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marketed during 1986 through 1990. The new agreement authorizes deductions of up to 6 cents a pound on shorn wool up from 4 cents and 30 cents 1 hundredweight on unshorn lambs up from 20 cents. The previous rates had been in effect for 4 years.
Last year, the Council’s expenditures for wool and lamb promotion were about $4.1 million. The amount budgeted for the current year is $5.1 million.
Sheep producers have approved the wool and lamb promotion program by the necessary two-thirds majority in eight referendums held since 1954.
The Council’s national wool promotion program is run in cooperation with other segments of the industry which provide additional or matching funds. Promotion activities include advertising, merchandising and education. Lamb promotion is concentrated in high lamb-consumption areas.
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