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Farmers are now signing intentions to divert acreages of corn, grain sorghum and barley to participate in the 1963 feed grain program, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office reports. The signup period will extend through March 22. James W. Coates, ASCS county office manager, explained the principal features of the 1963 feed grain program as follows: (1) the program is voluntary;
(2) it applies to corn, grain sorghum, and barley for which crops the base acreages (1959-60 average) are added together into one “feed grain base" for the farm; (3) program participants must take at least 20 per cent of the total base out of production and devote such acres to a conservation use;
(4) a program participant must not exceed the feed grain base for any other farm in which he has an interest in the feed grain crops; (5) diversion payments will be made to participants for shifting acreage from production into conservation; (6) price-support payments (18 cents a bushel for corn, 14 cents for barley, and 16 cents for grain sorghum) will be made to program participants on the normal production of their 1963 feed grain acreage, no matter what use is made of the grain;
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