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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 program in five referendums since 1954. In the most recent referencum of 1971, 87.0 percent of the producers voting, who owned 87.2 percent of the sheep,approved the program.
Approval by either two-thirds 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 40,181 producers voted for the new agreement and 6,829 producers voted against it. Those favoring the agreement owned 7,959,642 sheep and those opposed to the agreement owned 1,103,448 sheep.
THE PROPOSED agreement
97.6%