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At a meeting in Harrisonburg on July 13, Congressman J. Kenneth Robinson told members of the Rockingham Farm Bureau that he “.will support an amendment during the next week’s House debate on the farm bill to make disaster payments for 1977 wheat and corn apply to planted acreage rather than to allotments.”
“It makes a whole lot more sense to make disaster payments based on the actual acreage planted rather than on an outmoded, unrealistic allotment assigned by the government some years back on a smaller acreage, and kit would be of much- gre&Sr help to corn growers who have lost their crops in this year's drought,” Robinson observed. “I hope we’re successful in enacting the amendment into law, particularly in view of the fact the proposed farm bill would make such a change anyway applicable in and after the 1978 crop year. “As our farmers are sadly discovering,” Robinson explained, ‘‘the disaster provisions of present farm law are wholly inadequate and inequitable. Crop insurance is not available. Under the present system, small farmers with marginal financial resources can be completely wiped out by a single year’s weather failure such as we’ve had in the
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