This depends on the amount and quality of the fibre you supply to our pool.

Our buy line is “We collect, we sell, we pay, guaranteed”. Pacific Alpacas has not missed a single payout since it started operations.

See above process cycle or view the diagram here. Typically mid to late September each year, subject to the vagaries of the weather and its effect on shearing.

See above process cycle or view the diagram here. Typically, May 31st each year, subject to the vagaries of the weather and its effect on shearing.

See above process cycle or view the diagram here.

Pacific Alpacas have several Collection Points situated at strategic locations throughout the country. Please refer to the list and map.

Office hours, plus Saturday mornings.

You can download a form from this website which lists the information we need.  As an absolute minimum we need full name and physical address (for collection purposes), your bank account details and GST number (if applicable) and contact details. Not providing the information we require can delay payout.

PAG = Pacific Alpacas Grower. It is simply an account number we allocate every grower so facilitate identification and avoid any confusion in labelling bags etc.

Our first season was 2010/11.

36,957k

Obviously it varies year to year, for the 2017/18 season 431 growers contributed to the pool.

Yes, Pacific Alpacas accepts all colours of huacaya and suri.

For the sake of your animals’ welfare, so they do not suffer from heat exhaustion in our hot summers, you should shear once per year, preferably in spring.

50mm.

No, but if you don’t then you will be paid as if the fibre you provided was all D-grade (greater than 28 microns) and suitable only for duvets.

Yes, but there is a charge for us to do this.

No, we will take as little as one fleece.

Yes, but we pay a premium to growers that provide us ‘all’ their fibre as opposed to just their NBL.

See above process cycle or view the diagram here.

No, but since we are a pool dedicated to maximising the return to New Zealand growers we can think of no logical reason you would want to withhold this information.

No.

It is Pacific Alpacas’ policy to offer interim payout up to the grower credit amount to growers who contribute over 500kg of fibre; with adjustment at the end of the season of any additional amount due. If applicable and you would like to accept this offer, you will be asked to issue us an invoice for grower credit amount and it will be paid within 60 days.     

500kg.

No.

We don’t have members, simply contributing growers and there is no cost to being a contributing grower.

No.

Absolutely. As a participating grower you are entitled to “Growers Price” discount on all Pacific Alpacas range of alpaca duvet inners and blankets/throws. Growers Price is significantly less than wholesale and we encourage growers to take advantage of this incentive to purchase and on-sell our products, thereby significantly leveraging the income from their fibre.

Grower Credit is simply the amount of credit Pacific Alpacas is prepared to extend to any contributing grower towards the purchase of our products by that grower. It represents our comfortable exposure based in the ‘security’ provided through fibre supplied. It varies year to year but is simply the amount of fibre your provide multiplied by an amount that we estimate will be our MINIMUM payout per kg for the lowest grade of fibre.

Any grower can offer to be a Collection Point. Without exception, Collection Points are “just” growers, like yourselves, who have put their hands-up the help the pool by opening up their property to accept fibre on behalf of the Pacifica Alpacas Fibre Pool, thereby reducing the miles our drivers have to cover to collect all your fibre; with associated cost savings for us all. If we don’t have a Collection Point in your vicinity already you are more than welcome to ‘put your hand up ‘  – please do.

Yes. We pay a fixed amount per kg to Collection Points for fibre that we collection from them.

Yes. If you press your fibre onto bales of 120kg or more we an amount per kg for the pressing. This also applies for Collection Points that press fibre prior to collection.

No. We do not accept fibre in anything other than Pacific Alpacas’ fibre bags, fadges, bales or BINs.

Simply call or email and we will send some out to you.

No, they are completely free and are sent out freight free.

Yes. They are printed both sides with the information we need for tracking purpose. We also turn them inside-out after two years; so theoretically they are useable for 4-years.

Approximately 4 or 5.

No it isn’t. All you need to do is complete a Fibre Consignment Receipt “FCR” (most of which we complete for you) and a bag weights sheet. That’s it.

After it is collected it is shipped to Pacific Alpacas’ sorting facility in Cromwell, Central Otago where it is weighed, sorted by colour, graded and pressed into bales of similar colours/grades. These bales are then sent to the scouring plant. The scoured fibre is then sold or used by Pacific Alpacas to manufacture its range of products.

Absolutely, we encourage you to take part in our Growers Price programme and thereby earn additional income buying and on-selling our products.

Participating growers buy at less than wholesale price. We have a dedicated ‘Growers Price’ that is significantly less than our standard wholesale price.

Only if you want to be paid for your fibre. So, yes, we need your bank account number. There is space on the FCR for you to provide this.

If you are registered for GST we do need your GST number or your payout will not include GST.

Any of our staff can assist you but in the first instance please contact [email protected] or call us on 021-762 051.

Pacific Alpacas is a fibre pool. It is ‘New Zealand’s fibre pool’. It is your fibre pool and we run it lean and mean so we can return the maximum possible payout to growers!

Not directly. All fibre sent to Pacific Alpacas is scoured at Canterbury Wool Scourers in Timaru currently.

No.

No.

No.

No, please don’t. We are hoping to be able to re-use the bags for at least two years, so once we have emptied them and recorded the information off them plus their weight etc. we will cross out the completed side and re-issue to bags.

We find that bale clips work best, as shown here. We also have this helpful video here. Unless the bag is really full you will probably find that one clip is enough per bag. If you don’t have any bale clips we can send you some or you can easily buy them from places like RD1.

The aim of the bags and bale clips is to streamline our processes and minimise time lost doing unproductive things like trying to get a bag open that has been secured with the mother of all granny knots!

When our driver calls to collect your fibre please make sure he leaves you bags for next year; the policy is to replace the number of bags he collects and he will also leave you bale clips if you ask him. One per bag. We supply these free as they make our job easier.

The aim of the bags and bale clips is to streamline our processes and minimise time lost doing unproductive things like trying to get a bag open that has been secured with the mother of all granny knots!

When our driver calls to collect your fibre please make sure he leaves you bags for next year; the policy is to replace the number of bags he collects and he will also leave you bale clips if you ask him. One per bag. We supply these free as they make our job easier.