USD A estimates wool payments at $41.9 million
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sheep administrator of the U.S. market price for shorn wool was 42.9 percent, compared with a on the shorn wool payment rate,
producers will receive about 141.-9 Department of Agriculture’s 94.5 cents a pound, 40.5 cents less payment rate of 39.6 percent in the average weight of wool per
million in federal incentive Agricultural Stabilization and than the $1.35 per pound support i9flo, he said. The payment rate is hundredweight of lambs and the
payments on wool they sold in 1981, Conservation Service, mohair price, Rank said. Dividing the the amount required to bring the price of lamb’s wool relative to the
while mohair producers will payments are being made for the difference (40.5 cents) by the average market price up to the national average price for shorn
receive about $1.6 million. first time since 1971. average market price (94.5 cents) support price. wool, Rank said
According to Everett ✓ Rank, The 1981 national average results in the 1981 payment rate of p o r mohair, the 1981 average
market price was $3.50 and die
support price $3.72, making the
payment rate 22 cents per pound,
or 6.3 percent, Rank Said.
The wool and mohair programs
encourage the production of higher
quality fibers because the more
producers receive irom sales, the
more they receive in government
incentive payments. Producer
payments are determined by
multiplying the payment rates
(42.9 percent and 6.3 percent)
times the net dollar return
received by producers from wool
and mohair sales.
Producers will receive $1.62 per
hundredweight in federal
payments for unshorn lambs they
sold or slaughtered in 1981. This
payment is to compensate growers
for wool on live lambs they
marketed. The payment is based
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Incentive payment checks are
prepared by USDA’s Kansas City
Management Field Of&ce. When
payments are computed, the office
withholds 2-1/2 cents a pound from
wool payments and 12-% cents per
hundredweight from lamb
payments. This money later is
forwarded to the American Sheep
Producers' Council to finance
advertising, sales promotion and
related market development ac
tivities. No deductions are
authorized from mohair payments.
These wool and lamb deductions
were approved by a 75.3 percent
favorable vote by sheep producers
voting m a referendum in August
1978.
Payments will be made soon
through county offices of USDA’s
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservative Service, Rank said.