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The signup for the 1965 wheat program now is under way at the ASCS County Office, H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, has announced. The signup will extend through Oct. 2. Applications to take part in the program may be filed any working day, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. ‘ The chairman emphasized that participation in the voluntary wheat program is not automatic. The signup is the 'first step to qualifying for any of the program’s benefits. Participating farmers can get about the same returns from the 1965 program as they received from the 1964 program. They may get more by using new options that will enable .many producers to adapt the program more closely to their farming operations. Growers who are interested in any of the program’s new provisions should ask how these would affect their operations at the time of signing up. These new provisions include substitution of wheat for feed grains or feed grains for wheat in the diversion program, and the establishment of an oats-rye base for certain farms. Price support loans will average $1.40 per bushel in Rappahannock County. Domestic certificates will be worth 75 cents per bushel ( on as much as ’45 per cent of the allotment’s normal production), and export certificates will be worth 30 cents a bushel (on as much as 35 per cent of the allotment’s normal production).
To qualify for diversion payments, the participating grower will also under-produce his allotment by at least 10 per cent and devote those acres to be approved, conserving uses. These payments will be based on 50 percent of the county price-support loan rate and the normal yield for the farm and will average I about $17.50 per acre in Virginia.
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