—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 14.1968
10
Wheat
(Continued from Page 1)
grain similar to that available in
1968. There will be diversion
payments for diverting acreage
from wheat below the farm allot
ment. The 1969 program again
provides for pHce support loans,
marketing certificates and übsti
tution between wheat and feed
grains.
Wheat farmers who wish to
receive income under the wheat
program should sign up and
then plant wheat, divert addi
tional acreage or use the substi
tution provisions in accordance
with the program. Wheat history
on land signed up in the Crop
land Adjustment Program, Crop
land Conversion Program, Con
servation Reserve, and Great
Plains Program is protected.
Program Options
The 1969 wheat program of
fers several options. These are:
1. You can sign up, divert to
conserving use an acreage equal
to 15% of your 1969 farm allot
ment, and plant wheat on all
your wheat allotment acres.
2. You can elect to plant less
than your full allotment, earn
diversion payments and qualify
for domestic marketing certifi
cates. By planting 43 percent of
your allotment and meeting oth
er program requirements, you
can qualify for the maximum of
certificates.
3. You can sign up to over
plant your allotment by up to 50
percent, store the excess produc
tion, and be eligible for market
ing certificates and price support
loan on the wheat not stored
4 You can substitute wheat
for feed grains (corn and grain
sorghum) on a farm if you sign
up and participate in both pro
grams.
' 5 If your farm has an oats-rye
or barley base, you can, upon re
quest at signup, also become el
igible to substitute wheat for
oats-rye or barley by diverting to
conserving uses 15 percent of
the oats-rye or barley base. Nei
ther diversion payments nor
price support payments are
available for oats-rye or barley.
"When you substitute wheat for
oats-rye or barley, you will lose
wheat program benefits unless
you (1) participate in the feed
grain program if you have a feed
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grain base, or (2) produce no
corn or grain sorghum if you
have no feed grain base.
0. You can elect to substitute
feed grain for wheat if you sign
up and participate in both pro
grams provided you are not sub
stituting wheat for barley or
oats-rye. Payment tar the diver
sion will be made at the diver
sion rate for the crop actually
diverted.
Program Benefits
Farmers who sign up and
qualify are eligible for these
benefits: , l >
1. Price support loans on their
entire farm wheat production
(except any stored excess
wheat). The national average
loan is $1.25 a bushel.
2. Diversion payments for di
verting below the farm allot-
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ment. Rati< are based upon 80
percent of the county wheat loan
rate times the farm’s projected
yield. Maximum diversion for
payment will be the larger of SO
percent of the allotment or the
difference between 25 acres and
the non-payment diversion
facreage equal to 15 percent of
the farm allotment) but not to
exceed the farm allotment.
3. Domestic marketing certffi-*
cates on 43 percent of the pro
jected production of the farm al
lotment. Certificates will be is
sued for about 520 million bush
els, the expected domestic food
use for 1868. The law requires
domestic certificates to be issued
for no more than the expected
domestic food use. These certifi
cates will be valued at the differ
ence between full wheat parity
and the $1.25 per bushel nation
al average loan value. Parity for
wheat in May 1968, was $2.63
per bushel.
Marketing Certificate Sharing
Funds for marketing certifi-
FAST
MANURE
per Minute
cnte* will be divided among aubstitution option when used,
landlord and tenants as they 4. Keep within nil other allot
share In the 1909 wheat crop, ments established for the par
unless a different distribution tlcipatlng farm. *
can be Justified and is approved 5. Keep within the wheat allot
by the ASC State Committee, mcnt or permitted acreage on
any other farm In which you
have an interest.
6. Certify compliance with the
program and carry out your
agreement.
1. Sign up with the ASCS
county office during a signup pe
riod which will be announced.
2. Have an acreage of wheat
no larger than your allotment
(or no larger than' permitted
acreage if you use the substitu
tion, additional diversion or ex
cess acreage options).
3. Maintain the farm conserv
ing base. In addition,, put to con
serving use wheat acreage di
verted, without payment, wheat
acreage diverted for payment,
an(J acreage diverted from oats
rye> or barley bases under the
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