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Show USPA agreement Lsmb and wool producers will have ! opcortuiity during an Au8- 16-17 Jrsidum to vote on whether they rt the American Sheep Producers il, Inc., to continue it's market lKion and improvement program Jfcir behalf by entering a new -eerrent with the U.S. Department of culture. (USDA). According to Everett Rank, siiiistrator of USDA's Agricultural jilluation and Conservation Service, jiOTement to be voted on is similar j the one approved in 1978, except it nJd authorize larger deductions from jjiicer incentive payments. 3v approving the agreement, jicers would authorize deductions ir :o4cents per pound on shorn wool t cents per hundred weight on shorn lambs marketed in 1982. ix:tion rates from 1978 to 1981 ,x 24 cents and 12'2 cents sctiwly. Rank said. yearly wo1 producers ikkw incentive payments. Last year i ns 8 cents per pound, to bring the res of sheep to a support price of 1 5 per pound. id also said the new agreement n.i provide for USDA to withhold part of any wool incentive payments that might be made to producers on 1983-85 marketings to finance the council's promotion activities. Deductions would he used bv the council 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 imporvement for wool and sheep. County officers of the Agricultrual Stabilization and Conservation Service will distribute copies of the agreement and ballots to sheep producers in early August. Producers may cast their ballots by mailing or delivering them in person to county ASCS offices by the close of the referendum. Rank said. Anyone may vote who has owned sheep six months old or older for at least 30 consecutive days during 1981. Votes may be cast by individuals or by cooperatives. Members of cooperatives which cast votes would not be eligible to vote separately in the referendum. The agreement requires approval by two-thirds two-thirds of the total volume of producers, or two-thirds of the total volume of producers, or two-thirds of the total production represented in the referendum. (Continued on page 2) Growers... (Continued from page 1 ) The National Wool Act of 1954 provides the authority for deductions and for promotion activities. Sheep producers have approved the program in each of the seven referendums sinci 1954. In the most recent referendum of 1978, 75 percent of the producers approved the program. |