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Show Farm Conservation Report ACP Slops Up Conservation The final push that puts the conservation job over the hump is the assistance given farmers under the Agricultural Conservation Conser-vation Program, says J. Vern Hopkin, chairman of the Utah PMA committee. Telling farmers farm-ers about conservation and why it's needed is good, and showing them what to do on pilot farms helps, but getting the job done takes some direct help to meej-the meej-the costs, the chaijrman states. Assistance to farmers to help them carry out conservation practices averages less than half the cost of carrying out the practices, prac-tices, the chairman says, but this assistance often determines whether or not the conservation job is done. Pooling Agreement Provisions Pointed Out Provisions for pooling agreements agree-ments arc included-in the 1943 Agricultural Conservation Program Pro-gram but payments are limited to $500 for any individual, Joseph Jos-eph Wilcken, chairman of the Duchesne County Agricultural Conservation Committee, explained ex-plained this week: The $500 limitation lim-itation applies to all payments to any person under the 1948 piogram. Under previous programs, a 1 manager could be appointed for the community project, or pooling pool-ing agreement, and the amount of assistance allowed by the Federal government could be J paid to him. Often money was 1 borrowed to complete the project pro-ject and the funds received under un-der the Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Program were used toward .repaying the loan. In any event 'the entire transaction was handled han-dled by the manager and the pooled ' Federal payment was made to him for disbursement. Under the " 1948 program, a manager may be appointed only if the pooling agreement docs not involve a payment in excess of $500. If a manager is not appointed ap-pointed the payment will be divided di-vided among the farmers in the pool in accordance with their respective contributions to the pooling agreement practice, and the $500 payment limitation will apply separately to the payments earned by each. The payment made to a person under a pooling pool-ing agreement is "considered, together to-gether with any other program payments he may be entitled to receive, .in applying the $500 limitation. The responsibility for working work-ing with farmers in setting up pooling agreements and in checking check-ing to see that work meets specifications spe-cifications still rests with the county committee. "Approval of the agreements by the State PMA committee also is required. Farmers planning community projects should see the county committee without delay so that such projects can be included in the county conservation budget. -V. Our County Agricultural Conservation Office A farmer behind a desk instead in-stead of in front of it is not as uncommon now as it used to be. A good example of this change is the County Agricultural Conservation Con-servation office. The Duchesne county office is located at Roosevelt. The men in charge are the farmer committeemen com-mitteemen elected by farmers , last fall and winter. Elections I were held in all the farm com-I com-I munities or townships in the county to name community committeemen com-mitteemen and delegates to a county convention. The three farmers who administer the County Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Program were elected by the delegates. These county committeemen run their own farms and usually are at the county office only long enough to do their required administrative work. They are paid only for the time actually spent in this work and do not draw a regular salary. Members of the committee are Joseph Wilcken, chairman,. Fred Lindsey, vice chairman, and Joseph Malnar, member. Since the committee is not. in the office all of the time, Victor -Brown and Sybil Mitchell are in charge of office . operations. Clarence Redmond is conservation conserva-tion supervisor. A major portion of the job of the county committee is administering ad-ministering the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program. This starts with suggestions for the program a year ahead. The committee soon will be sending in recommendations recom-mendations for the 1949 program pro-gram and. farmers now are being be-ing invited to give their ideas to community committeemen or send them to the county offco. A major responsibility at this lime of the year is meeting with farmers, explaining program practices and agreeing on conservation con-servation plans for the year. In this way farmers get the details on how practice must be carried out and the help available.- To qualify for assistance the farmer is obliged to carry out conservation conser-vation practices as specified. Checks are made to see that practices are carried out to assure as-sure the desired conservation results. re-sults. Other programs administered by the county ACP office are crop loans and other price support sup-port measures, the sugar program, pro-gram, crop insurance program, and other work as assigned. |