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Feed Grain Signup
Deadline Nears
March 15 is the last day for filing applications to take part in the 1968 wheat and feed grain programs. Chairman H. S. Barksdale of the Rappahannock County A SC Committee reminds growers that price support will be available only to farmers who participate in these respective programs. Participation is necessary to obtain diversion payments for corn and grain sorghum. The national average pricesupport loan rate for 1968crop wheat is $1.25 per bushel, available onall the wheat produced on a participating farm. The marketing certificates will be valued at the difference between full wheat parity and the$1.25perbushel national average loan value; the certificates will be available on 40 percent of the projected production of the farm allotment. (For the 1967 wheat crop, domestic certificates were worth $1.36 per bushel.) Price-support loan levels under the 1968 program will be available to program partlcipatants at a national average of $1.05 per bushel for corn and a national average of $1.61 per hundredweight for sorghum. Price-support payments will be 30 cents per bushel for corn and 29.68 cents per bushel for sorghum, based on the planted acreage up to one-half the farm base times the projected yield. Mr. Barksdale urges farmers who have not yet signed in either the wheat or feed grain program to call at the ASCS county office as soon as possible before the March 15 deadline. Fourteen wheat growers in Rappahannock County have signed up under the 1968 wheat program. Fifty-two feed grain producers have signed up to divert 603.6 acres under the 1968 feed grain program.
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