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Show Farmers receive program paym'ts Farmer who have contributed contri-buted to stabilizing markets for food and fiber and to the conservation of soil and water resources by taking part in bo processed and checks returned re-turned to ASCS county offices for distribution to farmers. Farm program payments help maintain a balance between be-tween supply and demand, the chairman explained. He pointed out that both farmers and consumers benefit from this balance. Payments should be completed com-pleted by mid-August, if farmers who signed up will complete the necessary certification certif-ication indicating that they have complied with all of the program provisions. Most of this money from fajm programs pro-grams tends to remain in our community and benefit local business operations. -In recent years, the US. Department De-partment of Agriculture hud advanced partial payments to farmers during the spring signup period for the c grain program only. The &u ancp of the leed grain payment pay-ment and wheat payments were generally made start ng in late July and continuing through August and September, Septem-ber, or later the chairman explained. ex-plained. Because of budget restraints partial payments could not be made this year- However, the department made a commitment commit-ment to farmers that full payments pay-ments would be made as early as possible. That commitment is now being fulfilled. the 1970 wheat and feed grain programs are receiving their program payments earlier this year than ever before, according accord-ing to Boyd Christensen, Chairman of the County Agricultural Agri-cultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) Committee. Commit-tee. The first batch of payments will be made beginning July 1, 1970. Additional payments will continue to be made as rapidly as farmers certify compliance with program requirement re-quirement and as fast as individual farm records can |