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In the hustle and bustle of; starting off a new calendar; year, farmers should not forV'
1967 Feed Grain Program,] cautioned H. S. Barksdale, Chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee. - The 4-week signup period begins February 6 and ends .March 3. The 1967 voluntary;
!program is similar to the'; ; program for 1966, although it lhas been strengthened in some jrespect^. The Chairman listed these changes: I —The price-support loan | rate has been increased. For i 1967-crop corn the rate is up ] 5 cents, from $1.00 to $1.05 jper bushel. The loan rate for jgrain sorghum is up proportionally--from $1.52 to $1.61 per hundredweight, i These changes will mean an ] average increase of about 5 ] percent in price support for ; 1967 - p a r t i c i p a n t s. They should provide a higher floor I price for the market, according to USDA program forecasters.
--The support payment rates continue at the 30-cent per bushel level for corn and 53 cents per hundredweight for grain sorghum production on 50 percent of the farmer’s base acreage. --The loan rate on barley is up from 80 cents per bushel to 90 cents, national average. "This rate is available to all producers on their entire acre age. Barley is not included in the feed grain program this year. Farmers who grow barley and also participate in the 1967 wheat program may arrange with the, county ASCS office to plant wheat as a substitute on barley base acres, on a full acre-for-acre basis. _ Chairman Barksdale also outlined some of the benefits that are continued in the 1967 program from preceding voluntary feed grain programs:
There will be advance payments. If a farmer wants to get‘the signup
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