| Show OPA allows farmers traditional markup mark up farmer producers of legume and grass seeds have an added incentive to harvest every pound of grass and legume seeds possible this year to meet critical needs at home and abroad in the OPAs announcement that in sales to planters farmers may now take mark ups ranging from to 5 per hundredweight over their basic maximum prices depending upon the type of seed this markup was granted farmer producers after the war food administration advised OPA that it was traditional dit ional in this field present farmer producer prices per hundredweight dweight on grass and legume seeds in retail sales to farmers with the additional r harge charge which they make in sales of these seeds to planters in parentheses follow northern alfalfa central alfalfa southern alfalfa red clover closer alsike alseike clover and timothy these prices are for seeds 93 99 per cent pure and 90 percent germination the new regulation also malies makes sales to planters by retailers and mail order houses in quantities of five pounds or less exempt from price control and exempts purchases bases by the U S government or any of its agencies in emergency situations from the provisions of the regulation this added financial incentive toward increased harvesting of legume ind and grass seeds follows closely the congressional action which enables the agricultural adjustment agency to make unlimited payments of per acre and special pound payments on alfalfa red clover and alsike alseike clover under its practice for the harvesting of legumes and grass seeds |
