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Show Two Utah Counties To Have Wheat Insurance in '48 Two counties in I'Uih have wheat crop insurance u.'uler the 19-18 experimental prurani. Thin county will not have a crop I insurance program m Wheat1 rop insurance was offered m 1200 ' counties throughout the country j last year hut will, operate in only 2n )!!::.. 'f-IS. Recently legis latum place,! the program on an experimental basis Several factors were considered ' i:i selecting counties. Amoim them , are : 1. Wheat had to an important soutce of income in a county. 2. The county had to he representative repres-entative of a wheat producing area. 3. Past cr,.ip insurance experience exper-ience m the county had to be favorable. fav-orable. J The Crop Insurance Corporation I has pointed out that selection of the countiees was most difficult and many not selected have had successful wheat insurance programs. pro-grams. It was also emphasized that present counties selected are not necessarily permanent and it might be advisable in the buture to choose other counties in order to get additional ad-ditional insurance experience. The change in legislation does not effect the contracts covering 1947 wheat crops. But previous contracts written to cover a wheat crop in 1948 in a county where insurance will be discontinued were terminated by recent legislation. Individual insured producers in Utah county will be notified of this action in the near future. |