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Farmers Warned
About Use Of Land
Farmers with land under conservation | reserve contracts are cautioned about compliance with these contracts during the current cropping and grazing season. The reminder was issued by H. S. Barksdale, Chairman of the Rappahannock County i Agricultural Stabilization a n d ’ Conservation Service Cammittee.
He said that contracts call for no grazing or harvesting on acreage designated for the conservation reserve and for planting only with in the permitted acreage of soil bank crops On the farm.
A farm with a conservation reserve contract has a ‘•designated acreage of land that has been taken out of production and is now devoted to conservation uses. The conservation uses include trees, grasses and legumes, water storage and plantings beneficial to wildlife. In return for annual payments, the designated land is kept entirely out of production.
Before the planting, season started, each farmer with a conservation reserve contract was sent a notice of his permitted acreage which might be planted in soil bank base crops. These include all small grains, oil seed crops and most row crops, M. C. Gore explained.
He said failure to comply with one of these three contract obligations is the most frequent cause of loss of the annual conservation reserve payment.
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