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one who has a wheat allotment of less than 15 acres. By signing up, such an operator chooses to be an allotment grower in 1964 and - - if quotas are approved - - he and other growers on his farm become eligible to qualify for price supports, certificates and payments for diverting { wheat acreage to soil-conserving uses. Thus, he be-r comes eligible to vote on whether the program shall go into effect. County Chairman of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, points out that this advance signup is a means of qualifying to vote as specified in the law.' 'The rule has not been pulled out of a hat by the people who help to administer the program, he said. 'A list of eligible producers is needed to provide for an orderly and proper referendum, just as in any,other democratic election." As a program participant, the small-allotment farm producer will be eligible for price support based on national average rates of $2.17 a bushel for certificated wheat and $1.47 for noncertificated wheat.Certificated wheat will be 80 per cent of the normal production of the acreage allotment,but' not more than the farm's normal yield times the planted acreage. As a program participant,! also, the small-allotment1 farm producer with an allotment of 13.5 acres or less may divert all of his wheat acreage to soil-conserving
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