1958 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve
Program Announced by Government
General provisions of the Soil
Bank’s 1958 Acreage program, in
cluding its application to tho
winter wheat crop which will be
planted this fall, were announced
Saturday by Acting Secretary of
Agriculture True D. Morse follow
ing Congressional action author
izing continuance of the program
for the coming year.
The Acreage Reserve is that
part of the Soil Bank under which
farmers agree to reduce their
acreage of “basic” crops below
their established acreage allot
ments. It was in effect on a limited
basis in 1956, and for the full
1957 crop-year. The Conservation
Reserve, the other Soil Bank pro
gram, calls for shifting general
cropland to conservation uses un
der contracts running for three or
more years.
Changes in Acreage Reserve
provisions for 1958, as compared
with previous years, include the
following:
1. Establishment of a total crop
acreage figure for each farm,
to be based primarily on past
production history and known
as the “Soil Bank base,” with
the requirement that total har
vested acreage in 1958 be held
below the “base” by the equiv
alent of the number of acres!
placed in the Soil Bank. (This
“Soil Bank base” provision has
been in effect for the Conser
vation Reserve since the be
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1958, it will apply to farms tak
ing part in either or both of
the Soil Bank programs).
2- A limit of $3,000 on the total
of 1958 Acreage Reserve pay
ments which can be made to
any one producer, as required
by legislative action.
Commenting on the announce
ment of the 1958 program, Acting
Secretary Morse said, “The Acre
age Reserve is an emergency pro
gram to encourage needed adjust
ments in the production of sur
plus crops. It provides special pay
ments to offset loss of net profits
while the adjustments arc being
made.
“The primary objective of the
Acreage Reserve, of course, is to
help cut down the
surpluses which are such a load
on the back of agriculture. In
carrying out the program for
1958, we want to make major
progress toward this goal. Based
on experience of the past twoi
years, we are making announced
changes in operating procedures
to increase the effectiveness of
the program.
“One major problem has been,
the tendency to shift production
from Acreage Reserve crops to
other crops which contribute to
over-all surpluses. The Soil Bank
base provision, with its limit on.
total harvested crops, will help
to check this undesirable diver
sion.
“We regret the need to impose
further controls on farm produc
ton, adding limitations to make
other limitations work. In the
present emergency, however, we
must try to make the Acreage Re
serve more effective in adjusting
1958 production.
“This tightening up of the pro
gram is in line with recommenda
tions made by the Senate and
House conferees, in their report
on the Department’s 1958 ap
propriation bill ”
Crops making up the “Soil Bank
base” will, in general, be all crops
produced for harvest on a farm,
except hay crops. In addition to
the six “basic” crops, they will
include among others such crops
as the grains, annual grasses cut
for seed, oilseeds, cowpeas, po
tatoes, commercial vegetables,
field and canning peas and beans
The Soil Bank -base for individ
ual farms will be established by
county ASC committees primarily
on the basis of the average acre
age of land devoted to Soil Bank
base crops during the past twoi
years 1956 and 1957 Where a
farm already has a “base” estab
lished under the Conservation-Re
serve program, that base will ap
ply
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In the Acreage Reserve agree
ment, participating farmers will
agree to limit their harvest of
Soil Bank base crops. The limit,
called the “permitted acreage,”
will be determined by subtracting
the number of acreas in the Acre
age Reserve from the total in the
Soil Bank base. (Provisions of the
Conservation Reserve program
also call for reductions below the
Soil Bank base. If both programs
are in effect on a farm, the re*
quired reduction in harvested
acres, below the Soil Bank base,
will be the total of the acres in
the Acreage Reserve and the Con
servation Reserve for that year).
Harvesting more total acreage
from a farm than the “permitted
acreage” will make the producer
subject to a civil penalty, in addi
tion to the loss of Acreage Re
serve payment. The civil penalty
is 50 per cent of the payment
which would have been made for
compliance with all provisions of
the program. (This is the same
civil penalty which applies if the
producer permits grazing of the
Acreage Reserve, take a crop
from it that year, or harvests
more acres of the “Acreage Re
serve” crop than the difference)
between the farm allotment and
the Acreage Reserve).
In accordance with legislative
provision, not more than $3,000 in
Acreage Reserve payments for
3958 can be made to any one pro
ducer. If acreage of two or more,
eligible basic commodities is put
into the Acreage Reserve, the
$3,000 limit applies to the total of
all Acreage Reserve payments.
This limit does not include pay
ments under the Conservation Re
serve program. There is a separ
ate limit of $5,000 in the total of
Conservation Reserve annual pay
ments which can be made in any
one year If a producer puts acre
age from the farm in both the
Acreage Reserve and the Conser
vation Reserve, he could be eligi
ble for payments up to $3,000 and
$5,000, respectively or a total
of $B,OOO for the year.
Individual payment rates for
the 1958 Acreage Reserve will be
determined primarily on the basis
of average per-acre rates -For
each reserve crop except tobacco,
there will be a “national” aver
age rate of payment per acre
Then state and county rates will
be established These will vary
in accordance with productivity
and other factors, but in total will
reflect the “national” rate. For
tobacco, individual rates will be
determined on the same basis as
for 1957 the established unit
late per pound multiplied by the
yield figure/for the farm.
County ASC committees will
determine per-acre rates for in
dividual farms. These will be'
based on the county “average”
rate for all crops except tobacco,
but they will vary among farms
primarily according to relative,
productivity
The individual farm per-acre
rates will be available before,
Acreage Reserve agreements are
signed. There will be provision
for appeals to county and State
ASC offices if a producer is not
satisfied with the per-acre rate —■
or with the “Soil Bank base” es
tablished for his farm.
Farmers who took part in the
1957 Acreage Reserve program
will be paid a 10 per cent pre
mium, above the 1958 compensa
tion rates, if they put the identi
cal land in the Acreage Reservei
program for 1958.
In addition to the provision that
noxious weeds must be controlled
on Acreage Reserve land, partici
pants in the 1958 program may
also be required to control ero
sion Otherwise, the land desig
nated for the Acreage Reserve
may be le f t idle, or a soil or water
conservation practice may be car
ried out on it. It is possible for
participating farmers to qualify
for Agricultural Conservation!
(ACP) cost-sharing practices on
land in the Acreage Reserve.
After the deadline for signing 1
agreements covering a particular
crop under the Acreage Reserve
for 1958, participating farmers
will not be permitted to withdraw
from the program, except in some
cases involving “new” commercial
corn counties.
The 1958 Acreage Reserve pro
gram will be available first for
winter wheat, to be seeded this
fall for harvest next year. Details
of the program for spring-seeded
crops (spring wheat and the other
Lancaster Farming, Friday, August 9, 1957—13
basic crops which are eligible
for the program) will be an
nounced before their signup per
lor next spring.
The information needed by
ASC county committees in deter
mining individual farm rates of
payment under the 1958 wheat
Acreage Reserve program and
completing other preliminary
work, was sent from Washington
through State committees in ad
vance. County committees in gen
eral will be in position next week
to start notifying, farmers regard
ing these payment rates, and also
helping to determine the Soil
Bank base which must be estab
lished for each farm before the
signing of agreements With this
information available, wheat far
mers will be able to make plansi
for their Acreage Reserve parti
cipation.
The signup period for winter
wheat is scheduled to open on
Aug. 26 and close Oct. 4 this
year. During this period, all far
mers who have an “old farm”
wheat acreage allotment for 1958,
and who normally grow winter
wheat, will be eligible to sign an
Acreage Reserve agreement with
their county ASC committee.
Before the signing of an agree
ment, however, a “farm Soil Bank
base” must be established for the
farm. Each producer is responsi
ble for furnishing the county ASO
committee the production history
and other information heeded to
establish this base This informa
tion should be supplied at least
15 days before the end ’of the
signup period
The “national” average rate for
the 1958 Acreage Reserve will be
$20.88 per acre with available
wheat price supports averaging
$1 78 a bushel This rate will be
translated into varying state,
county, and individual farm per
acre rates For the 1957 wheat
Acreage Reserve, the average rate
of payment per acre available to
producers on a national basis was
approximately $2O 04 per acre
with wheat price supports aver
aging $2 00 a bushel The average
payment for those who actually
signed agreements for 1957 was
about $lB, reflecting the fact that
the land put in the reserve was
of less than average yield
Except for the legislative lim
itation of $3,000 on the total of
Acreage Reserve payments to any
one producer, no limits are placed
cn the number of acres which
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A poultry barbeque is being
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Community Center to raise funds
for the Lampeter Community
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The barbeque is scheduled for
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Roy B. Herr is chap man of the
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age Reserve, $l7B million will be
allocated to the wheat Acreage
Reserve for both spring and
winter wheat.
. In acceptance of agreements,,
preference will be given to those
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