In Poland, sheep farmers receive €0.35 per kilogram of wool, while shearing a single sheep costs €3.70.
62% confidence
AgriculturePoland
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All supporting sources are secondary (agricultural news sites); no primary official statistics (Eurostat, GUS/Polish statistics office) on Polish wool purchase prices or shearing service rates were found.
The €3.70 per-sheep shearing cost could not be confirmed by any source; the only Polish source found (undated hobbyist site hodowlaowiec.pl.tl) cites 20–30 PLN (≈€4.6–7) per sheep for flocks of 20+ animals and 100 PLN for a single animal, suggesting the claimed shearing cost may be somewhat understated.
The exchange-rate conversion is implicit: ~1.5 PLN/kg wool ≈ €0.35/kg, and €3.70 ≈ 16 PLN per sheep; the source cenyrolnicze.pl (undated) even reports wool purchase prices below 1 PLN/kg, which would make the €0.35 figure an upper estimate for some fleece qualities.
Sources are recent (2021–2025) but none is an official statistics publication; no source could be dated precisely before the session date of 2026-07-09 for the shearing-cost figure.
Sources
SecondaryAgronews (Poland)Warto zaznaczyć, że produkcja wełny jest obecnie w kryzysie, a jej cena wynosi zaledwie 1,50 zł za kilogram (wool production is currently in crisis and its price is only 1.50 PLN per kilogram).
Secondaryi-rolnik.plPrzykładowo w produkcji wełny działa na wyobraźnię spadek ceny z 4,33 zł/kg w 2010 roku do 1,48 zł/kg w 2021 (the wool price fell from 4.33 PLN/kg in 2010 to 1.48 PLN/kg in 2021). 1.48 PLN/kg ≈ €0.34 at 2021–2025 exchange rates.
Secondarycenyrolnicze.plObecnie za kg runa owczego hodowcy otrzymują nawet mniej niż 1 zł. Nie zwraca to kosztów strzyżenia (currently farmers receive even less than 1 PLN per kg of fleece; this does not cover the cost of shearing).
Tertiaryhodowlaowiec.pl.tlKoszt strzyżenia zależy od ilości sztuk. Przy jednej to 100 zł, a i tak trudno znaleźć kogoś, kto pojedzie do jednej owcy. Od 20 sztuk to 20-30 zł/sztukę (shearing cost depends on the number of animals: 100 PLN for a single sheep, and 20–30 PLN per head from 20 sheep upwards; ≈€4.6–7 per sheep).