Show Small allotment operators Have May 13 wheat farm operators who want to vote in the May 21 referendum on marketing quotas for the 1964 wheat crop were reminded today that May 13 is their signup date at the County Office A small-allotment farm operator is one who has a wheat allotment of less than 15 BY SIGNING such an operator chooses to be an allotment grower in 1964 and If quotas are approved he and other growers on his farm become eligible to qualify for price and payments for diverting wheat acreage to soil-conserving he becomes eligible to vote on whether the program shall go into Wanless Chairman Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County points out that this advance signup as a means of qualifying to vote is specified in the law rule has not been pulled out of a hat by the people who help to administer the he said list of ble producers is needed to pro-i vide for an orderly and proper just as in any other democratic election AS A PROGRAM the small-allotment farm producer will be eligible for price support based on national aver age rates of a bushel for certificated wheat and SI 30 for wheat will be SO percent of the normal production of the acreage but not more I than the farm's normal yield times the planted At a program the small-allotment farm produced with an allotment of acres or less may divert all of his wheat acreage to soil-conserving uses and receive a payment representing 50 percent of the county support rate times the normal yield per acre times the acres in his small farm The acreage diverted See ALLOTMENT Page It ALLOTMENT from page is to be in addition to the normal conserving base for the In this he would not receive CHAIRMAN Shields said that small-allotment farm operators who do not sign up as allotment growers by May 13 may not vote in the May 21 referendum will not receive price support or and will not earn diversion payments if quotas are they may plant up to the larger of the farm's base or the 1964 allotment without marketing quota |