The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-06-22
PLANFOR CONTROL
OF WHEAT OUTPUT
TO BE TRIED SOON
County Organizations to AID.
minister Act Through
County Agents
MAY PAY IN SEPTEMBER
Redwood County, With 100000
Bushel Output, vitality
Interested

A plan to apply the agricultural ad-
justment act of congress to the 1888,
1894 and 1885 wheat crops to bring
supply and demand into balance and
at the same time pay the farmer a
reasonable price was announced this
week by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Redwood county, which produces
in the vicinity of 100000 bushels of
wheat a year, is expected to have a
wheat production control organiza-
ton furctioning through the county
agents office. Fundamental features
of the plan as sent out by the depart
ment are:
Cash benefits will be paid to Min
nesota wheat farmers this fall, prob
ably by September Is, under the
plan. Two-thirds is to be paid this
fall and the remaining one-third after
the spring planting season.
The wheat adjustment program
provides for paying cash benefits to
farmers on the basis of the percent
age of their average wheat crop for
the last three years, which is domest-
ically consumed as food, upon agree
ment of farmers to reduce their acre
ages. Processing taxes are to be
levied to pay the costs.
Yearly Cash Benefits
The plan will be to pay cash bene-
fits each year on the allotments OF
each farmer for 1888, 1884 and 1885,
provided the farmer agrees to re-
duce his planted acreage for the 1884
and 1885 crops by percentage that
will subsequently be determined by
the secretary of agriculture, but will
not be more than 20 per cent of the
average acreage planted by the farm
er in the last three years.
Approximately a million particl-
pating wheat farmers should be at
fected. The administration will be
thoroughly decentralized, with farm
ers organizing their own county COM
mittees to take charge of local details
of administration. The farmers will
choose their own men to handle the
county program. Each county group
will pay it's own expenses, to be
charged to each farmer according to
his allotment. The more economical
ly the local unit is operated, the less
it will cost the farmers.
The administration will use the
agricultural extension service in or
ganizing farmers under the plan.
County agents will take an active
part in the organization and are in
position to give information on the
wheat plan.
The average amount of wheat that
farmers have grown in the last three
years will determine the basis of
their allotments. The government
has official records on state and coun-
ty production. Averages for the crop
years 1928 to 1892 will be computed,
and upon this average production and
acreage the allotment for each coun-
ty will be made. The county COM
mittee will have each farmer list his
wheat acreage and production for the
last three years. The committee will
take an average of this, and then al
lot to each farmer his proportionate
share of the amount allotted to the
county.
30 Cents Per Bushel
The wheat farmer who wishes to
participate in the plan is to join his
local organization as soon as it IS
formed, turn in the figures on his
production and acreage planted for
the last three years, and agree to re-
duce his acreage by the desired
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