The organisation comprised 10 000 members, of whom 5 500 were commercial farmers and 4 500 were communal farmers. It was bringing R2 billion into the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through wool exports. R20 million of the budget was allocated towards transformation. The organisation was fully demographically integrated, with commercial and communal farmers from South Africa and Lesotho selling their products as "South African wool" through one sale.