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4. Price support to cooperators.
Participants may pasture acreage to be diverted until May 1 under both the wheat and feed grain programs. "XrJreage to be diverted will be designated by participants at the time a check is made of compliance. Compliance checks will be made in an area when subtaritially all of the particular grain has been planted. Compliance checks are now being made on the fall-seeded crop acreage signed up under the programs.
USDA officials stated that substantial headway has been made toward achieving a. more realistic relationship between supplies and needs in the important grain sector of agriculture. Under the 1961 feed grain program, production of feed grains was brought below utilization in 1961 for the f*rst time since 1952, even though crop conditions were excellent.
Signup to date for the fall seeded crops of wheat and barley shows a potential reduction of a substantial* acreage in these two crops from 1961 levels. Winter wheat acreage signed lip for diversion amounts to about 11.2 million acres, which is equal to about 25 percent of 1961 winter whebt plantings of approximately 4332 million acres. Even more significant, according to Department officials, is the fact that acreage diversion indicated in a major fiveState hard red winter wheat producing area i esqual to about 26.5 (Percent of the area’s 1961 plantings. This area produce 50 percent of the total U. S. wheat crop in 1961 and 80 percent of the hard red winter production. More than 80 percent of the^U. S. wheat carryover is hard red winter wheat.
all-seeded barley acreage signed for diversion amounts to about 1.2 million acres, which is about 23 percent of estimated 1961 fall barley planting of 5.2 million acres.
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