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Farmers in Virginia used Agricultural Conservation Program cost-sharing assistance to establish conservation practices on 27,711 farms in the 1960 program year, according to the official State summary now being published by the ASC State Office. These farms contained 35 per cent of all the farmland in Virginia.
Among outstanding conservation achievements by farmers reported in the summary were 79,047 acres of grass, legumes and trees established which take land out of intensive use for more than one crop year, another 195,484 acres of vegetative cover improved to bring it up to conservation level and extend its normal life span, and 939 farm and irrigation ponds constructed.
ACP is administered nationally by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. In Virginia and the 99 agricultural caunties of the State it is administered by farmers who are members of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) committees. Last year’s State program was established at a $4 and one half million level to provide administrative assistance and share costs of materials and services to help farmers carry out needed conservation work on farmland. *
In 1960, the latest program year for which figures are available, cost-shares averaged about half the cost of the practices carried out. Participating farmers paid their half in money, materials, labor and
79.7%