ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1990                   TAG: 9004250171
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

WOOL, MOHAIR, HONEY PROGRAMS EXTENDED

The Senate Agriculture Committee voted Tuesday to extend government programs for wool, mohair and honey for five years with virtually no changes.

The measure authorizes loans, purchases and payments by the Agriculture Department to help the wool and mohair industry and sets a payment rate that would be the difference between the national average of all domestic wool receipts and the price the government predetermined that producers should get.

Under the new legislation, honey support prices would be frozen at 56.86 cents a pound through 1995.

- Associated Press 


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