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A.S.C. News
The Agricultural Conservation Program for 1965 will again encourage farmers to shift from production of surplus crops to conserving land uses and to establish practices for conservation of soil, water, woodland, and wildlife, where needed, according toH. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee. The County has been allocated $38,000.00 in program funds this year to help carry out conservation practices on farms. The Chairman explained that the local cost-sharing program has beenformulated with in the natlpnal program authority, to include practices which will best meet the conservation problems of Rappahannock County. This is done annually by an ACP Development Group, composed of the ASC Committee, Soil Conservation Service technicians, and Federal Forest Service foresters advised by others with conservation interests.* As in previous years, farmer-elected ASC Committees will administer ttfe program and will relate it to work plans of the local soil and water conservation district. The Soil Conservation Service and forestry agencies are responsible for technical phases of certain practices. A list of approved ACP practices— for which the program will again cover approximately half the cost--is available at the ASCS county office. In announcing the national ACP for 1965-the 30th program year—Secretary of Agriculture Freeman said: "This program, which reaches into every State and
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