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on enrolled farms this year, 72,344,537 acres are corn base, 21,129,301 acres represent grain sorghum base, and 13,878,466 acres are barley base.
The corn base exceeds the record final total of 72,043,493 acres set in 1971; that for barley compares with a 1969 record final total of 13,176,056 acres; and the 1972 sorghw*) base compares with the 1971 record total of 21, - 342,356 acres.
Barley was not included in the 1971 program. Feed grain base acreage of farms listed on registers, but whose enrollment was not completed in time for this preliminary final report, totals about 608 thousand acres, of which corn represents 394 thousand acres, sorghum, 54 thousand acres and barley, 160 thousand. □
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