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Show AAA Sugar Beet Deficiency Pay Standards Fixed Abandonment and deficiency payments on sugar beet acreages under the 1937 sugar act will be made only on farms in a county or local producing area in which actual yields, because of drought, flood, storm, freeze, disease, or insects were less than 80 per cent of normal yields on at least 10 per cent of the farms in. the area, a department of agriculture bulletin issued this week announced. In counties in which farmers are eligible for such payments, all aDDlicants must be approved by the state agricultural conservation conserva-tion committee, and all other conditions con-ditions of payment must likewise have been met. Determinations of actual yield will also be set up by the state agricultural committees, and the state committee will likewise determine de-termine what constitutes a "local producing area" as cited in the sugar act. It will probably be limited to contiguous farms in the same county which are found to be of the same general topography topog-raphy and soil type. |