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Show Nebeker Warns Against Wrong Use of Wheat Warehousemen, feed dealers and feeders were 'warned Tuesday by Sidney J. Nebeker of Laketown, chairman of the Utah State AAA committee, against the use of feed wheat purchased from commodity com-modity corporation for any other purpose than the feeding of livestock live-stock and poultry. One of the main purposes of the plan for offering . approximately 100 million bushels of wheat for sale is to aid producers of .livestock, .live-stock, dairy and poultry products in attaining the goals established under the Food for Freedom program, pro-gram, Mr. Nebeker explained. Processors and dealers must certify cert-ify that (the identical wheat was sold for use as livestock or poultry poult-ry feed. They must also certify as to how many bushels were processed into mixed feed, and how many bushels were sold producers pro-ducers as whole, cracked or ground wheat to be fed to livestock and poultry. County AAA committeemen are charged with the responsibility of checking on the disposition of this wheat. While they are not to refuse re-fuse to allow the wheat to be sold in the county, they have the authority to determine whether or not the purpose and intents of the program were violated and to report re-port violations, the chairman said. He added in explanation that production goals caning tor large increases in eggs, poultry for meat, beef for slaughter, lard and other pork products make it necessary nec-essary for producers .to be . sure of a supply of feed at reasonable prices. pri-ces. - - With surplus wheat . filling elevators ele-vators and warehouses- to the "brim" at terminal markets, it was desided that some of this wheat could well be released to aid the producers of livestock and poultry products in reaching their goals, he said. In addition to certifying that feed wheat purchased from commodity credit was sold for feed for livestock live-stock and poultry, processors and dealers must also post a bond of 50 cents per bushel and the wheat must not be held more than 60 days. In Utah the wheat if cracked will be sold for 90 cents per bushel bu-shel at any railroad siding and for 86 cents as whole grain. Both will be offered for sale but all wheat sold by commodity credit corporation will be in car-load lots. |