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Show Recommendations Made For 1942 AAA Program At National Meeting Measures which will assure rull farm support oi the Nation's defense program, encourage greater conservation, and give greater assistance to the small farmer have been recommended for the 1942 AAA farm program by a conference of AAA state committeemen and other officials held in Washington, D. C, A. Golden Kilburn, executive assistant as-sistant Utah State AAA announc ed today. While the recommendations as Jraifted endorse the general objectives ob-jectives of the program at pres--rit, they will make it possible or farmers to meet quickly any changes in farm production required re-quired 'by the defense program. The recommendations will form the basis of specific provisions of Lhe 1942 program to be announced announc-ed later. The national conference, confer-ence, which brought together the recommendations of state, county coun-ty and community committeemen and representatives of state agricultural ag-ricultural extension services and experiment station workers. The conference adopted a number num-ber of resolutions relating to defense, de-fense, among which it urged farjners to avoid speculative expansion ex-pansion and to reduce debts and build up reserves of cash and farm commodities during the present period of industrial activity ac-tivity and more favorable prices. The conference endorses the price control work of the office of Price Administration and urged higher taxes on excess profits, and incomes and luxury items and sales promotion of defense stamps and bonds to carry thro '.he defense effort. It also urged that, due to shortage of farm labor la-bor in some areas, priority be given to farm machinery, and that a 'balance be maintained between be-tween farm and industrial prices. The need for better national nutrition nu-trition was also emphsized as a defense aid. Recommendations of interest to Utah farmers include: That the conservation materials mater-ials and service program through which Utah farmers obtained 22 hundred tons of phosphate this year was recommended to be continued in 1942. That the cotton mattress and comforter programs be continued another year. That the minimum payment of $20 per farm be continued in 1942. That the $15 allowance for tree planting be continued also. That soil-building practices include in-clude an irrigation practice to prevent leaching and erosion through careful control of irrigation irriga-tion water. That marketing quotas be extended ex-tended to potatoes. That wheat farmers vote in a referendum beiore.May 1, 1942, on marketing quotas for 1942 and 1943. That Federal Crop Insurance be extended tomatoes, apples, and other crops as readily as oracticabje. That farm storage of wheat and barley be encouraged. That the program be made more flexible to meet defense needs by eliminating general crop payments and providing higher rates for soil-conservmg worn ou cropland over the special crop allotment; that a payment be set up for maintaining conservation uses This means the elimination of the general soil-depleting allotment, al-lotment, if this recommendation s approved, Mr. Nebeker said. Recommendations were made for a more direct election of county committeement. It was recommended that farmers farm-ers be kept informed of the need ior inevitable post-war adjustment. |