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1968 Feed Grain
Payments to be Made
Growers participating in the 1908 feed grain program will begin getting final program payments soon after August 20, II. S. liarksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, said today. The payments will cover any unpaid part of the estimated diversion payment and the additional price support to growers who signed up and then met applicable provisions of the program. Growers could request that half of the estimated diversion payment be made in advance at the time of the signup last spring.
In total, these payments are intimated at about $24,755 for the expected 90 county I participants in the 19fiH feed jrain program. 'Itie payments will raise returns from the 1908 com and grain sorghum crops substantially. Farmers participating in the program are also eligible for loans on their entire 1908 production of the Lwo crops, national average loan rates are $1.05 per bushel for :orn and $1.01 per hundredweight for grain sorghum.
For the larger base farms, no diversion payment will be made ror diverting the minimum 20 percent of the farm base; payments for diverting more acreage than the minimum, up to he larger of 50 percent of the aase or 25 acres provided this is
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