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Tom Taylor of the ACSC office here reports a successful acceptance of the Payment-in-Kind (PIK) program in Rappahannock.
Farmers in the PIK program agree to take a percentage of their fields out of production of certain grains in return for grain from surplus stockpiles, to be sold in the farmer’s name or given to him for his own use.
In the wheat program, 12 out of 15 farmers signed up, assigning 149.9 acres of the total Rappahannock wheat acreage of 363.3 for conservation use.
Thirty-four out of 104 corn farmers signed up, putting 1,078 out of 2,855.4 acres into conservation use.
Cropland taken out of production by the Paymentin-Kind and other land diversion farm programs will
86.4%