Skin prices up
The prices to farmers for all skins of woolly and shorn lambs and also sheep killed for export have been raised by 10c. This increase comes into effect on Monday. There has, however, been a reduction of 2c a kilogram in the price for the MM grade of sheep meat. The price for it will now be 29c a kilogram. The supplements paid to meat companies to enable the prices for beef for export to be held at floor price levels are unchanged. Next
week they will be 16c a kilogram on manufacturing beef and 3c for bull beef. A woolly lamb skin with a kilogram of wool on it will now be worth 127 c, with I.skg of wool 197 c and with 2kg of wool 267 c. For a shorn lamb skin with o.skg of wool the price will be 32c and with Ikg of wool 99c. For a sheep skin with o.skg of wool the new price will be 45c, with Ikg of wool 122 c, I.skg of wool 201 c and with 2kg of wool 275 c.
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Press, 2 May 1981, Page 3
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