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ASCS NEWSBITS—
New wheat program can mean much
or nothing to fanners of Seminole
(by Leon Barnes)
Does the new wheat pro
gram mean anything in parti
cular to Seminole farmers who
have wheat allotments?
Well, yes and no. it depends
entirely upon the individual
farmer and what he sees in
the program. We have noted !
some cases where it seems
like the farmer would certain
ly want to participate, and we
have also noted some where it
would not appear so profit
able. There are other cases,
particularly when the wheat
farmer is participating in the
feed grain program, where it
appears the wheat farmer has
nothing to lose and would
probably gain by participating
in the wheat program. Os
course, our viewpoint may
not be the same as the farm
er’s, so we need to discuss the
program wiith each individual
wheat farmer..
So far as I am concerned,
the new wheat program is not
the easiest one to understand.
For example, it is a diversion
program but you do not have
to cut acreage below your
allotment. You do have to
set aside an acreage of crop
land to conserving uses equal
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| to 11.11% of your allotment.
This acreage represents a'
10% cut in your last three
years history acreage.
Then there is the calcula-1
tion of your marketing alloca
tion. Under other allotment
programs, it’s all you produce
on the alloted acreage. Under
the wheat program it is 90% ,
of your normal yield, as deter
mined by the county commit-,
tee, times your acreage allot
ment. But this doesn’t mean
you can not sell all the wheat
you produce. You can.
..-Not only can you sell all the
wheat you produce, you will
also be eligible for price sup
port at $1.30 per bushel IF
you do’not.exceed your allot
ment. The 90!% thing is calcu
lated strictly for the purpose
of arriving at your payment
for growing wheat. That’s
i right, the wheat program
pays you for growing wheat
as well or for not growing
w’heat (very similar to the
feed grain program). As a
matter of fact, the major in
centive offered under the ’64
wheat program is through
cash payments representing
I marketing certificates
! Marketing certificates cov
|er 90!% of your normal yield,
las mentioned above. One-half
of the amount is called your
, domestic marketing allocation
the other half is called
your export marketing alloca
tion. Domestic certificates are
worth 76c per bushel and ex
port certificates are valued
|at 25c per bushel. Os course,
if you reduce your wheat ac
reage to less than 96% of your
aimiment, your domestic and
export ceruficates will no
longer be equal to bO% of your
normal yield but you will first
receive full credit for domes
tic certificates with the bal
ance, if any, representing ex
pprt certificates.
Now back to the diversion
part of the program. As men
tioned above, an acreage equal
to at least 11.11% of your al
lotment will have to be set a
side to conserving uses. In
addition, you have the option
to divert additional acreage up
to 26% of your allotment or
15 acres, whichever is the
greater. For Seminole, this
means that each wheat farm
er can divert his entire allot
ment if he wants to, because
none of our allotments are
over 15 acres. The diversion
payment represents one-fifth
of the county price support
loan rate times the normal
yield of wheat for the farm.
These rates in Seminole range
between six and nine dollars
per acre.
As I have already said, the
wheat program is not easy to
understand and furthermore
its application can work diff
| erently on each wheat farm. I
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Rev. lames H. Rush
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Rev. James H. Kush, associate
pastor of St. Luxe Methodist
Church, Columbus. Rev. Rush
attended Asbury College and
Asbury Theological Seminai y.
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As a matter of fact, I doubt
seriously if anyone who has
taken the time to read this
article really understand s
what I have written, but I
hope I have made one point
clear. That is, we need to talk
to each wheat grower before
the sign-up period ends on
May 15 th, so he’ll know
whether or not he wants to
participate.
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DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 7, x96'
30-day weather outlook calls for
above normal temperatures in May
The thirty day agricultural
weather outlook for the
month of May for South Geor
gia, Southeast Alabama and
Northwest Florida, issued by
the weather bureau at Tifton,
Ga. on May 2nd:
YOUTH WEEK TO END
ON SUNDAY
Sunday evening, May 10
win climax You in Week at
Fust Baptist Church. The Y
clubs of ocm.ncxe County
High School will sponsor a
worship drama “Now is the
Hour” during the 8:00 p.m.
worship hour. This drama is
presented by Mis Ann Smith’s
speech class.
Other activities for the re
mainder of the week include
meeting at the church this
evening at 7:30 to attend the
Lions Club minstrel-
Friday night at 6:30, there
will be a study of the book,
Blueprint for Tomorrow. This
will be lead by Ralph Williams
in his discussion of Drawing
the Plans: Joy Barber in dis
cussing Understanding Par
ents; Mary Ann Jenkins in
i Taking the Squeak out of
Home Machinery, and Carolyn
i Reagan in Forming Friend
ships.
Saturday night at 8:00, the
young people are invited to
attend a Hawaiian Holiday in
the fellowship hall of the
church. Dress will be Hawai
ian or American. The adult
'workers are sponsoring this
and will do the entertaining.
‘Mr. and Miss Hawaii of 1964’
will be a feature attraction.
Fofcv’ng the drama Sun
day night, the young people
of First Baptist will be hosts
to all young people attending
at a social fellowship hour in
the social hall of the church.
Temperatures during the
month of iiay are expected to
average above normal over all
of the tri-s’bate agricultural
area except in Southeast Geor
gia where near normal temp
eratures are expecteo. Daily
mean temperatures should av
erage between 72 and 76 de
grees. Maximum temperature
will range between 82 and 88
with afternoon temp era; ares
reaching 90 degrees or higher
on six or eight days. Minimum
temperatures should average
between 58 and 65 degrees
with only one of two nights
below 55 degrees.
Rainfall during May will
vary widely.. from place to
place but should average be
tween 2:50 to 4.50 inches.
Rain is expected to occur
mostly as afternoon and even
ing showers and thundershow
ers occurring on six or eight
days durng the month.
Sunshine during May is ex
pected to average about 76%
of possible with no exten ed
cloudy periods.
Soil temperatures during
May will continue upward
with four inch bare soil temp
erature's averaging between
74 and 78 degrees. Tempera
tures as a deeding depth of
two inches' will closely follow
air temperatures averaging
near 86 degress.
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A Note of Thanks
, I wish to express my appre
ciation and thanks to the doc
tors and nurses of Seminole
Memorial Hospital for their
i kindness '?nd hospitality
shown me during my stay in
t the hospital. May God richly
bless each of you, -•
Mrs. W. F " aw.*
I Also, thanks to the colored
help. They were so nice to me.