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Show OPA Restricts Mark- Up To Quality Seeds Farmers Advised to Respond Promptly with Reports to the AAA Farmer-producers of legume and grass seeds, in selling to planters, may charge the allowed mark-up on sales of quality cleaned seeds only, OPA has announced. Previous Previ-ous press notices on the seed regulation re-gulation incorrectly implied that farmer-producers could charge the mark-up also on sales of rough, cleaned seed when selling to planters. plant-ers. A producer's maximum price is the base price "for the kind and quality of seed sold, plus his transportation trans-portation cost, plus the mark-up. The base prices on sales of quality cleaned seeds (tesitng 99 percent pure seed and 90 percent germination, germina-tion, with no discounts for weed seeds), per 100 pounds, sacked, and the mark-ups which the producer may add to the base price in sales to planters or to other persons include: in-clude: Alfalfa Kind of seed, Base Price (100 lbs.), Maximum Mark-up (to any person other than a planter), Maximum Max-imum mark-up (to a planter). Northern $35.00 $3.50 $8.00 Central 32.00 3.50 8.00 Southern (except when grown, sold and delivered for planting in the State of Arizona or in the State of California, south of the 40th parallel.) 28.00 3.00 8.00 Southern (when grown, sold and delivered for planting in the State of Arizona, or in the State of California, Cali-fornia, south of the 40th parallel.) 32.00 3.00 6.50 Clover Medium Red, Mammoth Red 30.00 3.10 6.95 Alsike 27.00 3.10 6.95 Sweet 10.00 2.00 5.00 Timothy 7.30 1.30 3.50 AAA Farm Supervision. Missing from the farm front this summer will be the AAA Farm Supervisor with his steel tape, aerial map, and clipboard. Except for a spot check on a small percentage percen-tage of farms, Utah farmers and ranchers will be their own farm supervisors and will check their own compliance with provisions of the AAA program. A shortage of man power many of the supervisors of past years are in the armed services of the country coun-try and transportation difficulties were given by H. E. Larsen of Co-rinne, Co-rinne, member of the state AAA committee, as the main reason for "self-supervision" this year. He also said that for a number of years, many farmers and farm leaders lea-ders have been convinced that farmers supervising their own farms with a reasonable follow up of spot checking would result in a decided saving to farmers and without material increase in violation viola-tion of provisions of the program. Deductions have been made from payments earned by cooperating farmers to pay for this supervision in the past. Mr. Larsen urged that all farmers farm-ers and ranchers respond immediately immedia-tely when called upon by county or community AAA committeemen report the practices completed. He reminded them that they should keep a record of the soil building practices, as they are carried out. He pointed out that it would be easier for them to report if they prepare a sketch of their farm, showing the name of the crops planted, the acreage of each crop and the location of soil building practices carried out. Where measurements are not of record and the rate of payment for practice is comparatively high, producers shall be required to furnish fur-nish measurements which will enable the county committee to compute the correct extent of the practices. For example, for a practice measured in terms of acres, the producers must provide measurements if the rate per acre is in excess of $2.00. Certificates of origin, purchase receipts, seed tags, or other evidence evi-dence necessary to prove compliance compli-ance must be furnished by the producer in connection with the applications of materials or the seeding of crop land or grazing land. Mr. Larsen explained that if a farmer does not respond when called upon by the county committee com-mittee and lets the season go by without making a supervision report, re-port, it will simply mean no AAA payments for him. |