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Wool Production

Australia is the world's largest producer of raw wool, growing about 30 percent of the total world supply. Other leading producers are China, New Zealand, Iran, the United Kingdom, Argentina, South Africa, and Uruguay. In 2005 annual U.S. wool production was 16,885 metric tons when weighed before cleaning; most of the wool came from sheep raised in Texas, Wyoming, California, Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota. All the carpet wool and more than one-half of the apparel wool consumed in U.S. mills is imported from other countries.