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The rise in alpaca farms

In this week’s Friday Feature, Stephen Noble turns his eye to the growing interest in alpaca farming in the North East.

“Even on a sunny day the wind is predictably bitter, a mood and sentiment matched by the recently sheered alpacas at a smallholding based in Hexham.

The rise in Alpaca farms in the country has seen the herds accumulate more than 20,000 alpacas, and one company is trying to use this steady rise to take alpaca fibre to a different UK market…“

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