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Show HoduGod acreage ! for 1002 UJIiooi gram will strengthen prices by reducing the 1982. 83 marketing year supplies, Block said the increase In supplies and decrease In prices Is the result of two successive record U.S, wheat crops and a record setting 1981 world harvest. The program will be vol. untary so producers can de-clde de-clde for themselves, based on market conditions, wheth. er they want to participate. Soil conservation will be strongly stressed In this program. The reduced acreage acre-age will have to be devoted to conservation uses. Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block announced his Intentions to Implement a 15 percent reduced acreage acre-age program for the 1982 wheat crop to offset the effects ef-fects of record supplies and depressed wheat prices. Program operating procedures pro-cedures will be Issued after pending farm legislation Is enacted Into law. "Wheat supplies In the U.S. are 14 percent above last year. The carry over next June Is expected to exceed 1 billion bushels, the highest level since 1977-78. The reduced acreage pro- |
