Lamb Assessment Collection Underway

WASHINGTON - Jul 1/02 - SNS -- Collection of monies due under the Lamb Promotion, Research and Information Program got underway today.

Domestic lamb producers, feeders, seedstock producers and exporters will pay one-half cent ($.005) per pound of live lambs sold.

In addition, first handlers -- primarily packers -- will be assessed 30-cents-per-head for lambs purchased for slaughter.

Beginning July 1, producers, feeders, seedstock producers and exporters must pay the assessment for each lamb, ewe and ram sold. Importers of lamb will not be assessed.

First handlers will collect the assessments from producers, feeders and seedstock producers and remit the applicable form and assessments to the secretary of agriculture, at the following address: Lamb Promotion, Research and Information Program, c/o U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 23029 Network Place, Chicago, Ill., 60673-1230.

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