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of the sign-up period for the 1972 feed grain and wheat programs. Signup continues through March 10 at the county ASCS Office.
Program participants who want measurement service usually request it when they sign up, since it is a convenient time. This year, Mr. Taylor said special consideration should be given to getting in early to sign up and to request set-aside inspection and early measurement. The service is provided at a nominal charge which covers the cost.
The quality guarantee for set-aside acreage is important because of the “average productivity” requirement for set-aside land, the ASC committee chairman said. Land designated for set-aside must have a productive capacity at least equal to the land on which program crops are grown this year — or the land on which program crops would have been grown. Failure to meet this requirement can result in reduction or loss of farm program payments.
Taylor also said that the local ASCS Office had been instructed not to accept for set-aside land any acreage which is known in advance to be far below average duality.
Under the Agricultural Act of 1970, which embodies the set-aside program, farmers participating in the voluntary feed grain and wheat programs may plant their cropland al
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