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Show Utah's 1945 Wheat Utah wheat acreage goals for 1945 will amount to 300,000 acres in the state, Director W. W. Owens Ow-ens of the Utah extension service announced Wednesday. The 1945 goals are compared with the 296,000 acres set for 1944. In a telegram sent by Director Di-rector M. L. Wilson of the national na-tional extension service, he advised ad-vised Director Owens that the national na-tional acreage will total about 68,500,000 acres, as announced by Judge Marvin Jones, war food administrator. ad-ministrator. In view of the improved wheat supply situation, Director Owens states that the advice of the war food administration to farmers is that "it would not be desirable for farmers to go , beyond goals in the planting for 1945." The WFA recommended that goals be regarded as maximum for 1945 planting and that any planting beyond the goal levels be discouraged dis-couraged throughout the country. State wheat goals were established estab-lished by U. S. department of agriculture war boards and other agricultural leaders In each state, after the announcement in June of a national goal of from 67 to 70,000,000 acres to be planted for the 1945 harvest. The combined 1945 state goals indicate an in. crease of about 1.9 million acres above the wheat acreage planted for harvest this year, and about 13.5 million acres more than were planted for harvest in 1943. |