THIS WEEK IN HISTORY A “first” for the U.S. sheep industry was recorded in the pages of WLJ in November, 2005: “For the first time in the U.S., leading retailers are offering consumers a range of apparel, baby blankets, home textiles and socks made from organically grown wool. The fashionable and high quality products are available to consumers online, in stores, and from catalogs just in time for the cooler weather and the holiday shopping season. Sales of organic fiber products grew an average of 22.7 percent, to $85 million in 2003, according to the Organic Trade Association, with respondents estimating 15 percent annual growth through 2008.”
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:04:10 +0000
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