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Show Wheat Plan Brings Cash To Farmers LOGAN Cash benefits will be paid to Utah w;heat farmers this fall, probably by September 15, under the plan with which the Agricultural Agricul-tural Adjustment Adnirnistration has decided to make the Farm Act effective ef-fective for wheat this year. Utah ranks twenty-third in wsheat production, pro-duction, the records of the U. S. Department De-partment of Agriculture shows In the five-year period, 1928-32, it produced pro-duced on an average, 5,554,000 bushels bush-els and planted on the average, 269,- 000 acres. The wheat adjustment program provides for paying cash benefits to! farmers on the basis of the percentage percent-age of their average wheat crop for the past three years, which is domestically do-mestically consumed as food, upon . agreement of farmers to reduce their acreages. Processing taxes are to be levied to pay the costs. The plan will be to pay cash benefits bene-fits each year on the allotments of each farmer for 1933, 1934, and 1935, provided the farmer agrees to reduce his planted acreage for the 1934 and 1935 crops by a percentage that will subsequently be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, but will not be more than 20 per cent of the average ave-rage acreage planted by the farmer in the last three years. Only an exceptionally bad season has reduced the prospective crop for this year, and the Adjustment Administration Ad-ministration decided to put the plan in effect at once because of the existence ex-istence of a carryover three times normal and because heavy surpluses might result from normal yields in 1934 on only an average planted acreage. They expect to pay two-thirds two-thirds of the benefit this fall, and the remainder next spring after the planting season. M. L. Wilson, Montana Agricultural Agricultu-ral College professor in recent years, but who qualified as a true dirt farmer by homesteading in Nebraska when he was 21, is in charge of the Wheat adjustment program and will actively direct the preliminary or- 1 ganization which must take place before be-fore benefits can be gotten to the farmers. Mr. Wilson will work with George N. Peek and Charles J. C. Davis, director of production control. con-trol. Approximately a million participating partici-pating wheat farmers should be affected af-fected by the program. The administration admin-istration will be thoroughly decentralized, decen-tralized, with farmers organizing their own county committees to take charge of local details of administration. administra-tion. These county groups will be the key units in the whole scheme, and the farmers will choose their own men to handle the county program. pro-gram. Each county group will pay its own expenses, to be charged to each farmer according to his allotment. allot-ment. The more economically the local unit is operated, the less it will cost the farmers. The average amount of wheat that farmers have grown in the last three years will determine the basis of their allotments, Mr. Wilson says. The Government has official records rec-ords on State and county production. Averages for the crop years 1928 to 1932 will be computed, and upon this average production and acreage the allotment for each county will be made. After the allotment is made to each county, the county committee, commit-tee, chosen by farmers themselves at community meetings, will have each farmer list his wheat acreage and production for the last three years. The committee will take an average of this, and then allot to each farmer farm-er his proportionate share of the amount allotted to the county. Thus, the steps to be taken by the wheat farmer who wishes to participate partici-pate in the plan are to join his local I organization as soon as it is formed, I turn in the figures on his production land acreage planted for the last three years, and agree to reduce his acreage by the desired amount, in no case more than 20 per cent of his three-year average, j In return, the farmer will receive an allotment which is in the same proportion to his average production as the total wheat domestically consumed con-sumed in this country for food is to the total wheat grown. This allotment allot-ment will te in bushels. On this allotted number of bushels, he will receive a cash benefit from funds raised by a processing tax levied on the basis of the relationship between present price and parity price of the 'pre-war period. It is estimated that about 30 cents per bushel will be 'paid, two-thirds by about September ; 15 and the remaining third in the spring of 1934. I The pl:n funrticr.:; as crop insurance insur-ance up to the amount of the benefit bene-fit on the sllr.tfd r.un-.br of bushels. bush-els. To obtain the ber.ef.l ihe farmer farm-er must pU,nt hie crop, in the ordinary ordi-nary manr.er, bu. if it : hailed cut, cried cu;.. n:ov :i c:1. :.r o'herv.ise destroyed by Xstare. he will rec-ive his benefit ,iut the .-am;, j The pi.-.n has absolutely nothing :to do with the selling of wh'at by a farmer cr grain dealer. A farmer may sell his wheat when and to whom he pleases, or he need not sell it at ail. It is entirely up to him. .The plan is not a price-fixing measure. mea-sure. j While the measure is designed to help the wheat farmer get a fair return for his crop, the consumer is not forgotten. The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-justment Act gives the Secretary of Agriculture the power to enforce fair tra'"e practices among food distributors, distribu-tors, and, if the processing tax is found unduly burdensome, he is directed di-rected to lower it. As a matter of economy -and efficiency, ef-ficiency, the Administration will use the agncul'ural e:ter,sion s'.-rvice in or---:.rjizi:;g farmers under the plan. Co.ury acnts will take an active part in the organization work, and are in position to give inf ormation on tJ.e v. heat plan.. |