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Show Farm Notes Wheat Export Goal Exports of wheat and flour are likely to exceed the 267-mil-lion-bushcl goal announced last August, according to the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Exports totaled to-taled 164 million bushels in the last half of 1946 and may reach 325 million bushels for the entire en-tire marketing year. Wheat disappearance in the United States is expected to total nearly 790 million bushels 525 million bushels for food, 180 for feed, and 87 for seed. This would leave about 465 million bushels for export and for carryover carry-over July 1, 1947. Exports of 325 million bushels would leave a carry-over of about 140 million bushels on July 1. Insurance Deadline March 15, is the final date in Duchesne county for writing Federal all-risk crop insurance contracts on the 1947 spring , wheat crop. All farmers in the county who grow wheat are eligible el-igible to obtain the insurance. 1 Chairman Wm. O Larser, of the County Agricultural Conserva-! lion Committee suggests that producers pro-ducers growing these crops will j want to consider it seriously under un-der the circumstances affecting 1947 production. Federal all-risk crop insurance protects wheat crop investments against loss from all natural farming hazards. The insurance is non-profit, and premiums do not have to be paid for several months. Complete information about crop insurance can be obtained ob-tained from crop insurance ag- ents or at the county office at ' Roosevelt, Utah. i Crop insurance on 1947 spring wheat will be sold in Duchesne j county by 11 agents named by' the County Agricultural Conservation Conser-vation (AAA) Committee. The agents will acquaint farmers farm-ers with crop insurance in every wheat growing area in the coun-. coun-. ty. Crop insurance protects farmers farm-ers against investment loss from all unavoidable hazards. ' Spring wheat farmers have available several amounts of insurance in-surance from which to select the one that will best fit their farming farm-ing operations. None of the premium payments pay-ments are used to pay expenses of administering the program. Premiums are used only to pay losses of insured farmers. Agents appointed to sell crop insurance in Duchesne county are: Fred C. Lindsay, Mt. Home; Wm. O. Larsen, Bluebell: Lyle L. Young, Bridgeland; Alfred S. Goodrich, Bluebell; Lester Max-field, Max-field, Altonah; Gail H. Anderson, Talmage; Marvin R. Michie, Tab-iona; Tab-iona; Wanlcss Shields, Arcadia; Charles E. Crozier, Ncola; Ray Brown, Roosevelt. Lime Use Under ACP 1 Use of lime to improve soil fertility and increase production is expected to increase 15 per cent over last year on American farms under the Agricultural 1 Conservation Program (ACP). I In 1945, more than 90 per cent I of the lime used by farmers was spread on farms participating in the ACP program. Although the ! figures are not complete, use of lime in 1946 is expected to reflect re-flect the same proportion. ACP committeemen expect 1 that about 29 V million Ions of lirne vill be put on the land in 1947 under ACP in areas where' it is needed, compared with an ' estimated total of less than 25 million, in 1946. The anticipated 15-per cent increase, however, will still be far short of what the nation's soils need. Some 60 million tons of lime should be spread annually for the nation's best welfare, surveys made by ACP committeemen have revealed. |