Mid States Wool Growers Coop Closing

Mid-States Wool Growers Cooperative, based in Canal Winchester, Ohio, and one of the country’s major wool buyers, is closing its doors later this year, citing the woeful state of the wool markets and rising costs.

“The wool marketing season of 2022 was your cooperative’s worst marketing season since the wool glut of the 1990s. With rising costs and no market for the wool that our producers send in, the difficult decision was made.”

Mid-States sells about 1.5 million pounds of wool each year from its 3,000 members from across the country. It has bought in wool from more than 30 states, as far west as Arizona and New Mexico. The Coop was established in 1918.