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Because only growers or over 15 acres of wheat will be subject to marketing quotas, they are the only growers eligible to vote in the referendum. However, any and all producers who will be interest* ed in a wheat crop of 16 or more acres in 1956 may vote. The referendum will be conducted under supervision of county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committees. These committees are at present computing individual farm allotments and such allotments, as well as facts on the referendum, will be in wheat producers’ hands prior to the date on which the vote will be held.
Growers will merely vote yes or no on the question of marketing quotas in 1956. A favorable twothirds majority will mean that marketing quotas will continue for „ farms with wheat acreage of more than 15 acres; penalties will apply on wheat excess production; and the' price support level to be announced shortly will probably' be between 75 and 82 percent of parity Vo farmers complying with their allotments.
If more than one-third of the votes cast in the referendum op' pose quotas, there will be no penalties on excess wheat allotments will remain in effect for price support eligibility; and price support will be at 50 percent of parity to those producers who comply with farm allotments.
The Virginia wheat allotments for 1956 is 261,043 acres and there will be probably about 48,000 individual farm allotments.
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