SALES, INtENTIVE PAYMENTS, AND PRItES FOR TEXAS WOOL

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1 JANUARY 1958 MP-257 SALES, NtENTVE PAYMENTS, AND PRtES FOR TEXAS WOOL LBRARY 1956 MARKETNG YEAR A& MCOLL~E OF TEXAS COLLEGE STATON, iexas ntensity of Wool Sales in Texas 1956 Marketing Year C!::J None C:J 99 pounds and under per square mile pounds per square mile C:J pounds per square mile pounds and over per square mile TEXAS AGRCULTURAL R. D. L.EWS. DRECTOR, EXPERMENT COLLEGE STATON, ~TATON TEXAS

2 MSCELLANEOUS PUBLCATON 257 TEXAS AGRCULTUEAL EXPERME'NT STATON -THE TEXAS A&M COLLEGE SYSTEM R. D. Lewis, Director, College Station, Texas, January 28, 1958 SALES, NCENTVE PAYMENTS AND PRCES FOR TEXAS WOOL, 1956 ~Ju~TNG YEAR R. L. Holland and L. P. Gabbard* The National Wool Act of 1954 provided for an incentive payment for wool mohair from April 1, 1955 to March 31, The incentive price is established each marketing year at such levels as the Secretary of Agriculture deems necesto encourage an annual production consistent with the declared policy of the The incentive level was established at 62 cents per pound for shorn wool for marketing years and The marketing year runs from April 1 of year through!larch 31 of ' the next year. The shorn wool percentage rate of payment for the 1956 marketing year was percent of the total gross proceeds received by the producer for his WOOl, marketing deductions. No payment was made on mohair since the national average received was in excess of the incentive level of 70 cents per pound. A deduction was made of 1 cent per pound, grease basis, from each pro's shorn wool payment and 5 cents per hundredweight of the market price for and yearlings sold for slaughter to develop and conduct advertising and sales programs on a national basis for wool, sheep and lambs, and the products According to the applications filed in the 1956 marketing year with the office of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation in connection with the ve payment program, 237 Texas counties sold some wool under the program, as in the following county tabulations. Sales ranged from less than 100 to more 2,500,000 pounds per county. Sales in 15 counties were more than 1,000,000 each. Growers did not make applications under the program in 17 Texas Some 21,114 applications were filed in 1956, an average of nearly 89 per The number of applications ranged from 1 to more than 1,000 per county. average number of pounds per application was 2,120. Texas wool growers received more than $7,700,000 through the incentive program on shorn wool for the 1956 mar~eting year. The net sales on '''hich payments were made, gross sales minus marketing costs, amounted to,000. The two items totaled slightly more than $28,000,000. incentive payment program on unshorn lambs brought slightly more to Texas wool producers. Texas producers contributed almost $500,000 to the promotional program, sheep and lambs, and the products thereof. ively, cooperative agent, Market Research DiviSion, Agricultural Marketing, U. S. Department of Agriculture; and professor, Department of Agricultural ~'~~D and SOCiology, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station..

3 The average price received for wool in Texas in 1956 before incentive _.:nts was 45.6 cents per pound; the incentive payment pe.id averaged 17 cents per in 1956, making a total of 62.8 cents per pound. Prices during the 1955 "re1~ing year to Texas producers were 43.2 and 61.6 cents per pound, respectively. Wide variations in prices pa.id exist among Texas counties. n 1956, the average price, including incentive payments, was near 25.0 cents per pound the higbest near 75.0 cents per pound. No significant differences exist in and low county average prices between the 1955 and 1956 marketing years. These variations exist for several reasons. The most important is due Mfferences in shrinkage, but closely associated with it are the amount and type table matter present. The qual! ty of wool grown in different areas accounts some of the variation. The most important of the quality factors affecting are fineness and length of staple. Differences in price also are noted \-{hell are completed at different times of the year.

4 Net incentive Tots 1 inccn t i ve payments rec. payments on mn rke t ing incentive incentive County cations were made cation by growers1:1 shorn wool.21 cost payments paymen t s (pounds) (pounds) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (cents) (cents),----- Angelina Aransas Archer 6 8,414 1, , , , ,7' Armstrong 6 6,246 1, , , Atascosa 16 6, , ,204.' Avstin , , , , , Bailey 1l 24,408 2, , , , , Ban.dera ,584 1, , , , , t Bastrop 31 16, , , , ) Baylor 4 5,399 1, , ) Bee 23 14, , , , , Bell , , , , , Bexar , , , , , Blanco ,917 1,6091'3 91, ) , , Borden ,497 6, , , , , Bosque , ,581~66 54, , , Bowie ~ Brazoria 6 1, Braz.os 2'9 33,878 1, , , , , t> Brewster ,107 14, , , , , Briscoe 5 13,398 2, , , , , Bro"\vn ,723' 2, , , , , Burleson 23 4, , , Burnet ,531 1, , ,1~lO , , ~ Cal-dwell 59 15, , , , , As of August 24, j Net incentive paj~ents received by growers is the total incentive payment minus 1 cent per pound deducted under the provisions of the National Wool Act of 1954., +"

5 T () tal po und s Gross sf".le. Gross sales Ave ea ~e Ave ra lze of shorn wo ol Ave ea p;e no. received by minus market- price per price per No. of on which in- of pounds Net incentive Total incentive growers minus ing cost plus lb. be fore pound incl. appli- c e nt ive p ymts. per a ppli- payments rec. payme nts on marketin~ incentive inc e ntive incentive County cations were marle cation by >! rowers~/ sho rn woolz/ cost payments payments payments (pounds) ( p ounj s) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (cents) (cents) Calhoun 16 3, , , Callahan ,542 1, , , , ,883~ Cameron ~3. 3 Camp 3 2, ,306.3'7 1, Carson 12 11, , , , , Cass 6 1, Castro 19 24,200 1, , , , , Chambers 6 2, J Childress 3 1, ~ Clay 17 6, , , Cochran 2 6,388 3, , , !~ V, Coke ,079 2, , , , , Coleman 520 1,346,449 2, , , , , Collin , , , , ,057' Col1insvTorT,h 3 2, , , Colorado 67 11, , , , , Comal , ,881~.45 37, ,612~20 127, Comanche ,412 1, , , , , Concho 333 1,097,263 3, , , , , Cooke , , , , , Coryell ,656 1, , , ,152c35 432, Cottle 4 1, , Crane ,467 11, , , , , Crockett 151 2,306,180 15, , , l,107, ,527, ~ Crosby 7 4, , ,

6 Oross sales Oross.'lea Avera~e no. received by minus market- No. of on Wflich in- of pounds Ne t incentive Total incentive growers minus ing cost plus appli- c e ntive pymts. p e r appli- paymellts rec. payments on marketing incen t i ve inc en t i ve County c a tions were made cati o n by ~rowers'lj shorn wnol2,1 cost paymen t s payments (~ounds ) (pounds) (d o llars) (doll u r s ) (dollars (c.;)11{ ~ r!l ) (c ents ) (c en ts) Culberson ,576 16, , , , , Dallam Dallas , , , , , Dawson 16 25,441 1, , , , , Deaf Smith 20 11, , , , , Delta 46 42, , , , , Denton , , , , , DeWitt , ,857,,68 10, ,21} , Dickens 13 9, , , , , Dirnmit 16 51,100 3, , , , , Donley 3 3,722 1, , \ Duval !t \ Eastland , , , , , Ector 1 11,664 11, , , , , J Edwards ,664 4, , , , , Ellis , , , , , E1 Paso 7 4, , , Erath , , , , , Falls 57 18, , , , , Fannin 55 32, , , , , Fayette , , , ,699~23 10, Fisher 14 25,757 1, , , , , Floyd ,214 2, , 721t.48 26, , , Foard 11 4, , ,347c Fort Bend 26 3, , ,

7 pounds Gro e. Gros a 1ea oe shorn wool AVerA Re no. received by minus mrrket- No. of on which in- of pounds Net incentive Total incentive ~ro.ers minus ing cost plus apf-li- centive pymts. p e r appli- payments rec. payments on marketin~ incentive incentive County cotions were made cation by gr owe r s.2.1 shorn wool.21 cost payments payments (pounds) (pounds) (dollars) (d o llars) (uou " rs) (dollars) (c e nts) (cents) Franklin 6 1, Freestone 31 9, , , , ,1' Frio 14 7, , , , , Gaines l~ 3, L~ Galveston 12 2, '., , '"! Garza...! Gillespie 1,082 1,447,881 1, , , , , Glasscock ,874 4, 1~ , , , , 51} Goliad , , , , , Gonzales 82 21, , , , , Gray 3 1, Grayson 77 2b, ~.1 3, 141~.62 4, ,021~.C:3 13, Gregg 1 1, ~ Grimes 33 13, , ,8ho.42 4, , Guadalupe 82 20, , , , Hale 44 53,164 1, , , , ,Oh Hall t~.o 32.5 Hamilton , , , ,Tf , Hansford 4 3, ,0' , Hardeman 8 2, C Hardin Harris 57 10, , , , , Harrison 6 3, ,!t ,035.17!~ Hartley 3 1, Haskell 6 2, ,

8 Gross sale. Gross sales Averelle Averaf/:e AvcreO!:e no. rec e iv~d by minus markf.'t- p~ice per price per No. of 011 which in- of pounds Net incentive Total incentive growers minus ing cost plus lb. before pound incl. appli- c en tivc pymts. per appli- payments r ec. payments on marketing incentive incentive incen t i ve County cati o ns w.:: rt: maue cation by growers~1 shorll wo011.1 cost payments paymen t s payments,-_._._ (pounds) (pounds) (dc'jlbr s ) (dollars) (dol lars) (dollars) (c e n t s ) (cents).... _---_ Hays ,157 1, , , , , Hemphill 11 9, , , , ~ Henderson 4 3, , ,013~ Hidalgo 2 1, Hill , , , , , Hockley ~ Hood ,762 1, , , , , l ~ Hopl~ins 38 10, , , , , Ho'trlard 37 87,255 2, , , , , Hudspeth ,373 9, , , , , Hunt 82 28, , , , , OJ Hutchison 2 4,235 2, , , t rion ,805 7, , , , , 63l~. 57 L~ Jack 41 13, , , , , Jackson!~6 8, , , , , Jasper cO Jeff Davis ,416 13,~ lb. 7 85, , , , Jefferson ,, ~,O Jim \'ie11s 25 17, , , , , Johnson 87 54, , , , , Jones 20 12, , , , , Karnes 54 13, , , , , Kaufman 36 11, , , , , Kend.a ,438 1, , , , 461t , Kent., '

9 o~a 1 pound. Gros. sale. Gro.s sales of shc..rn wool AVerBKe no. rt<ceived by minus mark.:!t- N( ' ~ 0 f 011 which in- of pounds Net incentive Tutal incentive growers minus ing cos t plus appli- centive pymts. per appli- payments rec. paymen ts on rna rkc t in~ incentive incentive County cations were made cation by ~ r o we r s 2.1 shorn \V0011'/ cost p".lym~nts paymt'nts (pounds) (pound s ) (dollars) (dollclrs) (dollars) (dollars) (c (; nts) (cents) Kerr ,770 2, , , , , Kimble 341 1,148,272 3, , , , , Kinney 99 1,057,495 10, , , , , lfuox 11 6, , , Lamar 63 41, , , , , Lamb 21 43,914 2, , , , h.'"td:pasas 5i~4 871,240 1, , , ,650.1.~3 567, La Salle 1 1,045 1, Lavaca , , , , , Lee 51 9, , , , , Leon 28 22, , , , , \() Liberty 2 1, Limestone 19 11,035 ~80.8 1, , , , Lipscomb , Live Oak 5 21,888 4, , , , , Llano ,949 1, , , , , Lubbock 44 89,720 2, , , , , Lynn 10 4, , , McCulloch ,170 2, , , , , 51~ McLennan , , , , , Y.adison 6 1, , ll8.rtin 19 42, , , , , Mason ,042 1, , , , , ~ Matagorda 30 9, , , , , Maverick 1 17,431 2, , , , ,

10 Tutal pound. Gro aale. Gro aalea of sllorn wool Avcrfl~e no. rcccivt"d by minus market- No. of on which in- of pounds Net iflc~ntive Total incentive growers minus ing cost plus oppli- centive pymts. pe r a ;:>pl i-!"laymen t s rec. puyrreots 00 rna rke t ing incentive incen t i ve County cations we re mrde cation by growers.2.1 shorn woo121 c o s t peymen t s p c yments (p()und s ) (pounds) (dollars) (d o llars) (dollars) (dollars) (cents) (cents) Medina 139" 182,771 1, , , , , Menard ,649 3, , , , , Midland ,054 J+,311.5> 27, , , , f.d.lam 85 26, , , , , Mills ,000,985 1, , , , , J:vitchel ,661 5, ~ , ,299.tj8 59, }.~ontague 37 11, , ,642,,07 4, , Montgomery Moore 2 3,438 1, , l ~orris $0 Motley 9 4, , , Nacogdoches b Navarro 55 29, , , ) 1.~ l t / Newton a ~0 Nolan ,619 3, , , , , ~ Nueces 32 8, , , , , Ochiltree 18 26,019 1, , , , ,251tl Oldham 4 7,997 1, ) , t6 Orange 7 1, , Palo Pinto 56 44, , , , , Panola '~.0 Parker , , , , , Pamer 7 5, ~~. 59 1, , Pecos 143 1,295,326 9, , , ) , Polk ~

11 received by No. of on which in- of pounds Ne~ incen~ive To~al incen~ive growers minus appl i- centive pymts. per appli- payments rec. payments on marketing County cations were made cation by growers2./ shorn wool,2/ cost (pounds) (pounds) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (cen ts ) (cents) Potter 7 4, , , Presidio ,717 12, , , , , Rains 5 1, Randall 13 6, , , Reagan ,798 6, , , , , Real ,727 1, , , , ,J.~ Red River 21 17,762 8it5.8 2, , , , Reeves 10 72,576 7, , , , , Refugio 20 3, , , Roberts 5 1., Robertson 8 3, , , , Rockwall 20-6, , , , f-' Runnels ,348 2,397.8 lo8, , , , Rusk 4 1, Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio 8 5, , , San Saba ,766 1, , , , , Schleicher ,291 5, , , , , Scurry 26 37,482 1, , , , , Shackelford 13 39,461 3, , , , , Shelby Sherman Smith

12 (~ont1.nu~q).. To ta poun,j S Gross sbles Gross sales Avcra",e Ave ra RC of sho ra wool Averaj"c no. rcc~ive,l Ly minus market- pr ice pe r price per No. of on which in- of pounds Net incentive Total incentive growers minus l.ng cost plus lb. be fore pound incl. appli - centive pymts. pe r appl i- payments r c c. payments on marketing incentive incentive incentive County cations were m~de cation by growers2:/ shorn wool.11 cost payments payments payments (pound s) (pounds) (dollars) (dolla rs) (dollars) (dollars) (cents) (cents) Somervell 37 21, , , , , Stephens 26 52,046 2, , , , , eterling ,720 11, 559.l~ 129, 381~ , , , Stonewall 10 8, , , , , Sutton 209 1,669,044 7, , , , ,139, S\{isher 16 18,493 1, , , , , Tarrant , , , , , Taylor ,769 2, , , , , Terrell 106 1,141,479 10, , , , , 'llerry 2 1, l~ , Throckmorton 22 10) , , , , Titus 10 4, , ,L~ Tom Green 277 1,597, , , , , Travis , , , , , lt Tyler 10 2, , il:pshur Upton ,261 12, , , , , Uvalde 308 1,022,618 3, , , ,0:D , \Tal Verde 199 2,651,541 13,32~.3 520, , ,367, ,887, Van Zandt 15 3, , , Victoria , , , , , Ha1ker Waller 31 6, , , WaShington , , , , , Webb ~ ~9 J\)

13 1956 MARKml'XNG YEAR, BY COUNT:rm! ~~VU".LUU~U.l Total pounds Gross sajes Gross sales Avera;:!.e Averal4e of shorn wool Average no. received by minus marke t- price per price per No. of on which in- of pounds Net incentive Total ince ntive growers minus in~ cost plus lb. be fore pound incl. apoli- centive pymts. per appli- payments rec. payments on marke tin\2: incentive inc e ntive incentive County catio')s were made cation by p,rowersll shorn wno121 cost payme nts payments payments ( p ounds) (pounds) (dollars) (doll a r s ) (do llars) (dollars) (c ~ nts) (c e nts) -J Wharton 28 11, , , ,403,88 4, Wheeler 5 1, ~ ~ Wichita 15 26,312 1, , , , , Wilbarger 9 1, Williamson , , , 959)}8 224, , Wilson 31 5, i~ ,001~. 58 2, Wise 92 45, , , , , Wood 12 2, , ,415,, Yoakum !~ ~l4.5 YOUlle; 26 18, , , , , ' LV Zapata 5 1, !}3.0, Zavala 26 82,449 3, , , , , Total 21,114 44,765,483 2, ,709, ,156, ,391, ,100~