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Show Agr. Conservation Payments Larger On Small Farms The Agricultural Conservation Program actually provides larger per-acre practices payments to operators of small farms than to large farm operators, according to Preal George, member of the Utah State PMA Committee, which administers the AC Program Pro-gram in the State. This follows the policy of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-justment Act of 1938 "to preserve and rebuild land resources in the National public interest". There are two reasons for this fact, Mr. George said. First, Congress provided for an increase in the size of small payments that is payments of less than $200.00; second, Congress placed a maximum max-imum limit of $10,000.00 on payments pay-ments under the Triple-A Act. Assistance through AAA practice prac-tice payments generally is based on the needs of the land, rather than the operator. However, operators op-erators of smaller units often need an additional amount of help to carry out practices necessary neces-sary to conserve and improve their land. According to the 1945 Farm Census, recently released; re-leased; half the Nation's farms make up only eight percent of the Nation's farmland. However, operators of these farms received 13 percent of the Agricultural Conservation payments.. |