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Wheat Program
Controls Explained
Wheat producers who plant within their allotments and meet the diversion and conservation-use provisions of the 1964 wheat program need have no worries about program penalties if the 1964 wheat program is approved by growers ir\ the May 21 wheat referendum, H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Rappahannock. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, said today.
"There’s been a lot of loose talk about controls and penalties in the 1964 wheat program,” the Chainman declared. “Actually, the 1964 wheat program is similar in most respects to the 1962 program, and any new provisions represent modi! fications to improve and bring the old program up to date. We hope that farmers will not be misled but will get the true facts before they cast their ballots on May 21.” Mr. Barksdale explained that the 1964 wheat program includes two types of penalties: (11 A marketing quota penalty, which had been a part of wheat programs since 1938; and (2) a land-use penalty, which is new and represents an effort to encourage farmers to meet land-use program provisions similar to those in effect for the 1962 and 1963 wheat programs. In more detail:
1. A marketing quota penalty will affect producers who overplant their allotment and do not postpone the penalty by storing the excess wheat production under bond or avoid it by delivering the excess wheat to the Secretary . The penalty will be 63 percent of the May 1, 1964 parity times the num
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