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DONALSONVILLE (GA.) NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1964
AbCS Newsbits
(by Leon Barnes)
Farm- action programs of
the Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service
trace back to the early 1930’s
when faimers and city people
alike were struggling against
the effects of a nationwide de
pression. ASCS programs to
day—as in the past 30 years
—have a major role in the
fight against poverty and ru
ral decline.
Commodity crop adjust
ment programs were the first
of the measures provided by
Congress in the fight against
rural poverty; it had been
proved previously that farm
prices could not be protected
where supplies were unlimit
ed.
ASCS programs are tailor
ed to the needs of the low
income farmers as well as the
larger producers. Approxi
mately one-third of the cot
ton farms are still operated
by tenant farmers, most of
whom are small farmers.
Some 70 percent of all cotton
farms have an acreage allot
ment of 15 acres or less.
Nearly 60 percent of the
farms have ten acres or less,
and under the laws are ex
empt from having to make
any downward adjustment in
their cotton production-
There are approximately
500,000 farms growing tobac
co in this country, and the
average tobacco acreage per
farm is about two acres. For
flue-cured and burley tobacco,
which account for about 90
percent of total U. S. tobacco
production, more than one
third of the farms have allot
ments of one acre or less;
about 55 percent have allot
ments of two acres or less.
In the case of wheat, more
than a million farms have
allotments of less than 15 ac
res, and these farms repre
sent 67 percent of all wheat
allotment farms. More than
half of the com loans, more
than a third of the wheat
loans, and some 60 percent of
the soybeans loans are for
$1,500 or less. Many grain
loans are below SSOO. This is
true of a third of grain sorg
hum loans, 45 percent of the
loans on oats, and a third of
the loans on rye.
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Price supports enable the
small farmer to plan his op
eration with a certain securi
ty. He knows in advance that
!the price for his crop will be
iat a certain level, reflecting
the steadying influence of the
[loan. But whether or not the
producer takes out a loan on
his crop, he benefits from
price support. The programs
hold up the general level of
commodity prices, helping the
small operator because these
are the farmers whom low
prices are most likely to force
out of business.
Aided by farm-action pro
grams, gross farm income has
been moving ahead at a
slightly faster rate than the
i farmer’s costs, and this has
benefitted rural business. In
the past three years, the in
creases in gross income has
funneled an additional $8
'billion into rural communities
and most of these dollars
have wound up in the cash
registers of small town retail
ers and farm supply dealers.
Studies by USDA and uni
versity economists in recent
years have indicated that,
without commodity programs,
realized net income would de
cline between 40 and 50 per
cent seriously affecting even
the producers of nonsupport
ed commodities. More than
two million farm families znd
farm workers’ families realize
a net of less than $3,000 a
year. Better than a third of a
million additional families net
between $3,000 and
To help make price support
work, ASCS activities include
i loans for building farm stor
age facilities, and loans for
drying and other equipment
to operate storage space more
efficiently. A farm may also
earn storage payments by
resealing his grain stored in
his own bin.
The Agricultural Conserva
tion Pro-gram, in effect since
1936, helps the small farmer
make improvements on his
farm that he could not afford
to make without such cost
sharing assistance. About
one-third of the farms parti
cipating in ACP are under
100 acres; about one-half re
ceive payments of SIOO or
less. In addition, for any
farmer who earns less than
It happened in ’44
As it appeared in The News
on June 11, 1944
Mrs. Branch Mosely and
young daughter, Suzanne, are
with Mr. and Mrs*. L- W. Bar
ber.
Oscar M. (Kiss) Roberts
was promoted on May 1 from
Phm 2c to Phm Ic. He is at
tached to the amphibious
landing force in the South
west Pacific.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry King
were visitors in Atlanta re
cently. Dorothy King spent
the time in Colquitt.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ellis
Miller and children, Peggy
and Ellis, Jr., of Alma are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Daniels and family.
Miss Martha Jane Clark of
the University of Georgia is
at home for a short stay be
fore returning for summer
school.
Little Jo Smith has been
enjoying a visit with relatives
in Damascus.
Miss Mary Davis of Mari
anna was here for the week
end with Dr. and Mrs. A- B.
Davis.
Miss Betty Jane Wilson of
Auburn, Ala. is at home with
her parents, Mr. and Mj>.
Earl Wilson.
i Miss Mary Frances Fiveash
spent last week in Jackson
■ vil'le and Jacksonville Beach
A Note of Thanks
Words could never express
the love we hold for our
friends who were so kind to
us in the death of our loved
one, Mrs. Sol Dupriest. For
the flowers, food and every
expression of sympathy, we
say thank you from the bot
tom of our hearts. May God
richly bless each of you is our
prayer.
The family of
Mrs. Sol Dupriest
S2OO of ACP cost-sharing as
sistance at regular rates, a
’’small payment increase” is
provided.
SCS emergency programs
often keep the smaller and
poorer farmer in business
through a period of natural
disaster such as flood or
drought. Emergency feed
grain sales make feed avail
able at a price the small farm
er can pay, preventing profit
eering and protecting live
stock prices by helping pre
vent the forced selling of
stock from feed-short farms
and ranches-
Emergency conservation as
sistance, in addition to the
regular ACP, can be made
available to aid farmers when
lands are damaged by natural
disaster, a severe blow espec
ially to the smaller and poor
er farmers. To repair damage
done to farms by floods,
earthquakes, drought and
windstorms, some 64 counties
in ten states received such e
mergency aid last year, a
mountng to $4.4 million.
Laws authorizing various
ASCS programs include such
provisions as directing the
Secretary of Agriculture to
protect the interest of ten
ants, sharecroppers and small
producers providing fer the
diversion of payments among
such producers; guarding a
gaiiM the displacement of
I tenants or anv unjustified
'charge in relationships which
would increase the landlord’s
payments; providing for the
payment of “fair and reason
able” wages to sugar crops
workers.
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Looking back to days “Gone With the
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