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HOW strongly will farmers' 1975 acreage plans be influenced by the mix of high market prices, hefty demand and short stocks, and another year without a traditional farm support program?
A wide range survey set for the first of the year b> the l. S. Department of Agriculture will identify producers' current acreage plans for planting ten major crops this coming spring. A similar survey a year ago saw acreage gains planned for- feed grains, cotton, and sugarbeets, but declines for soybeans and flaxseed.
Handling the project again will be LSDA's Statistical Reporting Service through its field offices in 35 principal producing States. The States covered in the survey accounted for well over 90 percent of all acreage planted last season to corn, sorghum, oats, barley, soybeans, flaxseed, cotton, rice, durum and other spring wheat, and sugarbeets. Excluded from the survey will be the six
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