Show WHEAT allotments ALLOTMENT PROVIDE PLENTY FOR ALL NEEDS 0 reducing wheat in line with the 1942 wheat acreage allotments is as much a part of the food for freedom program as the call to increase milk eggs pork and canning crops with that declaration karl S barton chairman of ahe he san juan county AAA committee explained that an increase in wheat tion and acreage increases of wheat can be expected to defeat some of the purposes of the food program wih two bushels of wheat for every bushel needed in 1942 any increase over the normal arrn tion on the acreage allott edle p result in dangerous surpluses he said A two year supply of wheat with a good share of it in storage under loan insures the nation against want but beyond that additional dit ional surpluses become dangerous to the price structure of wheat then too cropland devoted growing of wheat which could have been used in growing crops to meet the needs of the food program is in a way working against the needs of the nation for defense our soil must be safeguarded too it is definitely a waste of soil resources said mr barton to grow a crop that is not needed he also pointed out that were it not for the protection of th the eten rn program a and n d t the h e pro pr cteT at i of marketing quotas wheat an p ees would probably be at world levels and that with wheat at 30 or 35 cents cenis a bushel there be any desire to increase farmers who exceed acreage allotments lot ments are helping defeat the very thing that makes wheat growing so attractive he quoted quota d the recommendation of the field crops committee of the utah food for freedom Free dorre conference as follows the wh alfe eaf a tm will be about 12 less than for 1941 and later allotments may be still lower the committee recommends that every effort be made madeko to conform with this phase of the crop adjustment program every utah farmer should be informed that there is not in the united states a great deal more wheat than will probably be needed in 1942 and that the price received for wheat crop is affected by national markets the committee points out that the most profitable opportunity for reduction in wheat acreage is on irrigated lands where possible every eff effort ort should be made to plant retired dryland dry land wheat acreage to grasses such as crested wheat smooth brome slender wheat western wheat grass and alfalfa in favorable sections |