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Show I Page September 1973 Utah Farm Bureau News 4 New ideas pay off for young Duche IT'S THE LAW! On September 1, 1973, a Just six years out of the Marines, state law went into effect requiring that all vehicles traveling on state highways at under 25 miles per hour be posted with a sign. The state highway patrol is responsible for enforcing this accidentpreventing law. Slow-Moving-Vehi- Decal $1.65 Metal sign 2.25 Pole 1.00 Spade .45 Socket for spade mount .25 Get your SMV signs for all equipment now from your county Farm Bureau office or contact: UTAH FARM BUREAU SERVICE COMPANY 629 East Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 young Roger Hicken, 28, of Duchesne county, is producing crops that would be the envy of many older farmers. His best hay will yield about 7 tons per acre this year, and he expects his best cornfields to produce upwards of 30 tons of silage. Despite the demands of operating nearly 800 acres of land, Hicken has found time in recent years to serve on the state Farm Bureaus Young Farmers and Ranchers committee for two years and as county YF&R chairman for a similar length of time. He farms in a corporation with his father Roy and brother Phil of Heber City. Roy and Phil milk nearly 100 Holsteins in the dairy set-u-p just outside Heber, and Roger produces the crops at Heber, the f?rm he lives on 10 miles east of Duchesne, and a farm the three have just bought at Myton. They are building a Grade A milking barn at the Myton place and Willing to try new ideas for bigger plan to move the cows there about October 1, 1973. The farm has already crop yields, Roger used a new been sold at Heber ; the trio is leasing technique in fertilizing his com this it back from the new owner this year also. Waiting until the com was summer. I tried something new this year on some of the hay, Roger explains in accounting for his average of about 5 tons per acre on the land he has been farming. Usually I topdress with pounds of available phosphate. This year I plowed down about 100 pounds and reseeded. Its doing fine. He has a theory that perhaps the way to fertilize hay in the Uintah Basin is to plow down about 700 pounds of phosphate at reseeding time every six years or so, then do no topdressing in between. Some winters we dont have enough snow up here to carry the fertilizer into the ground, he points out. It just goes to waste. If we plow it in at seeding time, I feel itll last until we plow the ground up again. about 320 Winner of a farm mechanics award in high school. Hie kens mechanical ability serves him well in keeping up the equipment on his farm and helping build the new milking barn. Policy Issue Available now . . . PEACE OF MIND Developments in National of Interest to Farm Bureai FARM BILL FINALLY Although it does not spell the beginning of the end for government subsidies, the new farm bill is finally law. Signed by Nixon in the bill sets up target prices; a market price below that level means subsidy payments. If present prices continue, the government wont be paying out much money. But its still a restriction on a free market system. mid-Augu- in the Farm Bureau Group Health Insurance Program 1974 WHEAT PROGRAM themselves set aside for 1974, the USDA is giving for as big wheat farmers the a crop as they can produce next year. Only if the average price is below $2.06 per bushel will farmers receive wheat payments. No conserving base is required for the next four years, the duration of the new farm bill. And no preliminary payments will be made in case subsidy is called for. Surplus wheat held during past years can now be released without penalty. Each farmers 1974 allotment will be about three times that forl973, not to limit acres planted but to establish a base for payments, if any are required. With all Because medical costs are going upr Farm Bureau's health insurance benefits have gone up too so you can have peace of mind about your family's security. Check these exclusive advantages to Farm Bureau members: ... set-asid- maternity expense coverage $40 daily room and board benefit not subject to the 80 percent of eligible expenses 80 percent of other eligible expenses up to $1000 after a $50 deductible is satisfied 100 percent of eligible expenses after $1050 of covered expenses Eligible expenses include: Hospital services and supplies $1200 scheduled surgical and anesthesiology benefit $300 Plus these benefits Common accident coverage Double the room rate for intensive care Convalescent home care benefits Three-yea- r benefit period Conversion privilege $1000 a year restoration clause Dependent children covered to age 23 Ambulance coverage to local or nearest qualified hospital Whats going on here? Frank Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters Union, successful challenger of Cesar Chavez grip on grape and lettuce picking contracts in California and elsewhere, has made a strange move. Recently he wrote to 30 Delano, Calif., grape growers who had signed contracts with the Teamsters For further information, contact your local Farm Bureau agent or: East Fourth South Salt Lake City, Utah Phone 521-369- 84102 0 a I the contracts and giving Chavez an open field. This after Fitzsimmons talks with George Meany, head of AFL-CIstrong of Chavez United Farm supporter Workers (UFW). AFBF president William Kuhfuss, alarmed that enterprising growers be bargained off without a voice in the proceedings, urges Congress to quit get on with farm dragging its feet and labor legislation. " O, UTAH FARM BUREAU 629 ad CHAVEZ AND FARM LABOR repudiating bGreau INSURANCE es go-ahe- Coverage Benefits $40000 Maximum expense kvi st, i |