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Show WHEAT OUTLOOK STRESSES NEED FOR ADJUSTMENT W.th an indicated wheat croo for h C1'op report of winter , t1' 441 Hilton bushels and an ind cated spring wheat crop of 240 m.lhon bii'hels, Agricultural Adjustment Adjust-ment Administration official-, foresee an adequate amount of wh:at from the 1935 crep that cculd used for any Available export outlet Wil-ham Wil-ham Pet:rson, State Director of Extension Ex-tension Service, lays. Last year the wheat crop was 496 million bu.hels, the lowe t in 41 years, and in 1033 it was 529 million bushels. The carry-over on July 1 thla year ia cxpect-d to be b.tween - '0 million and ITj million bushels. Although even when the drought was at its wen t, therj was no danger dan-ger of a shortage of wheat, the rain-iall rain-iall of the spring has so improved conditions that a surplus of wheat is likely to result, unless severe conditions affect tho svring wheat crop between now and harvest time. Ih3 implicat'on of the crop re-pert re-pert for wh .at farmers is that they must once more face the problem of what to do with wheat for which there is no home market and for which foreign outlets are limited," Georgu E. Farr 1, director of til 3 DivisLm of Graino cf the Agrlcul-, .ural Adjuslraent Administration, sa-s. Through tine wheat program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Adminis-tration, faa-men-i hevsi thn mleans to meet till; problem through cooperating cooperat-ing to adjust their production to market outlets. Through the adjustment adjust-ment payments farmer;, are protected protect-ed against lower prices if ttesj result re-sult as from larger crops. "During the lar t year wheat farmers farm-ers have had a concrete demonstration demonstra-tion of the advantage of the wheat program in prot cting them against price disparities between what they have to buy and what they get for what they sell. Even though the country has b"en on a domestic basis for wheat laet year, wheat prices have not reached varity, and it has - 1 only been through the adjustment payments that farmers were able to recleve. a parity return on their "If it ' Kij'iir d t.i- provisions t-f the wheat program to g'.c .farm-irs .farm-irs this proc'ction during the years whew tlie two Ehortest wheat crops in 4u ycais were' haivested, it sesin Ik'ly that the piovislons will be (veil more rtces ary with normal wheat ciops," Mr. Parrell said. |