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A producer whose farm conserving base is a limiting factor in operating his farm in line with good management practices may appeal for an adjustment of the base through the end of farm program signup, April 9. Three important provisions will be observed by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASCS) County committees in adjusting conserving bases for changes in farming operations, according to H. S. Barksdale, Chairman of the Rappahannock County ASC Committee. They are:
-(-Downward adjustment of a conserving base will be made only upon a determination that farm operations have changed from conserving crops to nonconserving crops in recent years, or in the judgment of the County committee, such a change will be made this year.
+Acreage removed from the conserving base will be limited to that determined to be suitable for continuous cropping.
-(-Downward adjustment will trot “tag •made'1 w toccommodate a farm’s required set-aside acreage under the 1971 farm programs.
Basically, the rules on conserving bases are being updated in line with modern farming operations. Today’s marketoriented farm policy requires that farmers have more freedom for decision-making about their farm operations. The set-aside farm programs of 1971 provide for this by getting away from the rigid crop limitations of previous programs.
Although adjustments have been made over the years for tangible changes in farm
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