12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 23, 1956
Price Support Levels Announced
For Corn Under 1957 Alternates
WASHINGTON (USDA)
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taff'feenson Nov 14 announced
price support levels and ielated
determinations which would ap
ply under alternate corn pio
grams for 1957 production
‘ The U. S Department of Agri
culture announced on Fuday.
November 9, that com glowers
would vote in a referendum Dec
11 to determine whether Soil
Hank coin base acreages or corn
acreage allotments would be
used in the 1957 program.
If two-thirds or more of the
farmers who vote in the refer
endum favor base acreages,
they will be in effect next
year. If more than one-third
favor acreage allotments, they
will be in effect.
The Department also announc
ed on Friday that the national
corn acreage allotment for the
894 designated commercial corn
producing counties would be 37,-
288,889 acres, if allotments are
used- The corn base acreage for
the same commercial counties, as
set by the controlling legislature,
would be 51 million acres
The further determinations
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announced today are
1 If the base acreage pro
gram is approved, 51 million
acres, puce support will be avail
able in the commercial counties
at a “national” average of $1.31
per bushel.
2 If the acreage allotment
program is approved, 37,288,889
acres, price support will be avail
able in the commercial counties
at a “national” average of $1 36
per bushel This price support
level is determined by the foi
muia of the law which applies
when acreage allotments for
corn are in effect
3 There are no plans to of
fer price support for 1957 corn
production which is not in com
pliance with acreage allotments
or Soil Bank provisions Such
“non-compliance” price supports
were available in 1956 because
of special conditions
4 The unit rate for deter
mining payments under the corn
Acreage Reserve program of the
Soil Bank in 1957 will be 90
cents per bushel, the same as
for this year.
“With the determinations
which have now been announc
ed”, Secretary Benson said,
“farmers will have all the es
sential information before vot
ing in the December 11 referen
dum This will be an important
decision. It will determine the
sort of corn program which will
be available m 1957 and later
years.
“The corn supply available
for 1956-57 has reached an all
time record level of 4,579,000,-
000 bushels. A near-record
1956 crop, estimated at 3,413,-
000,000 bushels, was added to
a record carryover of 1,166,-
000,000 bushels of com pro
duced in former years. This
huge supply is directly respon
sible for the further drop in
the national corn acreage allot
ment and the ‘allotment* price
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“The coin programs have not
worked out well in the past. Be
cause such a large proportion of
the crop is either fed on the
farm where produced or mar
keted in the immediate area, the
kind of marketing quotas which
are used for other basic crops
have not proved feasible for corn
Goth marketing quotas are not
authorized by legisla
tion.
“Even more important, corn
acreage allotments have not been
effective either as a way for
individual farmers to qualify for
price support, or as a means to
secure production adjustments
“The national corn acreage
allotment has dropped sharply
in recent jears. There is no
"minimum’ level no floor
under the corn allotment no
matter how big the supply be
comes
“The corn allotment for
commercial counties was 49.8
million acres in 1955. With a
bigger total suoply of corn
that year, the allotment drop
ped to, 43.3 million acres in
1956. Next year, if allotments
are in effect, the total allot
ment under the formula of the
law can be only 37.3 million
acres and this will have to
be spread over 894 commer
cial counties, 54 more than in
1956.
“With the cut-back m total
allotments, the share for each
individual farmer has also had
ito be reduced to the point
where many farmers have found
that it was not practicable to
comply with them Even in 1955,
with a relatively high total al
,r‘fment, only about 51 per cent
of the corn produced in com
mercial counties was grown in
compliance with allotments.
Compliance would undoubtedly
have been much less this year
if the lower allotment had re
mained in effect It was replaced
by the 51 million base acreage
provided in the Soil Bank legisla
tion.
“With an even smaller allot
ment to cover more counties in
1957, it is obvious that most
farmers would find that limiting
com production to their allotted
acres would not fit in with sound
farm management. Relatively few
would be able to comply.
“When acreage allotments are
operative, eligibility for price
support depends on compliance
with the established farm al
lotments. As allotments have
been reduced, increasing num
bers of farmers in, commercial
counties-have in effect been bar-
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red from price support ,
“This is the basic situation
which underlies the Legislative
provision which Congress pro
vided for a referendum this
, December on alternate corn
programs. Farmers have the
choice of continuing the base
acreage which has been in ef
fect this year, or going back
to an acreage allotment. Under
base acreages, they will have
a higher level from which to
measure both price support
eligibility and Soil > Bank par
ticipation.
“If the base acreages are in
effect, the price 'support level
will be determined each year on
the basis of the general situa
tion as it was this year when
the available support for 1957
production was set at an aver
age of $1 31 per bushel. Eligibil
ity for price support will depend
on producing within the indivi
dual farm base acreage, and tak
ing part in the Soil Bank to the
extent required.
“If acreage allotments are in
effect, the price support will be
determined each year as provid
ed by law within a mandatory
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parity. Eligibility will depend
upon compliance with the faim
allotment, whether or not the
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“There have been questions
about the possibility of ‘non
comphanca’ corn price suppoit
again in 1957. Corn in commer
cial counties which was not pro
duced in compliance with acre
age allotment or Soil Bank pro
visions this year was made eligi
ble for price support at an aver
age of $l-25 a bushel, as com
pared with the full support of
$1 50 a bushel.
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steps were taken to help
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