Association Believes Wool Act Must Continue For Sheep Producers To Survive
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menu to growers in 1992 were
some of the highest in history
allowing many sheep producers to
continue in business and provide a
reliable, quality product to U.S.
consumers.
There is no net cost to taxpayers
to continue the<program, since the
money is collected from tariffs,
according to ASI. In 1991, accord
ing to ASI, tariffs collected more
than $4Ol million, bringing the
lifetime earnings of this program
to $7.4 billion. Total payments in
1991 woe just more than $172
million.
The income “stablizes entire
rural communities," according to
an ASI incentive program facts-
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hect. More than 350,000 Ameri
cans in small communities exist on
income generated by die sheep
industry. The sheep industry con
tributes about $2 billion to the
nation’s gross national product.
The problem producers see is
that instead of 70 percent of the tot
al tariffs being funnelled to die
incentive program, only about 30
percent are. The rest goes directly
to the U.S. treasury, which many
producers believe is unfair.
If the Wool Act were killed,
according to ASI, the result would
be lowered income to farmers and
ranchers, reduced supplies of
wool, increased prices to consum
ers, and lessened incentive for
quality improvement in the wool
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industry. Many other related
businesses, such as the textile
industry, would also suffer, in
addition to feed companies and
farm-related businesses that
depend on the wool producer.
According to Vogel, a regis
tered Columbia Sheep producer, a
great deal of the state’s sheep pro
ducers approximately 60 per
cent are in the western part of
the state. The picture is the same
nationwide but where th& graz
ing costs are inexpensive in Pen
nsylvania, costs are a great deal
higher out West, because of costs
to producers as established by the
Bureau of Land Management.
And if the attempts to kill the
Act are successful, the nation’s
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wool producers may be forced
completely out of business. State
producers could suffer, along with
associated businesses, with
another negative blow to the
nation’s troubled economy.
’ ’There is a great deal of activity
nationwide among all areas having
anything to do with the wool
industry to lobby for support in the
Senate for the Wool Act," said
Janet Mawhinney, a Dorset breed
er who serves as legislative
spokesperson for the state wool
growers. “We believe that each of
our senators from Pennsylvania
will vote to support the Wool Act if
it is brought up for a vote when the
body returns to session on Sept 7. ’ ’
In a letter to Lancaster Farm -
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ing, Mawhinney wrote that U.S.
Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Bryn
Mawr) “wrote a very positive let
ter to the conference committee
supporting the continuation of the
act. The staff of Senator Specter's
office have assured me on more
than one occasion that he supports
the Wool Act”
Mawhinney wrote that the asso
ciation needs “calls, letters, faxes
to each of their offices requesting
their vote to support the Act in
whatever form in may be brought
up on the Senate floor.” Mawhin
ney urges sheep producers to con
tact Sen. Aden Specter a (202)
224-4254 or Sen. Harris Wofford
at (202) 224-6324.
T. A. Doebler