The Sidney herald., 1956-08-02
Place
Acreage In
Soil Bank

Richland county farmers hav,
placed 1882 acres under tn,
1856 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve
Chairman Arthur Anderson O
the County Agricultural Stabili.
cation and Conservation commit.
tee said Friday July 27) as the
period for signing agreement.
ended.
The 316 producers who have
signed agreements can al pay
ments totaling $135, 688,67 by
carrying out terms of their agree
ments with the Secretary of Ag-
riculture. Major terms of the
agreements provide that no crop
may be harvested from the Acre
age Reserve during 1856 and that
the acreage may be grazed be-
tween July ~ and August 81,
1856, since Richland county Is
designated a disaster area and
grazing is expressly permitted by
the Secretary of Agriculture.
Purpose of the Acreage Re-
serve, Mr.. Anderson explained,
is to encourage farmers to re-
duce their wheat acreage below
their farm allotment and there
by reduce wheat production.
Payments participating farmers
may earn are based on a mini
mum rate of $500 an acre for
understanding, or on the acreage
reduction multiplied by the nor-
NAL or appraised yield for the
acreage multiplied by the unit"
payment rate. The unit" rate is
so percent of the current wheat
price support rate or, for Rich
land County, $1.15 per bushel.
A total of 114,659 acres had
been placed in the Acreage Re-
serve by Montana farmers ON
20. The payments which
could be earned on this acreage |
total $958, 1922.
The Acreage Reserve program,
operates under the Soil
Bank Law enacted late in May,
continue through 1857, 1858,
ind 1859. 1t has already been
announced that the wheat price
support level and unit" payment
ate for 1857 will be approx
nately the same as for 1856.
details of next years
Program are expected to be an
lounced well ahead of fall wheat
'lanting time.
Farmers in Richland county
Who have signed Soil Bank Acre
.ge Reserve agreements may now
ct their livestock Craze Reserve
ores without risk of losing Soil
sank payments, Chairman Ar
hur Anderson of the County
agricultural Sterilization and
Committee said this
week.
The grazing privilege results
rom the county being declared
drought disaster area for
mergency grazing under pro-
isions of the Soil Bank Act.
he emergency grazing privilege
ill extend through August 81.
will enable operators to make :
laximum use of any forage re- :
on reserved acres, as
ell as forage on other lands /,
lltable for grazing which are in !
to the acreage re- |
rye but could not previously /,
grazed because of the DOS I
that the livestock might :
-aze on Reserved acres and '
,danger the Soil Bank payment. :
There will be some limitations, :
II. Anderson added. For one,
animals doing the grazing !,
ust be owned by the operator
i the farm on which the Re- I
rye acres r located or the
'erator must have a financial Z
terest in them. Secondly, the >
creage Reserve grazed must be
iysically located in this county T
IN one of the other counties
'slgnated for emergency graz I
G under the provisions of the
vi Bank act. 9;
AT the present time, there are
n Montana counties under the Il
ought disaster designation in
1ich eligible farmers and ranch r
S may Craze land placed in n
e 1855 acreage reserve. They
Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fall If
a, McCone, Prairie, Powder #
yer, Richland, Roosevelt and II
-
Several other counties have ~
en- recommended for designa- m
"a