Show wheat curb i looms loom wheat allot allotment nent 6 planned for 1950 all farmers who have not signed up for the wheat allotment program are urged to report to the ACA office in monticello utah to report their crop averages for t the I 1 i years 1941 to 1949 inclusive so that a wheat allotment can be established for their farm with all the discussion going on about farm prices at what level i and a ild 7 some people peaple pe aple are ar a az why support farm at alap all As bacig background aund to these questions mr wilfard A frost chairman of the san juan county agricultural conservation committee makes the following observation j I 1 the count rys welfare N is bs beef f serve served d when there isan abundance of fco d but it ss i s impossible with tile the hazards of weather disease and insects to produce just exactly the right amount of food to make sure there is plenty farmers have to take chances on producing too loo much but when there is toot much without price supports the tanner suffers prices go 0 down dowa and often lie has to produce at a loii price supports relieve hirn him or of the threat of bankruptcy and the farmer is encouraged to produce abundantly 2 banners Fa as ep arate operators I 1 of nearly six million farms each jan an independent production unit i j are arc defenseless in protecting thern them I 1 selves froin the effects of surplus cs price supports are needed to 1 protect farmers from the wide i fluctuations in price that result from shifts in yields and demands 3 price supports help to stabilize production as well vs PS price extreme price fluctuations lead to 1 price shifts many are forced to increase increase production of certain commodities in a vain effort to meet fixed costs if there is s material shift to other commodities 1110 modi cities ties it only is adens the distress dis front 4 price supports finein me m a ni more 0 r stable farm income in corne this is important po por tant not only ill to tile the fa m fame faini alsi but to the businessman ort ori main street the farmer is better ble able to to pas pay his bilu bills and to buy tile tho bilings thill s aich illich gnip ove farm living livina standards the resulting stability means more permanent continued on oil page aa ALLOTMENT I 1 continued from page 1 tenure for the farmer and a great 1 stability for the 5 with i a more stable income the farmer has more incentive and is better betic r able to farm for the future as well as the present lie ile is better able to carry out a year af after terear year consistent soil anil and water conservation program ile he forced to interrupt liis his conservation efforts every time there are price slumps thus wiping out the pro i already made by inability to keep up the work vo k previously sta stai ted in mr frosts opinion consumers are the main beneficiaries of price supports because aca use t they aey resu result t in in more stable production at lower lover and more stable prices in the long run reduced ability of the soil to produce must be reflected in higher prices to consumers if acreage allotments and marketing quotas become necessary next year for wheat the individual farm allotments will be set up by the local farmer committees according to J vern hopkin chairman Chair main of the utah production and marketing administration committee this is a vital point in the nations agricultural program the chairman chaiem an emphasizes he points out that when farmers farmers are producing more of a commodity than can be marketed and amp Is ic reserves have been set up they 1 know now that adjustments should be made but as individual farmers they are arc helpless in making the cc ec essary adjustments each farm has been laid out to grow grov particular crops machinery has been accumulated to grow these crops on most f fotis ns it is not por possible sible for the farr farn to shift his entire farm from one crop to another farmers are arc aware of this but without a farm program which pio provides vides a means for unified action there is no moans means for assuring desired results under the program the acreage that eliat is needed to assure abundance without wasteful surpluses is divided equitable among the farmers of a community a county and the country as a whole and no one is better able to set up the individual allotments for a farm the chairman states than the elected committeemen they are arc far farmers mens they know the problems confronting their neighbors they are elected each year the fax farmers iners affected by the allotments they set are the onesi ones who elect them and no one can impose marketing quotas upon the farmers the law requires that two thirds of the fa farl mers voting in an announced referendum must approve marketing quotas before they can be put into effect |