Show Up Sign-Up for Farm Programs Opens Monday With up sign-up in the 1973 feed grain and wheat programs due to open In Inless Inless inless less than one week Uintah County producers pro have many decisions to make reports reports re re- re ports Ross floss Snow Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Conser ASO county committee chairman IN THESE coming weeks each producer pro producer producer pro pro- ducer with a feed grain base of wheat allotment must make his Individual decisions decisions de de- on whether to participate in the programs and If so what plans to choose among those that are offered JUDGING BY past years some where from 25 to 30 percent of Uintah County farmers will sign up in one or more of the programs In round numbers num bers bens between and farms Mr Snow said SIGN UP FOR the 1973 feed grain and wheat programs Is scheduled February 5 through March 16 10 at the County ASeS office Federal Building in Vernal Participants in the feed grain set aside program will decide whether to sign up for the 30 percent plan or the 15 percent percent per per- cent plan Wheat producers must deter determine mine whether they want additional set set- aside beyond that required for pation THOSE ARE the main program decisions decisions de de- de a farmer will make once he decides de dc to be in one or more of the pr programs programs pro pro- grams Mr Snow said but his entire farm operating plan for for- the for the year is tied in with his I decisions on farm program participation Before he signs up he will want to know what land he is going to set aside if hes he's in the feed grain and he will have decided what crops hes he's going for for- whether he will substitute crops whether he will grow an alternate crop on his set-aside set land and take a payment re reo re- re SUBSTITUTION IS continued in the 1973 farm programs the ASe committee chairman pointed out He explained that substitution means a producer may choose among the following crops corn grain barley wheat soybeans soybeans- and still preserve his farms farm's base or allotment record earn program payments payments payments pay pay- ments and be eligible for loans so long longas as he stays within other program re rep Alternate crops permitted on set aside land if a producer accepts a reduction in program payment include sunflower safflower sesame guar mustard seed castor beans crambe and a a- other details of the 1973 W feed grains drains and wheat willbe will willbe willbe be available to producers through leaflets leaflets leaf leaf- lets and explanations offered by the county office before up sign-up begins and throughout the rest of the year Mr Snow said |