Show 75 MILLION ACRES 3 US U 0 sa s1 boosts 1948 wheat goal washington fourth largest wheat acreage the farmers of this nation have ever planted may be realized in 1948 if the department of agricultures agri cultures revised goal of 73 75 million acres acres Is met next year that mark is a five ave million acre an fn increase crease from irom the pattern recommended last year and a r seven even million acre boost over the wheat goal set last spring before thee the corn orn outlook took on its gloomy east cast continued Continue dand and unremitting international demand lor for food grains influenced fluen ced the agriculture department into hito making the upward revision slop while officials admitted that the increased acreage constitutes ad an invitation vi to farmers to klant lan heavily in wheat they loped lobed against plowing up sod lands not suited lor for sustained tanning farming in order to take advantage of high wheat prices however an even more important facton in determining the nations wheat acreage in 1948 will be the lure of the two dollar a bushel market pr price ace department authorities admitted that high market prices will do more to dictate the amount of wheat planted than could bould any arbitrarily assigned government gaal apal the department sold said the 75 mil lion acre goal if achieved would provide the fourth largest wheat acreage the farmers in the united states have ever planted higher plantings occurred in 1919 1910 1037 and 1038 estimating on the basis of a io 10 year average yield figure ot of I 1 43 bushels en an acre the crop to in 1948 would be billion bushels but it the outturn follows the 1942 43 average of bushels an acre production would reach 1221 billion bushels in the wake of this years bumper crop arop A much smaller 1948 wheat yield normally would be indicated however the world food shortage makes it desirable according tode to department part ment spokesmen that the united states continue its high rate of production the united nations has warned that the world food situation has not improved in the past year yeah and predicts shortages will continue another two iwo years year |