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Show Few Changes In 1942 Crop Insurance x With the exception of a few j changes which have not been made officially, the Federal crop insurance program will be the s?.me for 1943 as for 1942, Orville L. Lee of Paradise, member of the Utah State AAA committee, announced an-nounced this week. Mr. Lee has just returned from attending the national crop insurance insur-ance conference in Denver. The conference which was attended by representatives of all wheat producing pro-ducing states was held last week, Tuesday through Saturday. Clifford R. Collings of Logan, state crop insurance supervisor for the AAA, accompanied Mr. Lee to Denver and the two represented rep-resented Utah at the conference. Mr. Lee was honored at the conference by being made chairman chair-man of a special committee on education and program planning. This committee was one of the seven committees named to formulate form-ulate provisions and plans for the 1943 crop insurance program. Among those attending the conference con-ference from Washington, D. C, were R. M. Evans, national administrator ad-ministrator of AAA, and Leroy K. Smith, manager of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Reports at the conference indicate, indi-cate, according to Mr. Lee an increasing in-creasing acceptance of the crop insurance phase of the Ever-Normal Granary. He gave Utah's re-' port as an example. In 1938, the first year of the insurance program, 422 Utah farmers far-mers insured their 1939 wheat crops; 645 insured their 1940 crops; 3,443 their 1941 crops; and for 1942 more than 5,600 farms have been insured and farmers ho seed only spring wheat have until February 28 to insure. Completion of the 1942 sign-up is expected to find the number of farms insured well over 6,000. As more and more farmers learn about crop insurance, which is a form of cooperative insurance administered ad-ministered by the Department of Agriculture, there will be even more of them participate, predicted predict-ed Mr. Lee. |