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Show Reminds Farmers Of AAA Deadlines Franklin county farmers were re minded of two important AAA farm program deadlines this week by R. W. Geddes, chairman of the county agricultural conservation committee. December 31 is the last day for submitting applications for parity payments on the 1940 wheat crop and for applying for commodity loans on wheat and barley. All wheat producers who signed up last spring to participate in the program and did not overplant 1940 wheat acreage allotments on any farm in which they are interested inter-ested are eligible for 1940 parity payments. All eligible farmers in the county so far as known in tne county office already have received their 1940 parity payments, mad; at the rate of 10 cents a bushel of the yield established for the farm. If any farmer in the county believes be-lieves that he is eligible for a pari ty payment and has not received one, he should file an application at the -county office before December Decem-ber 31, 1940. Loans from the Commodity Credit Cred-it Corporation on 1940 wheat and barley stored in farm granaries will be available to Franklin County Coun-ty farmers until December 31, also, the committeeman announced. Loan rates in, Franklin County average 49 cents a bushel; while barley loans are based on 35 cents a bushel bush-el for No. 1 barley in farm storage. stor-age. R. W. Geddes said wheat loans are still being made, at the rate of more than a million bushels a day over the nation, and 200 million bushels are now under loans. |