Show essential information Inton nation about the 1938 AAA I 1 I 1 farm program new goals will increase 1 efficiency of program by directly encouraging better balanced Far farlaino laing RUSSELL n R I 1 I 1 uintah county count y agent the purpose of the conserva conservation tio program is to maintain and to I 1 ir crease as far as possible th ability of the farm ir r ranch to produce income for the farm family both now and in the future I 1 farmers experience through the depression proved that merely producing a great quantity qua of farm product was not the way to obtain the greatest income from the farm when farms were being treated trea ted as mines and every possible pound of crops was bei being ig taken take from thorn them regardless of whether lether vi the fields were exposed to erosion and regardless of whether the plant food in the soil was boing being exhausted when range land was so overgrazed over grazed that grass a and aid id browse were killed out and the soil exposed to blow away in the wind farmers and ranchers were not prospering the crops and the tha livestock products from their land were being added to huge surp surpluses luse s which were bearing 1 down the prices farmers mers rece received ived mea iwala the hie prices of things farmers bought stayed up or went higher so did taxes and interest and farmers desperate ies parate to get a little money for their family needs went on and on destroying the very land on which their income and the food and clothing of tile the whole nation depended land must be protected but if the farmers and ranchers are to obtain and keep on obtaining from their land a an 1 income that enables them to live decently the ability of that land to produce an adequate supply of farm products must be protected the process I 1 goes around i in ii n a circle if farmers dont get enough income they are forced to and overgraze ard and damage their land they cant I 1 afford to do the things which they know will protect it and conserve it and if they dont protect and conserve their land it loses its ability to produce income for them the federal government it is interested te in the farmers problem for many reasons just as every farm f family am ily is a pait of the nation so the farm fam ilys income problem is a part of the national nation income pr proberb obern solving that problem is the objective of the national farm program which the government is carrying 0 out U t through the agricultural adjustment administration farmers make up about one fourth of the nation and when they can they buy about one adne fourth of the industrial du goods the nation produces farmers feed and clothe the whole nation and if the land which is the source of food and clochi clothing i for the whole nation is ruined tl the whole nation suffers the principle of the national I 1 agricultural co conservation program is to provide for farmers enough income to enable them to follow soil conserving practices on their farms the cash payments from the government are not lot the sole additions to farm income in corre that the program is da designed signed to make these cash payments help farmers to run their farms so that the land will produce a better i income acome over a longer period of time points in 1938 program the points in the new 1938 program are 1 establishment of natio national ial goal for soil depleting crops and a national objective for soil build ing crops and practices llie natio national ial goal will be subdivided sub divided into state county and farm goals 2 establishment of ii dividu i oil depleting special crop goals 3 A maximum payment it will i be calculated for each farm iu I 1 aa inc it will he c made for keeping soil depleting crop goals and for attaining soil goals including the carrying carry ou out i of practices if the soil kl ll 1 ag crop goal is exceeded or r taci i is is failure to reach the th io i n alding I 1 i gual tile the payment will he ha lass less fihnn the maxi maximum murn payment 4 in general the th 19 aror clas classifications foli follow v for foe the 1936 and 1937 ait i program 5 in all cris payments will be divided between betwee i the landlord and tenant in the proportion that they share in the principal crop or all crops and practices en cri the farms part o ow oe e of establishing gf till ils As secretary wallice ht hat inri bated H R tolley administrator of the AAA AA A said the purpose ol 01 0 establishing goals is to provide more definite objectives tor for 1938 also the goals should inc increase rease tile the programs efficiency by more directly encouraging better b balanced a 1 carmi far mi assignment it of lh individual goals should give e each a c farmer a better concept of his part in the national conservation conservation effort I 1 farmers will increase their soil alding conserving acreage and soil bu building practices as they have vi ii i i the past and decrease their soil depleting crops in actual op oration cration the 1938 program should prove simpler and more effective than the two programs which preceded it for example a farmer when goals for his farm have been established will know just what he is supposed to do to comply with the plan and just liow low much he will receive for that compliance ony ono one type of payment will be made mada and full payment will bo be made only if the soil depleting acreage does lot exceed th the e goal and if there is sufficient acreage ii i i soil conserving crops and the required soil building practices meet the soil building goal its will be decreased in in cases of failure to reach the 9 goals this means that one half the payment is based upon the conservation attained by reaching the goals and ad one half on the sacrifice involved |