Show FOOD EF WAR ME informational pan ban liberalized Libera lied limitations have been lifted on AAA committeemen giving information on t the lie farm program marvin jones head of the war food administration has issued new instructions concerning the limitations imitations I 1 placed by congress on tile the activities of AAA employees mr jones explains that it was not the intent of congress to interfere with tile the state county and community committeemen mitt mItte cemen emen giving full information to f individual farmers groups of farmers or to anyone else as to the operations of the farm program the now new regulation is as follows informational agents cannot be employed in regional state and county offices and no employee shall engage in any promotional or propaganda activities tivi ties or nn an any activity designed to influence legislation state county and community committeemen may give full information to individual farmers ani groups of farmers or to anyone else as to the provisions of the operation of the farm program 1911 1944 wheat program Fr the 1944 wheat program under AAA will differ somewhat from the programs of previous years leo mckinnon chairman of the county USDA war board said today there will be no farm acreage allotments the national wheat goal will be OS 68 million acres this will be broken down into state goals and if deemed necessary into county and individual goals wheat acreage goal is acres mast essential war crops WF A is advising farmers to follow this formula before planting winter wheat wheal hold out the land needed for other more essential war crops lay plans for taking care of the land in rich county attention 4 should be givens given first to the production ofray barley and potatoes wheat needs next year will bs be large but bat future needs 1915 1945 and 1916 will also be large it is less likely that these needs will vill be met if farmers recklessly rack lessly plow up grassland the way the lad last dut dust b bowl ani I 1 st started stariea bore f food can be raised during the next nex t several years by good farming than if farmers get careless about their methods market hogs at lbs because of limited feed supplies is asking farmers to market hog hogia when they weigh between and pounds larger hogs turn more of the corn into fat the nation needs the fat for war uses but much of the fat been reaching war channels packers and retailers have left the fat on meat cuts and only part of it has come back from american kitchens plans are to spread out the limited feed supplies by raising leaner meat and ti get fats from soybeans peanuts etc A hog ceiling of 1475 in chicago will go into effect eany eaily this month brough price supports the government has promised farmers a 1375 chicago floor for to pound hogs callings on markets other than chicago will be set according to normal trade differentials with present corn prices the corn hog ration is at the average of tatt last 20 years this puts hog raising on a sound footing but not a getrich get rich quick business A now hog licensing system for packers will be put into effect on august 25 with this new system the government is in a better position to back price support aromi se sUnder this system tem a packer can be denied a license it if he pays below or above the ceiling farmers who bl slaughter aughter meat are not affected by the new licensing system the farmer slaughter permit system established this spring remains in effect irish potato storage to prevent unnecessary waste of the huge crop of irish potatoes now coming on and to keep a con constant supply on the market through throughout 01 it the year yea potato will need to be spread out over the fall and winter th the p early potato crop in southern and eastern states was so large and came on the macket so rapidly that marketing facilities handle them and some potatoes spoiled is planning now to avoid a similar loss in the late potato crop to 10 lo this a large part of the crop will celd ad to be stored on farms allocation of materials to con continued on last page F 0 D 0 00 rip rn E VIM storage facilities for 15 million bushels of potatoes will help toward that end details of the irish potato loan and price support programs announced this spring are now bein worked out and will be geared to thle marketing problem farmers are to be commended for raising the huge crop but are reminded that they have responsibilities be beyond y ond production without their cooperation potatoes cannot be marketed in an orderly manner an athe nation will be unable to realize the full food value of the crop raised dry bean and pea price supports dry beans and peas present a problem similar to irish potatoes production will be considerably larger than last year roust must be spread out so that cleaners can handle them many farmers will need to store tha crop on their farms until the market can absorb them details of the price support program announced earlier are being developed to help deal with the farm storage problem 44 machinery A new method of distributing ration ed farm machinery in 1944 is now tak ing shape recently called in representatives from five state war boards I 1 and five county war boards one of each from each region for the purpose of 0 drawing up the new program f plans are to provide the new d distri aution pattern to states in time to dis tribute tribute fa farm rm machinery manufactured for use in 10 1914 14 |