“How” Oatlines for

“How” Oatlines for

’67 Wheat Program

In the 1967 wheat program^ with acreage diversion provisions or diversion payments how will a farmer qualify for loans and certificates? H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, lines it up this way: A participating farmer will -

I. Sign up with the ASCS county office during the signup period to be announced later. 2. Have an acreage of wheat no larger than the farm allotment (or no larger than the acreage available for production under the program if he plans to use and signs up for the substitution or the excess-acreage option).' 3. Maintain the farm’s conserving base. (Conserving bases' will be reduced for 1967 so that the farm's Increased wheat allotment acreage may be utilized. 4. Keep within all other program allotments established for the participating farm. 5. Keep within the wheat allotment or •'permitted* acreage on any other farm in which such producer has an interest. If there is substitution between wheat and feed grains on the farm, keep within the feed grain (corn and grain sorghum) base on permitted acreage as well as the wheat allotment on any other farm in which the participating producer has an interest. Farm wheat allotments under the 1967 program have been increased to reflect the increase in the national wheat allotment, which boosted the total to 68.2 million acreS. This is 32 percent larger thin the 1966-crop effective allotment. The increased allotment will enable farmers who believe increased productibn will be profitable to plajit more land to wheat and still be eligible for full program benefits. Benefits under the 1967 wheat program will include price-support loans of $1.25 per bushel, national average, on the participating farm’sentire wheat production; and domestic marketing certificates on 35 percent of the farm allotment’s projected production, valued at the difference between $1.25 gnd parity fn July 1, 1967. \