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Feed Grain Offers
Advance Payments
Advance payments will continue under ’68 commodity programs. Advance payments to farmers participating in the feed grain program will be continued in 1968.
To obtain an advance payment, farmers may apply for It at the time they sign up to participate in the program. The signup began February 5 and will continue through March 15, 1968. Mr. H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, explains that the advance payment will be 50 percent of the feed grain acreage diversion payment. Advance payments will not be made on wheat marketing certificates or on feed grain price support payments. Under the feed grain program, diversion payments on the larger farms will be made on acreage withheld from corn or grain sorghum production above the qualifying 20percent of the base. This additional diversion may total up to 50 percent of the base, or 25 acres, whichever is larger. The diversion payment rate per acre will be 45 percent of the total local price support (county loan rate plus the price-support payment) times the yield. (The total, local price support in Rappahannock County is $1.54 per bushel for corn and $2.23 per hundredweight for sorghum.) For the larger farms, no diversion payment will be made on the qualifying 20 percent. Special provisions continue to be available for small farms. If the farm has a feed grain base of 25acres or less, the diversion payment will be approximately 20 percent of the total local support times the yield on the fir6t 20 percent of the base and at the regular 45 percent payment rate on the remaining acreage diverted to conserving uses. As in 1967, producers with corn-grain sorghum bases up to 125 acres will have the option in 1968 of temporarily reducing their bases to 25 acres and being eligible for the small-farm provisions. Under these circumstances, feed grain cannot be planted on the farm If the grower is to remain eligible for program benefits.
Rapp-Chats
By W. H. Lyne About 95 bulls will sell at the Performance Tested Sale to be held at Culpeper March 8, at 12 noon. A. L. Eller, Jr., Assistant Extension Livestock Specialist, Virginia Tech, says, "We think they're the best we’ve tested in 10 years." A complete performance record (through 112 days of the 140 day test) is available for your inspection at this office. Should you want a copy of the brochure for keeps, write either Dave Leonard, Secretary Virginia Angus Association, P. O. Box 196, Charlottes ville, Virginia or Burton Eller Secretary, Virginia Hereford Association, Echols Building, Staunton, Virginia. There are ten Rappahannock bulls included in the test!
Hog Sale is tomorrow at Culpeper Enterprises - Show at 10 a.m. SaJe starts at 1 p.m. Randall Updike will offer some of his nice Hamps; a couple open gilts and a young boar. 1 Other breeds included in the offering areDurocs, Black and
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