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Soil Bank's '58 Wheat
Acreage Reserve
Announced
The soil bank’s 1958 acreage reserve program, announced recently by Acting Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse, will be available first for winter wheat to be seeded thia fall, H. Ryland Heflin, Chairman of the Virginia Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committe, said today.
Beginning August 26, farmers who wish to take part in the acreage reserve program by reducing their winter acreage below the established farm acreage allotment will be able to sign 1958 program agreements at the County ASC Office. Officials in the office are busy working out lastminute details of procedure, prior to opening of the sign-up period.
“A number of changes have been made in provisions of the 1958 acreage based on the past 2 years experience,” Chairman Heflin stated. “Probably the most important of these changes is tne establishment of a total crop acreage figure for each farm—to be called the ‘soil bank base’—as a means- of reducing the farm's ac-" reage of harvested crops.
“In the agreements, fanners will agree to limit their harvest of so.called ‘soil bank base’ crops to the ‘permitted acreage’—in general, the number of acres in the soil bank base less the number of acres ‘reserved.’ This ‘soil bank base' provision should help to check the shift of production from acreage reserve crops to other crops, which contribute to overall surpluses.”
Since a soil bank base must be established for each farm before an agreement may be signed, fanners are urged to bring along a record of their farm's^r-op history when they call at the County ASC Office
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