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*65 Feed Grain
Payments Made
Payments to Rappahannock County growers participating in the 1965 Feed Crain Program are being made at the ASCS office. They cover both diversion and price-support payments. H. S. Barksdale, ASCS county chairman, estimates that total feed grain payments, including those made at time of spring signup, will be about $33,200.00 to Rappahannock County participants. This will substantially raise returns on 1965 feed grain crops. In addition, farmers participating in the feed grain program are eligible for loans on their 1965 crops of corn, grain sorghum, and barley. Diversion payments compensate a farmer for reducing corn, grain sorghum, or barley acreage by at least 20 percent below the farm’s base acreage (computed from 195960 acreage) and devoting the diverted acres to approved conservation use. The diversion payment is based on the normal yield for the farm times the per-bushel rate that applies to each grain. Price-support payments are made on the normal production of the acreage planted to each of the three feed grains in 1965. These are 20 cents per bushel for corn, 16 cents per bushel for barley, and 35 cents per hundredweight for grain sorghum. Payment is assured no matter what disposition is made of grain. When farmers signed last spring in the 1965 Feed Grain Program, they could receive in advance half the total estimated diversion payments. Payments being made now include the remaining diversion payment and all of the price
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