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As highlights of the program, Mr. Barksdale listed the following:
1. MARKETING QUOTAS As a result of an 87.4 affirmative national vote of wheat growers who voted in a referendum July 21, marketing quotas \yilL7be in effect for the 1961 crop and" the marketing of excess wheat will be subject to a penalty.
2. PRICE SUPPORT—Price support will be available on 1961 crop wheat at a minimum national average rate of $1.78 per bushel, the same as the rate for the 1960 crop. The rate was $1.97 per bushel in Rappahannock County on the 1960 crop.
1 ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS—Each wheat-producing farm has an acreage allotment, representing the farm’s share of the national allotment, which again in 1961 stands at 55 million acres, the minimum permitted by law.
Under the marketing quota system, any farmer who keeps within his wheat acreage allotment (or does not exceed 15 acres of wheat) may market his total wheat crop without penalty. Also exempt from any penalty is any farmer who Obtains approval to participate in the feed wheat program and produces 30 acres or less of wheat for use on his farm.
Other growers who exceed their allotmenrs will generally be subject
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