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1965 Feed Grain
Sign-Up Underway
The signup for the 1965 feed grain program now is under way in the ASCS County Office H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, has announced. The signup period started Feb. 8 and will continue through March 26. The Chairman explained that the program for 1965 is basically the same as in 1964, It is voluntary, and combines corn, grain sorghum, and barley in a single feed grain base, participating farmers will qualify for diverted-acre and price-support payments, and they will be eligible for pricesupport loans. Farmers who take part in the program may divert for payment as small an acreage as 20 percent of the farm’s feed grain base or as large an acreage as 50 percent of the base -- or 25 acres, if this is larger. Two rates of diversion payment are offered. The lower rate applies to the first 20 percent of the feed grain base actually diverted. The higher rate applies to diverted acreage in excess of the minimum. If both the intended diversion and the acreage actually diverted are equal to at least 40 percerit of the base, the higher rate applies to the entire acreage diverted. New provisions in the 1965 program include (1) an opportunity to substitute feed grains for wheat or wheat for feed grains by growers who take part in both programs, and
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