Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 2 · column 6 of 8 · from the scan, no model involved
Barksdale, chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, said today.
These payments were provided by the new farm law, signed ' by President Kennedy'on Sept. 27, 1962. They supplement the marketing quotas, and price supports previously in effect for the 1963 wheat crop.
The Chairman explained that the diversion payments will be similar to the payments made under the 1962 wheat stabilisation program. They will be available to growers who reduce their wheat acreage by at least 20 percent and devote the diverted acres to an approved conservation use. The payment will be based on the farm’s established wheat yield and one-half the county price-support loan rate.
In addition, a price-support payment of 18 cents a bushel on the normal production (established yield) of the 1968 wheat acreage will be available to growers who participate in the j wheat-diversion part of the program. Small farms must also be in compliance with their farm acreage allotments in order to be eligible for price-support loans or purchase agreements and the 28-cent price-support payment.
Price-suport loans and purchase agreements averaging $1.82 per bushel nationally will be available to growers who comply with their acreage ' allotments. This part of the wheat program is the same as in previous year?.
Mr. Barksdale - pointed out that the regular price-support is available on the 1963-crop wheat which a grower produces in compliance with his farm allotment and puts under loan or purchase agreement. The 18-cent payment, on the other hand, is made to such a grower—who is also participating in the wheat diversion program—on the normal yield of the 1963 wheat acreagfe, no matter how much he actually produces.
Chairman Barksdale said that the signup in the wheat diver
65.8%