Show i FARM NEWS NE WS I 1 0 o resident president P signs carlil T inn ale flar 1938 crop season an allaround all around national farm program which will help the farmers and at the same time protect consumers is planned under the he agricultural adjustment act for 1938 passed by congress recently and signed s j agn ed by president roosevelt last week according to information received by director william peterson of the utah state agricultural college extension service most publicized provision of the 1938 act is the ever normal granary section designed to maintain a co comparatively constant supply of staple farm commodities by estabill aing production and arranging for storage of surpluses another provision which will vill be entirely new to utah wheat farmers is the per cent crop insurance on their acreage this is the first opportunity farmers have had to obtain wheat crop insurance of such a type provisions of the old soil con 1 WHEAT PRICES BELOW PARITY FOR LAST 12 YEARS ARS CENTS PER BUSHE L 2401 afi 0 0 I PARITY PRICE 1 caw anoff b 41 V 0 10 so bicet FARM PRICE P 40 0 i T 1910 1915 1920 1925 1930 1935 1937 s er program will be continued c d throughout 1938 director peterson said payments will be made as previously to farmers following approved soil conserving and range and soil building practices arrangements are also made under the plan for increases I 1 in all payments of less than as a special provision for small f farmers arm lers upon the foundation of the conservation program specific provisions are made for five crops wheat corn cotton tobacco and I 1 rice allotments will be set to provide both for production of adequate equate supplies of these crops each year for domestic and export use and for maintaining an adequate reserve loans will be made under certain conditions to corn cotton and wheat producers and at the discretion of the president and secretary of agriculture producers of other commodities may be allowed to borrow under the program consumers will be protected from any radical rise in the price of farm commodities through the reserves maintained under der other provisions of the act setting a new nigh lor utah dairy herds in the twelve animal class the utah state agricultural college jersey cattle showed an average production of pounds of milk and 4 1 98 pounds of butterfat last year dairy department figures show three of the twelve animals were over five years old while eight were two year olds milking with their first calf ne the h acid e i d included i n e 1 u aed s seven e v e n daughters of f S Stock t 0 clr w wells e 1 il s go golden 1 d e n fox a silver medal jersey bull another i f cial dairy herd test and record willi be kept of the college jerseys in 19 1938 38 0 executive committeemen of the utah crop improvement assoria i tion a group which has been influx entill in organizing of farmers in I 1 a weed control program met with I 1 the state agricultural correlation com committee cittee in the state capitol building early this month to outline its program and budget for the coming year a according cc to dr R J evans head of the utah state agricultural college depart I 1 ment of agnono agronomy ny the crop im im I 1 1 provement pro associations 1938 pro I 1 gram designed to dovetail with th the c states weed control program f for r the coming year will be designed especially to obtain the cooperation of individual farmers in Z the state plans dr evans says |