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Show Potato Payments Not Included In AAA Program Potato payments and allotments will not be included in the 1943 farm program, Joseph Skeen of Ogden, member of the Utah stat AAA committee, has announced. This is an indication of some of the changes taking place in the j farm program to meet war conditions, condi-tions, he said. But in almost the same breath he warned wheat growers that, for this year at least, there will be no relaxation on marketing quotas and wheat acreage allotments. On the contrary, farmers are being asked, wherever possible, to plant war crops instead of wheat. Instead of acreage allotments for potatoes, goals will be established and individual farmers will not be eligible for price supporting programs pro-grams of the U. S. department of agriculture who plant less than 90 per cent of the goals set up for their individual farms, the state committeeman explained. Under the 1942 farm program, potato allotments and normal yields were determined on all commercial potato farms on which ,, ,t. r,f a acres or more were harvested in the three previous pre-vious years. Payments were computed com-puted on these allotment farms and deductions made from other payments earned for over-planting. Payments are at the rate of 2 cents per bushel of the normal nor-mal yield and the deductions for overplanting are 10 times the payment pay-ment rate for each acre of potatoes pota-toes harvested in excess of the allotment or the three acres allowed. al-lowed. But under the 1943 program, instead in-stead of potato allotments, goals will be established and no payments pay-ments will be made. But to participate par-ticipate in any price supporting program, such as purchases by the agricultural marketing administration admin-istration or commodity loans, a grower must plant at least 90 per cent of the goal. Tentative plans indicate that increases will be asked for nearly all farm commodities grown in Utah, with the exception of wheat and some of the less essential vegetables. |