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Sheep Producers
Approve Wool Prog.
Sheep producers by a substantial margin have voted to continue deductions from CCC wool program payments to finance the promotion of wool, according to preliminary returns from a mail referendum held June 7 through 18, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced today.
About 87.0 percent of the producers, owning 87.2 percent of the sheep represented by those voting in the referendum, favored the advertising and other market development activities which would be continued under a proposed new agreement between the Secretary of Agriculture and the American Sheep Producers Council, Inc. Sheep producers have approved the wool and lamb promotion program referendums since 1954. Approval by either twothirds of the producers voting or by producers of two-thirds of the volume of production represented in the referendum is required for the agreement to become effective.
Preliminary results in this year’s balloting show 60,020 producers voted for the new agreement and 8,949 producers voted against it. Those favoring the agreement owned 11,091,874 sheep and those opposed to the agreement owned 1,631,414. The proposed agreement authorizes continued deductions from payments made under the National Wool Act on wool and unshorn lambs marketed during the three years, 1971 through 1973. Deductions are authorized at rates up to lVfe cents a pound on shorn wool and 7 Vi cents a hundredweight on unshorn lambs. These are the rates at which payment deductions have been made for the past 5 year. The Council’s expenditures for wool and lamb promotion during the year ended June 30, 1970, were about $3.4 million and its budget for the current year is $3.2 million. The Council’s wool promotion is on a national basis in cooperation with other agencies of the industry. The promotion activities include advertising, merchandising, and education.
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