Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: on Nostr: "Wool products are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In 2007, 70 ...

"Wool products are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In 2007, 70 percent of U.S. wool was exported. In 2017, that number dropped to 50 percent, according to the American Sheep Industry Association. Workers like DeLaCruz are increasingly valuable to the U.S. sheep industry, bringing husbandry knowledge from their home country and filling jobs many U.S.-born workers wouldn’t normally take."

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