D22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9,1982
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture John R,
Block recently announced a 10
percent acreage reduction and a 10
percent paid land diversion for the
1983 feed grain program. Block
also announced an additional $6O
million allocated to the fiscal 1983
farm storage facility loan program
beyond the $4O million originally
allocated.
Block said current law requires
for him to announce only a 10
percent, acreage reduction and 5
percent paid land diversion
program for feed grains. But, with
such large supplies, he said an
additional 5 percent paid diversion
would help bring supply more in
balance with demand.
“We must do everything passible
to reduce carryover supplies and
increase commodity prices,
Block said.
Block said the per bushel target
prices for 1983-crop fed grains will
be: com, $2.86; sorghum, $2.72;
barley, $2.60; and oats, $1.60.
Regular Commodity Credit Cor
poration price support loan rates,
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Block sets 9 83 grain target prices
per bushel, will be: com, $2.65;
sorghum, $2.52; barley, $2.16; oats,
$1.36; and rye, $2.25.
The signup for the 1983 feed
grain program will be Oct. 1
through March 31. Producers may
request 50 percent of their
projected 1983 deficiency
payments and 50 percent of their
1983 diversion payments when they
sign up.
USDA estimates per-bushel
deficiency payment rates will be;
com, 21 cents; sorghum, 20 cents;
and barley, 15 cents. Advance
deficiency payments to eligible
farmers will be half these rates.
Advance deficiency payments are
not authorized for oats.
Land diversion payments have
been established at $1.50 per
bushel for com and sorghum, $1 for
barley and 75 cents for oats. The
land diversion payment is based on
the per bushel payment rate times
the farm yield times the acres
diverted.
Farmers who request advance
diversion payments at the time
they sign up for the 1983 program
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will receive a payment equal to
half the established payment
rates.
A producer who accepts an
advance payment, but who later
does not comply with program
provisions, must refund the
amount of the advance payment
with interest, interest charged will
be the rate in effect for commodity
loans on the date of the advance
payment, plus 5 percentage points.
To be eligible for these benefits
as well as for price support loans, a
producer must agree to limit com,
sorghum, oats and barley acreage
planted for harvest to not more
than 80 percent of the farm’s feed
grain base.
As under the 1982 program, two
bases will be established: one for
com and sorghum, the other for
barley and oats.
Producers also must devote to
conservation uses an acreage
equal to both the acreage reduction
and land diversion requirements.
Land designated for con
servation use must have been
devoted to row crops or small
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grains in two of the last three years
except for a summer fallow farm,
for which the cropping
requirement is for only one of the
previous two years. Mechanical
harvesting is not authorized and
grazing will not be permitted
during the six principal growing
months on the acreage taken from
production. Block said.
The 1983 feed grain bases will
remain the same as the 1982 feed
grain bases with adjustment for
crop rotation. Neither cross
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pliance will apply to the 1983 feecSjp
grain program.
Block said USDA is delaying
decisions on the 1983 feed grain
reserve program until the
domestic and world supply, and
demand situation is studied.
He said the additional $6O million
for the farm storage facility loan
program is necessary because
record com, wheat and soybean
crops have created widespread
tightness in storage availability..
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