The Sidney herald., 1963-05-15

Both sides are pretty well
represented In the Herald and
now it's up to the farmers to
decide the fate of the govern
ment's supply-management pro-
gram.
Polling places for the MAY
II referendum on marketing
quotas for the 1864 crop of
wheat were announced today
by Fred Iversen, chairman of
the Richland Agricultural Sta
bllization and Conservation
County Committee.
Iversen explains that wheat
growers eligible to vote in the
referendum include Cd all pro-
ducerS of Is acres or more who
have an interest in a 1854
farm wheat acreage allotment.
and CD those farm operators
Cand other wheat growers ON
their farms) with allotments of
less than Is acres who elected
by May Is to participate as an
allotment grower in the 1864
wheat program.
Such am election was made
by signing in the space provid-
ed ON the back of the allot-
ment notice for the farm and
filing the notice at the Asses
county office.
If at least two-thirds of the
growers voting in the referen-
dunn approve quotas for 1854
crop wheat, price support will
be available to growers parti-
cipating in the wheat program
at national averages of So per
buShel Con "certificated" wheat
80 per cent of the normal
yield of the allotment acres. but
not more than the normal yield
of the planted acres) and $1.3O
per buShel on other Cfnoncerti-
ficated') wheat grown within
the allotment; and program pay
ments will be made for divert
ing wheat acreage to an APP
proved conserving use.
Marketing quota penalties
will apply to the excess"
wheat of allotment growers
who do not keep within their
farm a1lotments. The market
ing quota penalty will apply
to farms with allotments of
less than Is acres whose opera
tors did not choose them to be-
come allotment farms by May
Is if the wheat acreage exceeds
the small-farm base.
If the quotas are not ap-
proved by the necessary two
thirds of the growers voting,
there will be no quotas, no
marketing penalties, no diver
sion payments and NO "certifi-
cates' for the 1864 crop of
wheat. Price support to grow
ers who keep within their
wheat acreage allotmentS would
drop to so per cent of parity,
according to U.S.D.A.
Proclamation of wheat mar
keting quotas is directed by
legislation whenever it is de-
termined that the supply Of
wheat likely would be exces-
sive in the absence of wheat
marketing quotas. The supply
of wheat for the 1964-65 mar
keting year, without quotas,
has been estimated to be 1885
million bushels-more than
double the estimated domestic
disappearance and exports, ac-
cording to U.S.D.A.
Word has been received by
the Richland County Asses
whereby flax may be planted
on acreage diverted under the
1868 Wheat Sterilization and
Feed Grain Program, in lieu
of the diversion payment.
1t will not be necessary for
a producer to notify the County
Office of his intentions to plant
flax on his diverted acres
since any acreage divert
ed to such crops will be de-
termined at the time the di-
verted acres are measured.
Producers must be sure that
the reporter is aware of the
flax acreage that is being des-
ignated as the diverted acres.
Ballots may be cast by eli
gible voters from 8 am. to 7
pm, local time, on Tuesday,
May 81, at the following places: