Sheep wool can be blond, red, beige, brown, silver or gray. This wool is often used for weaving and by fibre industry artists. Sheep milk is used for yogurt or for cheeses such as Roquefort, Feta or Ricotta. A relatively new development in BC is the use of sheep for weed control in replanted forest clearcuts. Many of the sheep for the large flocks needed for this are obtained from Alberta.
Fresh lamb is slaughtered, butchered and packaged for sale.
Wool fleece are collected on farms and marketed through the BC Wool Commission to the Canadian Wool Growers' Cooperative. The wool is sent to Lethbridge, Alberta, where the co-op has a processing facility. There is some custom carding of wool carried out at a plant at Williams Lake. BC imports about 375,000kg of sheep and lamb's meat each year. There is an opportunity to replace this imported meat with locally grown production.