The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-29
Farmers Will Get
Payments on Soil
For Stated Change
County Flax Growers May
Earn Payment Under Con-
servatiOn Program

Sheridan county farmers coop
Grating in the agricultural conser-
walton program will receive the
rate per acre as established for
their farms, for diverting Is per
cent of their soil depicting acre
age to soil-conserving crops and
for soil-building practices provided
the general totals of their soil-de-
plotting and soil-conserving acre
ages meet certain standards, Coun-
ty Agent M. J. Peterson, says.
If farmers have less than Is Der
cent or the minimum, in soil-con-
serving crops, or if they plant
more soil-depleting base acreages,
their total payments will be sub
ject to deductions.
The reason that there are de-
auctions is that underplantings Of
soll-conserving crops or over
paintings of soil-depleting crops
would defet the purpose of the
progrm. There is no control Of
what farmers may plant, but if
they underplant soil-conservine
crops or over-plant soil-depleting
crops, they cannot expect to re-
ceive full payments.
Deductions for having less than
the specified acreages of soil-con-
serving crops on the farm will DE
computed at one and one-half
times the soil-conserving payment
for the farm, times the number of |
acres the soil-conserving acreage
is below the minimum.
The deductions for over-planting
soil-depleting crops will be the
number of acres over planted times
the per-acre rate for the farm.
If a farmer needed 20 acres of
soil-cOnserving crops to qualify for
full payment, but had only Is
acres, and the per-acre rate for
his farm was So an acre, the total
payments, which he would other
wise have received, would be sub
Jet to deduction of 2 acres times !
~ Nv times the acre rate), or !
$4,000.
If his soil-depleting base was 100 }
lcres and he planted 1O2 acres, and !
i the per-acre rate was So. the I
payments which he would other n
wise have received would be re- S
Iuced bv 2 times SO, or SIG. {
Flax growers in Sheridan coun- n
y may earn flax payments under Il
ne agricultural conservation pro- G
ram without making any reduc- Fl
ION in their normal flax acreage. II
'ounty Agent M. J. Peterson SAYS. 81
Special provisions have been b,
dopted for flax because this is a T
crop and there is no in II
entlon of discouraging its produc- d,
on. The principal requirement ia
or flax payments is that the 81
armer have a companion" acre n,
ge of soil-conserving crops equal
at least one-fifth of his flax q,
,reage. For example, a producer g,
it'll % acres in flax would need T.
show 5 acres in soil-conserving IL,
ops such as alfalfa and sweet or
over, in order to get the pay u
ents. P' -
The flax payment will be 20 Al
.nts a bushel on the normal WELD TT,
each farmers acreage allot- -
ent. The acreage allotment will tu
the acreage the farmer plants Fs
the total acreage planted bv nj
! farmers does not exceed the fiI
tai estimated as necessary. at G.
'rmal yields, to produce 10 mil. -
N bushels of flax. If the total o ~
reage for the country is larger t u"
an that estimated as necessary ' S.i'
produce 10 million bushels. 81 81 Of
rmal yields, each farmers acre CO. ~
e allotment will be his pro-rata e"i
are of the acreage estimateJ -
cessary to produce 10 million 4 tI1s
shells. iiAAiOl ths
In order to receive the full nav T TIE
mt on his flax. q farmer E1r;il Al. In
ed his companion" ACREAGE ~ Ina Ina
l-conservlng crops equal to on 70 ~
cent of his flax ACREAGE on ~ III:
ADDITION he would need to have DIV DIV
ieast 10 per cent as much acre q
: IN soil-conserving crops &c A. I
re was acreage in his general Ina Ina
base. If he had lees - Ils'l
n this his payments world he II
Ject to deductions. 70
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