OCR Text |
Show A. C. Director Outlines Plans For Utah Wheat Adjustment It will be to the wheat grower's advantage to sign a contract with the government to curtail tlw production of wheat, according to Director William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural college, who has been named manager of the federal agricultural emergency act for Utah. Within a few days the majority of wheat growers in this state will have had an opportunity of hearing hear-ing the domestic allotment plan explained by federal, state or local representatives, Director Peterson said, as meetings have been held and are being planned to eovar the principal grain-producing areas. The main provisions of the plan, as outlined by the state manager, follow; County or district organizatians will be effected to handle the machinery ma-chinery of the plan. The county agricultural agent or some one designated by the. state manager will be secretary of each local. Wheat growers will then be given an opportunity to join one of 'the organizations and sign contracts pledging themselves to restrict the acreage they will plant to wheat in 1934 and 1935, according to the decree of the secretary of agriculture, agricul-ture, which will not call for more than 20 per cent reduction. Tn recognition of this contract the government will pay each wheat grower 30 cents a bushel for five eighths of his wheat crops for 1930, 1931, and 1932, based on the average production of the farmer' for the past three-year period. There will be no curtailment on the 1933 crop but the commission will be forthcoming this year with a payment in September and another an-other when the contract is fulfilled, provided a contract has been signed sign-ed with the government, Director Peterson said. There will be no price-fixing of wheat to be sold, nor will the government ' colli. :t any wheat. Land thrown out of wheat production may be fallowed or planted to forage crops for domestic do-mestic consumption. The government govern-ment will not rent this land. If a farmer breaks his contract before its fulfillment in 1935, then he becomes a borrower of what hac been paid to him in commissions commis-sions and he must return this a-mount a-mount to the goverment. For further details ask a county agent or write to the Extension Service Office, Logan, Utah. |