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Show sort i airy Subsidies T ftU Continue SI A. new schedule of dairy pro-taiIsn pro-taiIsn .ction payment rates for the DCKt or s riod through March, 1946 has agi en arranged by the War Food con ministration, it was announced iesday by Orvillt. u. iee, chalr- pn 1 OP an of the Utah State AAA mmittee. : I The rates, which have approval urn the office of economic stabili-r stabili-r o vtion, are planned to encourage rovid jntinuance of the highest prac-:an prac-:an cable level of milk production, Kt .-ith special emphasis on butter, iu-4 e said. ):esi Tentative dairy payment rates ke hrough December, 1945 were an. iounced in February. These now .ave been adjusted, established lefinitely, and extended through he first three months of 1946. Recent legislation, providing unds for this Drogram beyond he ' present fiscal year, made pos-;ible pos-;ible establishment of the pay-nent pay-nent rates on a firm basis for he rest of 1945, and the extension exten-sion of the .program through next March. The announced rates are subject to adjustments to compensate for any general upward up-ward change in milk or dairy product prices. The new schedule provides substantial sub-stantial increases in the rates of payment on butterfat, to levels slightly higher than one-fourth the national average rates on milk. It also provides for increases of 10 cents a hundredweight in the rates previously announced for ; whole milk delivered in July, August, Au-gust, and September, and for extension ex-tension of the regular winter rates on both milk and butterfat from October through March, 1946. "This new schedule of rates will put into immediate operation the kind of program recently authorized au-thorized by Congress," Mr. Lee said. "It will encourage maintenance mainten-ance of the increased rates of milk production which have started in recent months, in line with out constant goal of getting get-ting all possible production of war-time food supplied. Announcing Announc-ing the new rates for a full 'dairy'year ahead gives dairy far- j mers a definite basis on which I to plan their operations." ! Increases in the butterfat payments pay-ments make the milk and butterfat butter-fat payments proportionate to each other, and are in accordance with recent legislation. One of the primary objectives of the new program is increased production of milk in the butter areas and increased deliveries of butterfat for butter production. While there are some changes in the seasonal pattern of pay. ment rates, with some slightly higher and others slightely lower, the annual average level of payments pay-ments will be comparable with last year. The changes in the rate pattern are designed to en- courage continued increase in production during the third and ! fourth quarters of the year, to 1 utilize more fully short supplies i of labor and processing facilities, i The new payment rates- Payment rates for Utah are: Butterfat: 17 cents per pound in April, 1943; 10 cents in May and June; 13 cents in July, August, and September, 17 cents in October Oc-tober and on through March, 1946. Whole Milk: 70 cents per hundred hund-red weight in April, 1945; 35 cents in May and June; 55 cents in July, August, and September; 70 cents in October and on through March, 1946. The new payment rate program involves committments for dairy production payments to farmers approximating $541,000,000 over a 12-month period, Mr. Lee said. |
