Skin prices drop
Skin payments to farmers for sheep killed for export have been reduced, mainly 45c a head. A meat industry spokesman said that until now few sheep had been killed, thus providing little to gauge the market on. Now killing had begun and pelt brokers had a better chance to judge values. Prices for sheep skins will range from 239 c for a skin with 0.2 kg of wool on it to 360 c for a skin with a kilogram of wool, and 535 c for a skin with 2kg of wool. Lamb skin prices have also been reduced, because of an easing in wool values,
and a slight easing in pelt prices. In the case of woolly lamb: skins the drop is 11c for a. skin with o.skg of wool, 12c > for a skin with one kilogram of wool, and 13c where the skin is carrying I.skg of wool. The skin with o.skg of wool will now be worth 260 c and the one with I.skg Of wool 434 c. The reductions for shorn lamb skins are 4c at 0,2 kg of wool, 6c at o.skg of wool and 6c at Ikg. Here skin values will now range from 198 c for a skin with o.2kg of wool to 430 c for a skin ( with I.skg of wool. 1
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Press, 4 March 1978, Page 3
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