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The United States Agriculture Department has granted more than $141
million funding in the current fiscal year to 70 trade organisations
to help them promote US agriculture products overseas, reports the sheep
industry magazine 'The Banner'. The support is administered by the industry
organisations, under agreed programmes.
The relatively small US sheep sector [the UK's is four times bigger]
was granted via the American Sheep Industry Association [ASI] the sum
of $ 729 697, an increase on the previous year. This support will be
used by ASI to help with trade show participation, inward and outward
trade missions, to explore new markets for wool, to conduct trials and
provide samples to potential importers.
Rob Wills, Executive Manager of the British Livestock
Genetics Consortium said "I admire the US Government for this support and the way it
is handled but it does, of course, put their producers at an advantage
in the market place compared to those other countries such as ours; and,
the sheep sector is just one branch getting this help ."
[16 Jan
05]
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