B32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 27,1982
Block announces wheat, feed
grain program provisions
KANSAS CITY, MO
Secretary of Agriculture John R.
Block recently implemented and
outlined the provisions for a
voluntary 15 percent acreage
reduction program for the 1982
wheat crop. He also said USDA
would allow immediate entry ot
the 1982 crop into the farmer
owned gram reserve.
To become eligible tor govern
ment price support loans, target
price protection and the farmer
owned reserve program, farmers
must reduce their plantings 15
percent from an established base.
No direct payments will be made
for the acreage reduction.
The target price for 1982 wheat
will be $4.05 per bushel. Loan rates
will be $3.55 per bushel for gram
placed under the regular loan
program and $4 per bushel for 1982-
crop wheat entered into the far
mer-owned reserve.
Fanners can enter the 1982 crop
immediately into the reserve
without waiting for their regular
loans to mature. USDA storage
payments will be 2BVa cents per
bushel for wheat placed in the
reserve. Wheat will be released
from the reserve when the average
price received by fanners reaches
$4.65 per bushel.
Block said U.S. wheat supplies
are 14 percent above last year and
next June’s carryover is expected
to be nearly 1 billion bushels. This
is the result of two successive
record U.S. wheat crops and a
record-setting 1981 world harvest.
Block said the reduced acreage
program coupled with an
aggressive export program will
strengthen prices by reducing the
1982-83 marketing year supplies.
Participating farmers must
reduce their acreage of wheat
planted tor harvest by at least 15
percent from an established wheat
base. Generally, the base will be
the higher of either the 1981 wheat
acreage or the average of the 1980-
81 wheat acreages. However, tor
farms that have been following a
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definite crops rotation pattern, the
base will reflect such rotations,
The acreage taken from
production must be devoted to
conservation usees. For example,
a farmer with a 1981 planted
acreage of 100 acres must plant no
more than 85 acres ot wheat for
1982 harvest, tor program
eligibility. The remaining 15 acres
U 7-65 percent ot 85 acres J must be
devoted to conservation.
It the farmer plants fewer than
the permitted 85 acres, he or she
will be permitted to devote fewer
acres to conservation. For
example, it only 50 acres are
planted, only 8.8 acres (17.65
percent of 30) will have to go to
conservation.
The land taken from production
and devoted to conservation must
be eligible cropland protected
from wind and water erosion.
Acreage which has already been
planted to wheat, and then
designated as reduced acreage,
may be cut for hay or grazed.
Otherwise, acreage designated
to meet the conservation
requirement may not be
mechanically harvested and
grazing will not be permitted
during the six prmcipal growing
months. No payments will be made
for land devoted to conservation.
At the same time, John R. Block
announced a voluntary 10 percent
reduced acreage program tor 1982-
crop feed grams. He also an
nounced that 1982 feed grams may
be entered immediately into the
farmer-owned reserve.
Block said a member of market
factors, including the record 1981
U.S. corn harvest of 8.2 billion
bushels and instability in the ex
port market, make the reduced
acreage program advisable. Feed
gram supplies are about 13 percent
above last year. Corn carryover at
the beginning of the next
marketing year (Oct. 1,1982; could
be around 2 billion bushels, the
largest since 1960.
Only those who participate will
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be eligible tor program benefits
such as target price protection and
Commodity Credit Corporation
commodity loans.
Participating farmers must
reduce their acreage planted to
teed grains (barley, corn, oats,
sorghum ) by at least 10 percent
from the established feed grain
bases. Two bases will be
established—one for corn and
sorghum; the second tor barley
and oats. Generally, the bases will
be the higher pt the 1081 base
average or the average ot the 1980-
81 base acreagers. However, for
farms that have been following a
definite rotation pattern, the bases
will reflect such rotations.
Participating producers will
receive the following target price
(per bushel) protection: corn,
$2.70; sorghum, $2.60; barley,
$2.60; oats, $1.50. Participants will
be eligible for the following CCC
loan rates: corn, $2.55; sorghum,
$2.42; barley, $2.06; oats, $1.31.
Here is an example of how the
programs will work. A farmer with
a base of 100 acres must pant no
more than 90 acres of feed grams
tor 1982 harvest. The 10 acres
reduced (11.11 percent ot 90 acres)
must be devoted to a conservation
use. Farmers planting less than
the full 90 acres to feed grams
would be permitted to devote fewer
acres to conservation. It only 50
acres were planted, only 5.55 acres
(11.11 percent of 50) would have to
go to conservation.
The land taken trom production
and devoted to conservation uses
must be eligible cropland and
protected from wind and water
erosion. The land may not be
mechanically harvested. Farmers
will be permitted to graze this
acreage, except during the six
principal growing months.
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Editor's Note; This is the 12th of a
series of articles on swine health. This
article was written by Dr. Henry W.
Kulp, Sectional Veterinarian of the
Animal Plant Health Inspection
Service. It deals with the problem o(
proper disposal of dead animals.
Disposing of Dead Animals
Many times we are tempted to
believe laws and regulations are
something to be tolerated and are
potentially restraining. However,
when we examine it and give it
some thought, we find many are
useful and we can apply them to
relieve a serious situation.
One law which comes to mind is
the “Dead Animal Law.”
One of the ways of bringing an
infection or disease to a farm is a
carcass dragged there by a
predator or dogs. This can easily
happen when the carcasses of
piglets are put out m the field along
with manure.
If this problem exists in your
neighborhood, and if it continues to
exist after speakmg with the of
fender and making a sincere effort
to stop the practice of improper
disposal of carcasses, there is
•good old’ Pennsylvania Act #317
which was enacted m May 1945.
The act stales: "No person
carmg for or uwnmg an anunal
that has died shall allow the car
cass to he about his premise. Such
Block said that 1982 feed gram
placed under CCC loan would be
eligible for immediate entry into
the farmer-owned gram reserve at
loan levels higher than for regular
CCC loans.
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carcass shall be disposed of within
tourty-eight hours after death by
burying, burning or by disposition
within said tune to a person
engaged in the disposing of the
bodies of dead animals. ’ ’
Here we have a regulation that
can be helpful when a difficult
situation arises. It is regulation
you have to bring to the attention of
the offender. The choices are to
bury, burn or take the carcass to
the rendering plant.
Bury does not mean just
scratching enough dirt to cover the
carcass. It means that the carcass
shall be covered with at least two
feet of ground and not be ac
cessible to dogs or other animals.
It also means burying the carcass
at least one hundred feet from any
water course, well, spring, public
highway, house or spring.
Burning can be a real task. It is
surprising the amount of heat,
tune and effort it takes to com
pletely burn a carcass. Any un
burned portions must be buried.
If the solution to the problem is
taking the carcass to the rendering
plant remember to transport the
carcass in a good, tight drum or a
vehicle which will not drip. Do not
forget to thoroughly wash and
disinfect all equipment used.
And you should think twice
before inviting a potential infected,
dripping truck onto your farm;
perhaps you can arrange for
carcasses to be picked up at the
end of the lane or at some other
appropriate location.
No one wants livestock losses but
they do occur. Let’s all do our part
when it comes to proper disposal of
losses. .