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Show Production Guides Point Up Need For Conservation Production guides calling for adjustments in many soil-depleting crops emphasize the need for continuing conservation farming, says Reed Lyons, chairman chair-man of the Duchesne County PMA committee. If increased production is needed this year, it is quite probable that even greater production pro-duction will be needed next year. Since no one knows how long1 the emergency will last and just how much will be needed, provisions have to be made for building up. reserves as well as supplies -to meet current cur-rent needs. According to Mr. Lyons, a farmer should make his plans especially this year with an eye to both present and future production. The farmer will be better off, the land will be built up, and the nation stronger if he conserves his soil while producing the abundance needed for defense. Dry Bean Supports Set A slightly higher price support sup-port and no acreage allotments are principal provisions of the 1951 government program for dry edible beans, according to Mr. Lyons. Price support on the 1951 crop will be at levels reflecting to farmers an average of $b'.69 per 100 pounds of thresher-run basis, Mr. Lyons said, compared with $6.30 for the 1950 crop. This is about 75 per cent of parity. par-ity. Supports will be carriea out through farm- and warehouse-storage loans and purchase pur-chase agreements. Varieties of beans eligible for support include Great Northern. Small Red, Pinto, Red Kidney, Large Lima, and Baby Lima While acreage allotments wl not be in effect for the 195 crop of beans, Mr. Lyons plained that a production guide for the crop has been set up for the county so that local growers may produce their share of the needed national total. The aim is to get the necessary production produc-tion from the areas where it can be produced most efficiently. Nationally, the dry bean production produc-tion guide for 1951 adds up to about the " same acreage as in 1950. a Grassland Improvement Opens Opportunities Farmers of Duchesne county should not overlook the opportunity oppor-tunity of increasing production for defense needs by improving their pasture and forage crops as well as to step up production produc-tion of row crops, says Mr. Lyons. He says that, of the billion acres of grassland in the United States, there are hundreds of millions of acres where the production pro-duction could be doubled and tripled by fertilizing, reseeding with improved varieties of grass and legumes, and improved management. While much progress has been made in increasing the production produc-tion of row crops, particularly corn, not nearly so much has been done to increase the production pro-duction of grasslands. Mr. Lyons points out that, with the need to conserve diminishing di-minishing feed grain supplies, farmers can produce more meat and milk from pasture and forage for-age by stepping up production through the good conservation measures suggested. On too many farms, the pasture pas-ture is allowed to produce what it will with little, if any, attention. at-tention. But there are many instances in-stances to show that, where pasture is given a chance by the use of phosphate and the seeding of better varieties, the production can be more than doubled. |