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signup upen t or
*58 Wheat Acreage
Reserve
Beginning August 26, eligible farmers who wish to participate in the 1958 winter wheat Acreage Reserve program may sign agreements at the County ASC Office. Mr. Barkadale, Chairman of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Comittee, announced today. The signup period for the Wheat program extends to (X tober 4 of this year.
Rates of payment indiviual farms will vary up and down from a county average rate per acre according to the relative productivity of the farms and other factors.
Farmers who are eligible to sign 1*^58 Acreage Reserve agreement for winter wheat are those who have “old farm” wheat acreage allotments for 1958 and who normally grow winter wheat.
Chairman Barksdale exlpained that; under the 1958 program, each producer will be responsible for furnishing the County ASC Committee with the production history and other information needed to establish a “Soil Bank Base” for his farm, and this must be done before th agreement may be signed. The required information should be supplied at least 15 days befort the end of the signup period on October 4.
The "base” will be determined on the basis of the average acreage of land devoted to Soil Bank base crops during 1956 and 1957; the base crops, in general, are all crops produced for harvest on a farm, expect hay crops. If a farm already has a “base” established under the .Soil Bank’s Conservation Reserve program, that base will .apply.
Farmers who earn payment under the 1958 wheat Acreage Reserve program must reduce their
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