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Plans For Soil Bank
The U. S. Department of Agriculture today announced plans for the Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank for I960 crop season. This will be the fifth year of the Conservation Reserve Program under which farmers (contract to withdraw general cropland from production and protect it with conservation uses for a period of 3 to 10 years. i The 1960 Conservation Re-erv? will be similar to 1959 program. Principal changes have been made in regulations relating to publicly owned land, tenure of ownership, the method of 'etting payment rates ahd the det-rnairwrion of priorities when mo t applica iom are received than can be accented.
Detailed information as to the application of these and other changes to individual farm situa* tions will not be available in county ASC offices until mid-August, since time is required! to instruct State and county office personnel in the new program.
The basic national per-acre rate of payment for 1960 will be $13.50, the same as for 1959. The acreage goal is approximately 5 million acres for land to be pu; in the program under contracts beginning with 1960 cropsi This is the estimated maximum additional acreage that cars, be accommodated t- under the $375 nillicr annu-1 program authorized by Congress for 1960. Tiv’s compares with approximately 13 million new acres placed under contract in 1959.
Approximately 10 million acres will also remain under Cun-crva. '' tion Reserve contracts in 1960 from years previous to 1959. If farmers contract for the exoected 5 million new acres in 1960, the total acreage in the program next year will be approximately 28 million acres.
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