Acreage Reduction Programs
(Continued from Pago A 1)
In the case of com, fa- instance,
farmers must set aside 10 percent
of their acreage bases. The loan
rate, set nationally, is $1.65 a
bushel; local rates will differ
slightly. At sign-up, farmers can
opt to receive 36.5 cents a bushel
on average harvest totals. This rate
represents 40 percent of the
89-cent estimated deficiency pay
ment (the difference between the
$2.84 target price and a national
average market price USDA has
forecast at $1.95 for the 1989
crop).
Typically, participating fanners
receive the balance of their defi
ciency payments sometime after
harvest. However, this winter,
with com prices higher than
expected because of the drought,
some farmers are having to repay
advance deficiency payments
obtained last spring.
Target prices and loan rates for
other program crops include:
wheat, $4.10 target and $2.06
loan; barley, $2.43 target and
$1.34 loan; sorghum, $2.70 target
and $1.57 loan; and oats, $1.50
target and 85 cents loan.
Participation in programs for all
of these crops except oats will
require a 10 percent set-aside.
Oats has a five percent diversion.
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Wayne and Shirley Lesher. The owners were Incorrectly
identified In last week’s issue. With encouragement from
the Leshers Jim and Pam Berry of Lebanon were able to get
their start In farming eight years ago. Pictured are (from
left): Pam, Phillip, Jamie and Jim Berry.
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Unlike past years, none of this set
aside will have payments asso
ciated with it.
In a move to encourage greater
production, participants in the oats
program have the option of tem
porarily boosting their bases by
borrowing from their bases for
other crops without diminishing,
these bases for future years. The
option is designed to alleviate a
current oats shortage, according to
Alarie Fleming, a program spe
cialist in the state ASCS office in
Harrisburg, Pa.
The other new wrinkle in this
year’s programs is an option to
substitute soybeans or sunflowers
for 10-25 percent of the acreage of
program crops without losing base
acres for future years. A farmer
with a 120-acre com base, for
instance, could plant 27 acres of
soybeans (25 percent of 120 acres
minus the 12 acres required for
set-aside). Farmers must sign up
for this option by Feb. 3. Howev
er, neither party will be bound by
an agreement, according to Mary
land ASCS official Carol Wathen.
Other provisions from last year
remain in effect, such as limited
cross compliance and the 0-92
option.
Under cross compliance, a far
mer who participates in the prog
ram for one crop on a particular
farm cannot plant more than his
base for other crops on the same
farm for which he has ASCS base
s, although he does not have to
participate in the programs for
these crops. Such compliance
does not extend from one farm to
another, however.
The 0-92 option, in place for the
first time last year, allows a parti
cipating grower to idle all or a por
tion of a particular crop base and
still receive 92 percent of the defi
ciency payments otherwise due
him. This option also preserves
bases for future years.
Program yields will be the same
as they were in 1988. Base acres
again will be determined by a five
year average of previous bases.
This year’s low set-aside
thresholds might entice more far
mers into enrolling, but there’s a
catch. The averaging procedure
for base acres means that a fanner
without previous ASCS history
will have a base established for
him at one-fifth the level of his
plantings the prior year.
That’s one reason more lives
tock producers, particularly dairy
men, have not taken advantage of
the program even when it fits into
their cropping plans. Many Exten
sion agents recommend that all
farmers take the time to register
their planting intentions with
ASCS regardless of whether or
not they enroll in one of the
programs.
Pennsylvania ASCS’s Fleming
said he wasn’t sure to what extent
local farmers will participate in
the 1989 programs. While low set
aside levels encourage enrollment,
lower deficiency payments should
discourage it, he said.
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Cargill Increases Number
Of Scholarships
For Rural Youth
EPHRATA (Lancaster) Car
gill is increasing the number of
$l,OOO scholarships it will pro
vide. The 200 scholarships are for
high school seniors from U.S.
farm families planning post
secondary study next fall.
This year’s awards will place
increased emphasis on need-based
criteria as a means of better target
ing the scholarships, according to
Calvin Anderson, executive direc
tor of the Cargill Foundation.
When the Cargill Scholarship
Program for Rural America was
established in 1986, it provided
$lOO,OOO in scholarship funds.
The fund rose to $150,000 last
year and was increased to
$200,000 for 1989 in an effort to
offer more students an opportunity
to further their educations.
The program is designed to rec
ognize and encourage academic
achievement, accomplishments
York County Tree Seedling Sale
YORK - The York County York. PA 17402, or
Conservation District is planning tQ hceA on
for next spring s tree seedling u have not
n t^ C H ry .r r Conservation us in m
District holds a seedling sate to order blanks will be mailed
promote the planting of seedlings mi d-February. Distribu
throughout the county. . you ,v ... „, c „; in u. * n ril
Contact the York County Con- seedling s wIU ** Apnl
servation District, 118 Pleasant 22n “-
and talents of young people from
U.S. farm families and help them
get started with their post
secondary educations.
To qualify, students must have
plans for full-time enrollment next
fall at an accredited two or four
year college, university or
vocational-technical school. An
independent national scholarship
service organization manages the
selection process, which is based
—in addition to need —on sever
al criteria including academic
records, leadership and extra
curricular accomplishments.
Deadline for scholarship appli
cations is March 15, 1989. Stu
dents who receive scholarships
will be notified by May 1. Infor
mation and application forms can
be obtained from Cargill Hybrid
Seeds: P.O. Box 328, SL Peter,
Minn. 56082, (507) 931-2310.
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