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Feed Grain Program
Benefits Detailed
Growers who participate in the 1965 feed grain program will have definite advantages over growers who elect not to participate, according to H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee.
First, he explained, the diversion payment earned for reducing the farm’s 1965 acreage of corn, barley, or grain sorghum, assures the participating grower of a substantial income from the diverted acres, regardless of drought, flood, insects, hail, or crop disease. This is also true of the price-support payment which is made on the acreage planted in 1965 to one or more of the three feed grains--no matter what disposition is made of the crop, the price-support payment is assured. And, third, price support is available through loans and ^purchases on the participating farmer’s entire 1965 production of the three feed grains Furthermore, the Chairman added, if the farm operator requests it, an advance payment of one-half of the estimated diversion payment will be made at the time of signing up or as soon as possible after that time. Growers take part in the feed grain program by diverting at least 20 percent of the farm’s feed grain base acreage into an approved conserving use and carrying out other provisions of the program. If more than the minimum acre
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