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Show Those Who Plant Under Tl.eir AAA Wheat Allotment Acreage Will Receive Bonus According To Plan Of Secretary Wickard A wheat production program for 1943 is expected to be an-nounced an-nounced soon by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard. It is anticipated that a special benefit payment will be made to farmers who plant below be-low their AAA allotments. The program is expected to relieve the present record surplus Wickard has indicated tnai ne 'would like to see the acreage for the 1943 crop reduced several million mil-lion acres. Present prospects point to a bumper 1942 crop and a total supply including a record surplus sur-plus from past crops sufficient to meet this nation's needs for two years. The supply may be in excess ex-cess of storage facilities. Under the 1943 program, farmers j would be told in effect that they could plant their full allotment and be in compliance with the AAA program. They would be offered of-fered special payments, however, if they converted a part or all of their allotment to crops needed in larger quantities to meet war aieeds. In this category would be soybeans and flax for vegetable oil and livestock feed crops. Just how much the special payments pay-ments will be is a matter not yet determined. Wickard had considered asking congress to amend the farm law to permit smaller planting allotments, allot-ments, but dropped the Idea after the lawmakers got into a controversy contro-versy oyer a pyir.y.v of the department depart-ment making government wheat available for livestock feed at prices competitive with corn. He decided instead to appeal to farmers to make a reduction themselves, them-selves, and to offer them special inducements to do so. o o |