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Show Wheat Program Is Re-Opened Immediate reopening of the wheal program to give farmers of Utah who have not yet signed up an opportunity op-portunity to join the adjustment plan of the AAA. is announced by Director William Peterson, manager of the administration for Utah. This announcement was made following fol-lowing communications from Secretary Sec-retary Wallace and Chester C. Davis, Da-vis, administrator cf the AAA. Farmers who sign up now will be eligible fcr the final 1933 payment and the 1934 and 1935 adjustment benefits, but they will not recelvs the first payment of 20 cents a bushel bu-shel on their allotment promised earlier signers, Director Peterson says. However, the new signers will begin receiving benefit payments when the second payment of 8 cents a bushel, less total costs, is paid. County control associations already in existence will provide the basis for the sign-up machinery and additional ad-ditional supplies, if necessary, will be furnished them by the department depart-ment of agriculture at Washington, D. C. Signing up of farmers who wish to take advantage of the opportunity op-portunity will begin at once, Director Di-rector Peterson says. Those who are interested should make inquiry at the office cf a county agent or write directly to Director Peterson at the state extension office at Logan. In the original wheat adjustment campaign approximately 209,670 acres of wheat-producing land in Utah came under contract. This represents a 77 per cent sign-up. There remains, according to AAA officials. 62,172 acres of wheat land not under contract in this state. T?y reopening the wheat program It !s hoped that the majority of the non-contracted acreage will come under the administration's reduction reduc-tion policy. |