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Title: Insecticide applied to sheep and the capacity of the Pastoral Wool Industry to meet markets for pesticide-free wool / Peter Morcombe.
Author: Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture. ; Morcombe, P. W. (Western Australian Dept. of Agriculture, Perth. Epidemiology Branch)
Year: [1995]
Description: [7] p. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Chemical use. ; Sheep. ; Wool industry. ; Insecticides. ; Pesticide residues. ; Wool production. ; Organochlorine pesticides. ; Wool quality. ; Western Australia. ; Arsenicals. ; Animal husbandry. ; Phthiraptera.
Notes: Cover title. 1 table.
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Type: Book
Abstract: A survey of 60 wool growers from the Pastoral Region estimated that 3.2% of sheep producing 314t of greasy wool had not been treated with any chemical within the past 12 months. The remaining 96.8% of the sheep received at least one, off-shears, application of a chemical for the control lice. It is also estimated that 66% of sheep in the Region, cutting about 6,5000 t of greasy wool, were treated off-shears to control lice but were not treated for fly strike. Of the wool growers managing these sheep, 58%
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