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Rappahannock News
Early Next Week
The Rappahannock News will be published one day early next week in view of the Thanksgiving holiday. All news and advertising must be in the Rappahannock News Office by 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon if it is to be included in the November 27th issue of the paper.
ASC Farm Programs
Prevent Surpluses
Farmers participating in three major Federal farm programs in 1970 will keep some 100 million acres of farmland in soil-protecting uses and out of production of surplus crops. No Government payments will be made for this. H. S. Barksdale, Chairman of the Rappahannock County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, said taxpayers may not realize the extent of the contributions farmers themselves made toward easing the problem of surplus farm crops. He cited the ‘conserving base’ which is set for each farm signed up in the wheat, cotton and feed grain programs.
The conserving base is the number of acres a farmer must have in conserving uses on his farm. That is, the acres must be used in ways that protect the soil. No crops may be grown that would add to those already in surplus. The Government does not pay the farmer for this conserving base. It is one of the conditions the farmer accepts when he participates in one or more of the wheat, cotton, or feed grain voluntary adjustment programs.
The 100 million conserving base acres in the United States are about 23 percent of all the cropland.
A farm’s conserving base is set by the County ASC Committee just as the cotton and wheat allotments and feed grain base are set by the county committee. All are determined on the basis of a
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