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Show Palmer Announces Potato Price Support Program Irish potatoes are now on the list of crops which will come in for Government price support, J. M. Palmer, Chairman of the Iron County AAA Committee, announced today. Iron CdUnty growers who plant within 80 to 110 percent of their potato acreage allotments will be guaranteed around $1.10 per hundred hun-dred for the U. S. No. 1 potatoes sacked and graded f.o.b. carlots. Appropriate price adjustments will be made for marketable potatoes grading 85 percent U. S. No. 1 and for potatoes in bulk and in storage. if it proves necessary to handle bulk and stored potatoes. I These prices will be based on a j guaranteed price of $1.10 for U. S. No. 1 grade Burbank Russets in northern Utah. Prices will be supported through one or more of the following methods: 1. Purchase for relief distribution by the Agricultural Marketing Ad-mlnstration; Ad-mlnstration; distribution to low-income low-income families through the stamp plan which is in operation in all Utah counties. 2. Diversion to starch, livestock feed, and other products under the A. M. A. programs. I 3. Loans or purchases by the Commodity Credit Corporation, Mr. Palmer points out that the potato price support program is not, aimed at expanded production in 1942, but rather to assure the full planting of trie alloted, a4rease which for the state is approximately approxim-ately the same as in 1940 and 1941 This acreage is sufficient to pro- duce the 365 million bushels needed I to meet normal domestic require- I menfcs. H |