A claim that lamb's wool has hit the $4/kg-$5/kg mark may not be as silly as it sounds.
The tongue-in-cheek comment made by independent Whanganui livestock agent and commentator David Cotton actually has more than just an element of truth about it.
The rub is that the lamb has to be sold along with the wool.
"I did make the claim and it sounds like a joke, but yes it does (hit the mark) if you sell your lambs on the store market," Cotton said.
"This month we saw medium small store lambs crack the $5/kg liveweight price and whether they were shorn or woolly did not make much difference to the price paid. A store farmer can shear his lambs before market and get somewhere over $3/kg for the wool and then pay the shearer. But he will be still getting a similar price to the woolly ones weighed on the truck — it's been a no brainer to sell woolly lambs."