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Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) State Director Roie M. Godsey is directing FmHA district directors and county supervisors throughout the state to encourage Virginia farmers to seriously consider participating in the new Paymentin-Kind (PIK) or “crop swap”, program.
State Director Godsey, who just returned from a Department of Agriculture briefing in Washington, said he is “thoroughly convinced that the PIK program can go a long way toward solving surplus grain problems and easing the cost-price squeeze, while at the time time, holding down federal spending.”
The meeting in Washington, Godsey said, was called by Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block. It included comments by the Secretary and detailed briefings by Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) Administrator Everett Rank and FmHA Ad
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