The Sidney herald., 1958-04-24
ASC Aids
Conservation In
Richland County
BY Mrs. Verna Frost,
Office Manager

OIIlCt
We have several programs to
administer in the Agricultural
Sterilization and Conservation
Office. These programs include
price support, soil bank, sugar
and wool payments, storage pro-
grams, and agricultural conserva-
ton practices. This article will
be directed mostly toward the
ACP phase of Conservation and
how it has affected Richland
county. The ACP program offers
practices which are available to
the farmers and aids in the con-
servation of the land. $75,000.0o
has been allocated for use in
Richland county for cost-sharing
practices performed under ACP
for 1858.
In Richland county alone 716
acres of land were leveled in 1857
with cost-shares amounting to
$22,362.69. With the proper lev
cling and drainage systems, farm
ers are benefiting by getting bet
ter production with less land
erosion. ~S5217.70 has been used
for cost-shares that have been
paid on dams and bikes and has
helped hold the moisture run-off
in the spring and from rains
throughout the season. If drain
age bitches are to benefit more
than n farmer, several opera
tors may sign a request for a
pooling agreement. Funds are
available for these community
type projects whenever such
projects can more effectively
meet a conservation problem and
which directly affects more than
one farm.
Sixty stockwater wells have
been dug bringing more water to
pasture lands that could not 9TH
erwise be utilized. These wells
are located where they will bring
about the desired protection of
the vegetative cover through bet
ter land management.
Another popular practice in
Richland county is the stubble
mulch practice. Operators e
ceived $12,884.82 for 32,212 acres
of stubble mulch in Richland
county in 1857. The results from
this practice speak for themselves.
With a good quantity of stubble
left on the field not only wind
erosion is checked but also water
erosion.
S16,717.20 was spent on pas
ture grass seedlings which is an
other of the many practices Of
fered. A list of the kinds of seed
and the proportions of the mix
lures of seed eligible for cost
sharing may be obtained at the
local ASC office. This pasture
building practice improves the
soil structure, permeability or
water-holding capacity and helps
to retard wind and water erosion.
Provisions have been made in
1858 whereby payments earned
by operators can be paid directly
to the contractor performing the
work if he has been approved
by the local ASC committee. This
is known as the ems part of the
ACP program. Persons carrying
out ACP practices will benefit
because of the fact that contrac-
tors a be paid the ACP pay
ment promptly which in many
cases will eliminate the necessity
of operators securing financing
from other sources. Operators
payments are made after July 1,
1858 while approved contractors
may be paid Immediately upon
completion of the work.
There is a list of practices for
which cost-shares are available.
A pamphlet will soon be sent out
to all operators as soon as more
data is received from headquar-
tiers. This pamphlet will list the
practices and their payments very
briefly and if an operator is in
terested in any of these, he may
stop in at the local ASC office
and get detailed descriptions.
There is n very important
factor which we wish to stress
abeut the cost-sharing practices
and that is "Be sure to sign the
request for the practice you are
interested in BEFORE any work
is started" This is a "must" as
no payments can be made if
this has not been done.