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Show Tarm Conservation Report ar as well as farmers ?fftS the price support i benefit water conservation "ds0i adm inistered by the 1 f Elected committeemen m I acultural county in the Wct ltaRS'crawlev, assistant JiKctor of the Agncul- Conservation Programs WK at ' thp Production and tt Administration. back- lIark this assertion by showing i consumer and farmer 5 from these programs. kfnto farmers, farm leaded lead-ed committeemen from Mis- 'i Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, a Sota and Minnesota, in .rpnce at St. Paul. Minne- i 31. he said there is a 'i ' ken Wea that price supports ' Sensible for high prices. Pointed out that parity ? v hase for determining price, 1 the base ior the es !! 5PfhSS" the farmers as well d consumers have to buy. Shfn the prices of these things " 1 the parity level goes up sVUPth m bufnot ahead of them. ' Se Sorts for most.support- UmSSS, which is 10 per cent i wSi "2 even brek. A number Commodities produced on the are not supported. Beef is iSmb is another. Then the 0 "Lrfm ny commodities are ?vc support levels and. there-ffare there-ffare not affected. He called i ttSition also to the spread be-S be-S what the farmer gets and SS the consumer has to pay d said that in many instances fthefarmer got nothing, the i5ner would still have to pay , protected from price collapse thev have not been afraid to pro-Ice pro-Ice abundantly. Consumers Sve gained from this, abundance abun-dance Abundant production has wevented prices of farm products pro-ducts from going even higher. The consumers have gained throueh the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program which has been in operation for the past 12 years in that the conservation practices carried out by farmers cooperating in the program have helped to make possible the large harvest this year and for the past several years. The conservation conser-vation practices which farmers are carrying out on farms which comprise two-thirds of the nation's na-tion's farmland are the greatest assurance consumers can have that we can continue to fill the grocery shelves, he. said. Most Price Supports Below Market Prices For most of the important farm commodities for which Government price support programs pro-grams are available, the level of support is below the market price. Here is a comparison for 1948 crops of national averages of price support levels (listed first), parity prices (listed second), sec-ond), and prices received by farmers as of August 15, 1948 (listed last): Cattle, beef (per cwt.) $13.60, no support, $24.40; Sheep (per cwt.) none, no support, $10.20; Lambs (per cwt.) $15.80, no I support. S24.80; Hogs (per cwt.) $18.2.0, $16.84, $27.10; Wool (per lb., shorn wool grease basis) .459, .423, .471. Eggs (per doz. cooperative in Midwest) .54, .35, 492; Dry Edible Ed-ible Beans (per cwt.) $8.46, $5.00, $10.50; Dry Edible Peas (per cwt.) none, $4,80. $4.92; Rye per bu.) $1.81, $1.29, $1.46. Wheat (per bu.) $2.22, $2.00, $1.96; Oats (per bu.) $1, .70, .688: Barley (per bu.) $1.55, $1.15, $1.14; Grain Sorghums per cwt.) $3.04, $2.31. $2.07; Potatoes, Po-tatoes, late (per cwt,) $1.86, $1.25-$1.75, $1.58. 1948 ACP Funds Returned County Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Associations in the State of Washington returned 10 per cent of their 1948 ACP funds to the State PMA office for use in rehabilitating flood-damaged farms. The program was opened up to the farmers in flood-damaged counties along the Columbia Colum-bia river and assistance was given in reseeding of grasses and legumes, rehabilitating irrigation irriga-tion and drainage systems, clearing- debris from farmland and other constructive practices. |