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Article: PWC: now not time to bow out
- Article from:
- The Press
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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A farmer co-operative maintains key wool projects can be carried
out by alternative funding after farmers voted to dump Meat & Wool
New Zealand's $6.4 million wool levy.
The Primary Wool Co- operative (PWC) with Romney NZ released an
open letter in August urging farmers to vote no to the levy in the
lead-up to the election, which must have gained support as only beef
and sheep meat levies advanced.
Wool funding was proposed to drop for the next five-year
programme to 4 cents per kilogram and then 3c/kg in 2012 and be
spent on activities such as on-farm research, monitor farms, shearer
and wool handling training, Sheep Improvement Ltd (SIL), and the
collection of wool data by the Meat & ...