6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 8, 1972
Wheat Producers Slated for $ 1.28 Per Bushel Preliminary Payment
Wheat producers will receive
$1 28 per bushel m preliminary
payment on their 1972 crop, the
U. S Department of Agriculture
announced recently.
The preliminary payment will
be made as soon as practicable,
probably early July, and
amounts to 75 per cent of the
estimated face value of domestic
wheat certificates
The final face value of the
certificates will be the difference
between 100 per cent of the J'.ly 1,
1972, parity price per bushel and
the national average price
received by farmers for wheat
from July through November.
Final certificate payments will
be made after Dec. 1.
For 1971-crop wheat, the total
certificate payment was $1.63 per
bushel based on July 1, 1971
parity of $2.93 per bushel and a
five-month average price of $1.30
per bushel. The preliminary
certificate payment was $1.20 per
bushel and the final payment was
43 cents per bushel.
The feed grain payment rates
as previously established and
announced are 40 cents per
bushel for corn, 38 cents per
Emergency Conservation
Funds Earmarked for 20
Counties in Pennsylvania
The U. S Department of
Agriculture last week offered
emergency conservation
assistance in 20 counties m
Pennsylvania to help repair
severe flooding damage. The
counties tre Bradford, Clear
field, (olumbia, Dauphin,
Huntingc -n, Juniata, Lancaster,
Luzerne Lycoming, Mifflin,
Northumberland, Perry,
Schuykill, Snyder, Somerset,
Susquehanna, Tioga, Union,
Wyoming and York
An initial allocation of $300,000
has been amde to the Penn
sylvania agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
(ASC) State Committee for use in
sharing with farmers in the 20
counties the cost of removing
debris from farmland, replacing
and repairing fences, grading
and shaping of eroded land areas,
and repairing ponds, terraces
and diversion ditches
Emergency conservation
assistance is designed to enable
the Secretary of Agriculture to
alleviate conditions resulting
from a natural disaster and to
restore agricultural lands to
productive capacity.
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bushel for grain sorghum, and 32
cents per bushel for barley.
These rates are paid on the
established farm yield times one
half the corn, grain sorghum, or
barley base. They are equal to a
payment rate of 80 cents, 76 cents
and 64 cents per bushel on the 25
per cent qualifying set-aside.
Feed grain payments based on
such rates will be made to
producers as soon as practicable.
Participants in the 1972 feed
grain program are guaranteed a
national average of $1.35 per
bushel for corn, or 70 per cent of
parity on Oct. 1, 1972, whichever
is larger. The guaranteed
average price for grain sorghum
and barley will be proportionate
to corn considermg feed value
relationship. If market conditions
are such that final payments are
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" due feed grain producers, they
will be made after March 1,1973.
Total payments due producers
for voluntary additional feed
grain and wheat set-aside
acreage will also be made as soon
after July 1 as practicable. The
payment rates for voluntary set
aside are 94 cents per bushel for
wheat, 80 and 52 cents per bushel
for corn, 76 and 49 cents per
bushel for grain sorghum and 42
cents per bushel for barley. The
higher payment rates for com
and grain sorghum will apply on
those farms that elected to
reduce their 1972 corn-sorghum
acreage below 1971 plantings by
twice the amount of voluntary
set-aside.
Preliminary payments under
the three major commodity
programs will be made to about
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2.5 million farmers and will total
approximately $3.5 billion, USDA
reported. Refund will not' be
required if the preliminary
payment proves to be higher than
the full payment due the farmer.
The commodity program
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payments are made to reimburse
farmers for the costs of setting
aside productive cropland acres
and to help assure a return to
farmers sufficient to maintain
the productivity of U.S.
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