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1956 Minimum Wheat
Price Support, $1.81
If Quotes Approved \ ’
A minimum price support for the 1956 wheat crop of not less < than $1.81 :* bushel, national average,, has been announced by the Department of Agriculture, according tea Mr. H. S. Barksdale, , Chairman of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. The announced minimum support rate will be in effect in tjhe commercial wheat States if wheat growers approve marketing Quotas in the referen^, dum on June 25. (Virginia is, a commercial wheat State.)
The price 1 announcement followed an earlier statement by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson that | the minimum 1956 wheat support^ price wduld be es- ■ tablished before the marketing quota referendum. With this announcement, Wheat growers have all the necessary facts before voting in the referendum. . -
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