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Show director Gives " Details On New ; Farm Program lsfc me fundamentals of the new og-!,k og-!,k nltural conservation program are 0J nparatively simple. Flrst.it Is Jmized that surpluses are being duced and that surpluses occur I tte soil-depleting crops; that ttie sjwus produced each year on the .1 parage is about 15 per cent of the f I al production. ! rhe program, then simply requests i fanners of the United States to nge approximately 15 per cent of S soil-depleting crops each year to B!i-building crops, and for such ' i, We some federal remuneration Ufe be given in addition to the bene- derived from building the farm, lrtiis Is not a money-hand-out s&l-)gram. Payment Is made to the iS uier when the farmer makes an ort to benefit himself and his l!lUl' crops have been divided into W-ee classes: soil-depleting, soil-VVjtag soil-VVjtag or conserving, and neutral s. Soil-depleting crops include si general farm crops, such as the ,n Si'olins with special consideration r'l!s t-en to sugar beets. Soil-building befcps include those perennial, bl- !lal or annual legumes, green w crops and perennial grasses. 1 The program calls for a rotation system of farming; so that part of your soll-dopletlng crops will be reduced in favor of soil-building crops each year. You may change more ttian 15 per cent of your 6011-depletlng 6011-depletlng acres to soil-building crops but you will not be paid for more than 15 per cent on the basis of the conversion of Class I payment. pay-ment. In addition to this, there is a seeding payment or a conserving payment. For certain changes which you might make you are eligible for both payments. Payments to be made for the diversion di-version of acres from soil-depleting crops to soil-building crops are referred re-ferred to as Class I payments, and for changes from soil-depleting to soil-building practices you will receive re-ceive a Class II payment. Alfalfa is among the crops which receives a high rating as a soil-building soil-building crop. This feature of the program is highly important in this state 'because nearly half of the irrigated land in Utah is already in alfalfa. As the program is interpreted inter-preted today, if you change your soil-depleting acres to the production produc-tion of alfalfa and the alfalfa is planted without a nurse crop for harvest, you will be eligible to receive re-ceive the conversion payment of $10 or mora per acre and also a seeding payment of $3.50 per acre. If, however, how-ever, the alfalfa is planted with a nurse crop of grain for harvest in the spring of 1336, you will receive the conserving or seeding payment of $3.50, but under the present ruling rul-ing you will not receive the conversion conver-sion or Class I payment if you harvest har-vest the nurse crop. However, if you pasture the nurse crop and do not harvest t you may receive the conversion payment. Utah has about 480 thousand acres of land devoted to raising dryfarm wheat on land that, in most cases, is Impossible to irrigate. On account of the low rainfall wheat can be produced only on alternate years, and the land is put in fallow during the year it is not cropped. It is now definitely decided that summer sum-mer fallow is interpreted as a soil-depleting soil-depleting practice, and payment will be made for recognized soil-building practices. Where land has a high gradient and is subject to erosion and gullying, gully-ing, terracing and gully control will be paid for at the rate of $5 per acre when effected on crop land in accordance with specification as recommended re-commended by the state committee and approved by the Director of the Western Division. A protected summer sum-mer fallow in the form of contour listing to prevent water run-off will be paid for under the same jurisdiction jurisdic-tion at the rate of $1 per acre. Approved methods of fallow, which include ploying in the organic matter when the soil is moist (and such a practice should be adopted by every dry farmer), will be paid for at the rate of 50 cents per acre. If you burn your stubble you would not receive this payment. However, payment will apply to only 15 per cent of area for converson and the same limitations will apply to the seeding under soil-building practices. prac-tices. It is recognized that weeds are becoming a terrible menace on much of the land in this state. To help us combat this weed menace, payments pay-ments will be mada for approved methods of eradication by chemicals and by periodic cultivation. When both of these methods are used it is recognized as a soil-building practice. prac-tice. If you use the periodic cultivation culti-vation method only, $5 per acre mignt be paid to you for such a practice. It is recommended that this program, in the case of perennial per-ennial noxious weeds, extend over a period of two years. If green manure crops, planted in orchards and vineyards, are plowed under, this is recognized as a soil-building soil-building practice and carries a payment pay-ment of as much as $2 per acre. Sugar beets are given a special consideration on the basis that sugar su-gar is a deficiency crop. The 1936 planting will establish a base and there is no restriction as to the number of acres, except you must conform to the schedule outlined for sugar beets. If you grow sugar beets you must not only have 15 per cent of your soil-depleting acres of farm crops in soil-conserving crops, but in addition you must have the equivalent of 40 per cent of the acreage devoted to growing sugar beets in soil -conserving crops. The payments for soil-conserving crops grown in connection with sugar su-gar beets are approximately the same as for acreage put in these crops in connection with the general program. For the country as a whole these payments for sugar beets will average approximately $5 per acre. The payment will vary between be-tween states and between farms, depending de-pending on the sugar produced. The rate of the Class I payment will average $10 per acre for the United States as a whole. ' You will be able to get full details of the program from organization in the state and county. You can obtain ob-tain from the county agent's office the necessary papers on which to make your declaration of compliance, compli-ance, which will lead later to a compliance survey to determine the amount of your payment. There is no hardship in the program; pro-gram; in fact, there is nothing called call-ed for other than a practice which would be recognized under the best methods of agriculture, and ttie federal fed-eral government is putting money into the program to stimulate the better practices. It should be remembered re-membered that if you receive benefits bene-fits from this program you must pay the full price and do all that the program requires. o |
