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Bec^Ust the I'livcr^tt irji.iur prior of 84.4 CtjnfK per pound' crivfd hr producers was ahothe

mohair support; price <>f 70 cents ter pounc made on 1956 marketing year.

no payments will hr

ohair sold during the

rVdiii'tipi from shori cents per h

■n<| of 1 or

rnt per pound

Wool payments and 5

.1 pdred ; pounds of liveweight

frofn j unshorn limb payments will be nude for the adver-* rising promotion, and related market development activities on wool and I."mb. This self-help promotion program funder Section 70S af the National Wool; Act of 19541 is carried On bv the American

Sheep Producers Council. Inc. which was established h" sheep producers and producer organizations for that purpose. The deductions from the payments to finance the program was approved bv producers in a referendum in 1955.

The shorn word payment rate was determined oni the basic of the difference between the average price received bv producers for shorn wool during the 1056 marketing year and the 62-oent per pounds incentive level. The average price producers received for shorn wpol dujring the 1056 marketing year was 44.3' cents per pound as determined by the Agricultural Marketing Service on the basic of prices! reported by producers in their applications for e’we. The wpol incentive rate r.f 40 rwi-cn» is the amount needed to bring the average return for wool un to the incentive level tt( 6? rents. To determine the wool incentive payment for individual e-odorers the rate of 40 percent is applied to the dpi la r return each producer received for Woo! J after paving marketing charges.

The method of making payments on Iambs under fhe 1956 program differs from *he method followed for til,, first year of the program on 195^ marketings. 1 nder the 1956 nropram. e-p-b producer who owned the lamhf for 30 davk or »onre and sold them unshorn i« elinihle for a nnvment. Producers nr feeders wbn hrowriit unshorn Imvhs and l->ter sold them unshorn nr sheared them apd spld the wool will have their Pflvmetots ad'tl itfd dmvnward bv t^e! amount of pavment due on the weight of unftir.ro too.Ks onr.-hlased, TTpder 'h’C

merhrvt original j producers and later breeder orj feeder owners .t.ir„ ;n the navrrtent.: Under the 1055 nronram the entire payment was made to the owner wbo sold lambs for slaughter. ; t I i

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