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Article: Union calls for referendum on future of wool marketing
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Scotland's farming union has called for a referendum to decide the
future of wool marketing as concerns grow at the poor prices being
paid by the statutory body responsible for selling it.
NFU livestock committee convener Kelvin Pate said the time had
come to possibly consider alternative strategies for the marketing of
wool from Scotland.
The vote being proposed by the union would show if Scottish wool
producers believed the British Wool Marketing Board was delivering
for them or if an independent report should be commissioned to devise
a better regime that ensures higher returns to farmers.
The union's call for a debate on the issue comes just weeks after
British Wool Marketing Board ...