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1967 Feed Grain
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The 4967 feed grain program — except for a few basic changes will be the Bame as In previous years, H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, said today. Basic changes will be a higher loan rate, higher total price support, and the elimination of voluntary diversion for payments except on small farms for which diversion payments earned may be higher than in 1966. The chairman pointed out that the program will encourage farmers to divert from 15 to 18 million acres in 1967, compared with :30 million acres of corn and grain sorghum land diverted in 1966. (As announced previously, bat ley is not included in the 1967 feed grain program.) Loan rates for the two grains are increased for 1967 — 5 cents for corn and 9 cents for sorghum — and the pricesupport payment rates stay the same as for 1966. For corn, this means a price
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