class alpaca fleeces into commercially driven consignment lines.

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