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Show Thursday, May 3 NUANCE Do you UINTAH know someone who doesn't read - t i . Progress Report for 1983 r NUANCE Theres not too many of them around are an Advertiser if If you Underground pipeline 255,,nsfl. Irrigoj-iciv- N Your losing money your ad is not Mfer TlAaMOaerHenV t, 37? acres appearing in NUANCE PROJECT These above projects 'were com- -' plefed in 1983 fiscal year by the Uintah Basin Salinity tributes $2 million to Uintah Basin farmers each year. The program is designed to help farmers improve irrigation techniques,. Program. The salinity program con- - No other advertising medium . . . shopper or radio . . . reaches as many people in the Basin (from Rangely, Vernal, Roosevelt to Fruitland as does SaDinity program incentives lhe salinity program contributes 12 million each year to formers hi this area to install irrigation systems that improve, water efficiency. Farmers that become involved in this program receive funding assistance, technical guidance and professional services. Each year, numerous formers improve crops by working, within the salinity program said Nick Lundatrom, a Welcome Back Tom conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service. I Brad Norman and NUANCE - Pectol Leroy The salinity program offers formers a tremendous financial incentive. If formers will install an approved sprinkler or other irrigation system that improves water efficiency, the salinity program will pay for 75 percent of that new system. The fanner only has to pay 26 percent for a new sprinkler that will ultimately improve his form. The salinity . program money is allocated by the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Services, while the technical planning and engineering specifications are provided by the SCS. The salinity program will continue to help formers modernize their irrigation The program will place systems. another $2 million in the Uintah Basin, maybe more, in the next year alone. said Lunds trom. The money spent last year on forms in the Basin went to such projects as installing sprinklers, building regulating reservoirs, leveling land and putting welcome Tom back to Utah Machinery. Ell-ingf- ord . .. down pipe. Farmers interested in improving their watering techniques should get together and approach the SCS. Farmers who are willing to work together on a group plan are likely to get a higher priority than individuals said Lundstrom.But the SCS encourages an interested fanners to look into the program. We're here to handle all your new and used equipment needs. . People read NUANCE. But dont take our word for it. Give us a call today, i |