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Barley Included in
'69 Feed Program
An important change announced recently for the 1969 feed grain program makes barley one of the three feed grains to be included in the program next year, H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation dounty Committee, reminded farmers today. This means that barley as well as com and grain sorghum will be included in a farm’s feed grain base acreage if the farm has barley production history in 1959 or 1960. And any acreage devoted to barley in 1969 will be charged against the permitted acreage for the farm in determing participation in the program. The minimum diversion in order to qualify for benefits of the 1969 feed grain program has not been determined as yet, but it will be announced as soon as the program is formulated.
Tlie change also means that a grower participating in both programs who wants to substitute between wheat and any of these three feed grains -- com, grain sorghum, and barley - may do so within the limit of the farm’s total permitted acreage for all of these crops. Thus, there will no longer be any need for requesting that a special barley base be approved for a farm if the grower wishes to substitute wheat for barley.
Program provisions for substituting wheat for oats or rye in 1969 have not changed. This may be done if (1) the producer requests a special oats -rye base for his farm, (2) the county ASC committee approves the base, and (31 15 percent of the approved base is diverted to conserving uses. Wheat can then be substituted on any or all of the remaining oats-rye base. A producer whose farm has a feed grain p substitute
wheat for oats- rye provided he| also participates in the feed grain] program.
Chairman Barksdale said that j the recent decision to include barley in the 1969 feed grain program followed a reappraisal of the sharply changed barley supply situation. Unusually favorable weather in major production areas has boosted the estimated national average barley yield to a new all-time record of 42.5 bushels per acre. Total production thus would be nearly 15 percent above last year’s output. So the change in the 1969 program has been made to bring production next year back into line with needs.
2 Fire and Rescue \
/ Squad Notes ^
Rappahannock Rescue Squad took three victims from an accident Sunday on Route 211 to the Warren Memorial Hospital.
The Chester Gap Rescue Squad ambulance took Ivan Figgens from a residence on Route 522 to Warren Memorial Hospital on ■Saturday night.
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