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Wheat Marketing

Legislation Changed

Proclamations relating to marketing quotas and acreage allotments for the 1963 crop of wheat have been temporarily postponed, according to an announcement by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman.

The postponement was authorized by legislation recently enacted by Congress which permits the Secretary of fAgriculture to defer until June 15, 1962, any proclamation as marketing quotas and acreage allotments for the 1963 wheat crop which otherwise would be required to be mad? May 15.

H. S. Barksdale, chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, reminds wheat growers that the Wheat Stabilization Program provided legislation enacted last year applies only to the 1962 crop of wheat. Under that program, individual farm wheat allotments were reduced 10 per cent below Continued on page hire he

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