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Wool Producers
Vote On Checkoff
Wool and lamb producers will vote from now through Sept. 1 in a referendum to decide if they approve of a new agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the American Sheep Producers Council Inc. (ASPC).
Frances P. Gilbert, executive director of Fauquier-Prince William County ASCS office, says.
ASPC conducts wool and lamb market expansion programs under the authority of the National Wool Act of 1954.
Officials of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service said the Agreement provides for USDA to withhold part of any wool incentive payments that might be made to producers "ti 1978-81 marketings to finance ASPC’s activities.
Deductions would be used by ASPC to finance advertising and sales promotion programs for wool and lamb, and programs to develop and disseminate information on product quality, production management and marketing for wool and sheep.
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