1939 Farm Program 



£ BIG cut in wheat acreage 



^ UAt allotments, probably little 



^^y ^ I change in corn acreage al- 

 lotments, increased benefit payments, and 

 no change (thus far announced) in 

 method of figuring crop and soil deplet- 

 ing allotments on individual farms are 

 the salient features of the 1939 AAA 

 program of interest to Illinois farmers. 



WHEAT — This program calls for 

 a cut of 31 per cent in acreage. A 

 heavy signup is expected. Why.' First, 

 wheat farmers do not relish going prices 

 of a little better than 50c a bu. They 

 know that the '38 crop, plus carry-over 

 will run this country two years if we 

 don't raise another bushel. Secondly, 

 they know that the only way to restore 

 $1 wheat or better, is to adjust acreage 

 and supply to demand at that price. 

 And third, if Congress appropriates the 

 money next year, soil conservation and 

 price-adjustment payments are estimated 

 at 26 to 30c a bu. on the farm's normal 

 yield on alloted acres, a sure return 

 not to be passed up lightly. 



For example, a farm that has been 

 growing 60 acres of wheat should get 

 an allotment of around 42 acres (esti- 

 mated 30% cut). If the normal yield 

 is 20 bu. an acre x 42 A. equals 840 bu. ; 

 840 bu. X 26c equals $218.40, the com- 

 puted payment. Local expenses for ad- 

 ministering the program would be de- 

 ducted. 



The '39 program contemplates figur- 

 ing the maximum payment possible on 

 each farm so that farmers will have 

 more accurate information on this point 

 early in the season. 



Only cooperators are eligible for loans 

 on wheat and corn. This is a point that 

 will be more clearly understood by next 

 spring, a feature that is bound to influ- 

 ence the '39 signup. 



CORN — Payments to cooperating 

 farmers are expected to run 8 to 10c a 

 bushel, plus a price-adjustment payment 

 of 5 to 6c .. a total of 13 to l6c per bu. 

 on the farms normal yield on alloted 

 acres. 



Example: If normal com acreage on 

 a farm has been 60 A., a 20 per cent cut 

 (estimated) would result in an allot- 

 ment of 48 A. Assume normal yield is 

 40 bu. per acre, then 48 x 40 bu. equals 

 1920 bu. x 13c equals $249.60, the com- 

 puted payment. Payments for soil con- 

 serving crops and practices would be 

 extra. This program like that of wheat 

 IS contingent on appropriations by con- 

 gress. 



What AAA administrators will do 

 about ironing out inequalities in allot- 



ments between farms because of crop 

 acreage history which penalizes good 

 farmers has not been announced. This 

 is a tough problem, perhaps just one of 

 those things you can't do much about. 

 If the high history farmers have to take 

 all the cuts, many will not cooperate. 

 Then you get little acreage reduction. If 

 the payments go to the low history farm- 

 ers who make little or no acreage cuts, 

 the money is sfjent, you get no results, 

 and the price-raising aspect of the plan 

 fizzles out. 



Acres devoted to garden for some con- 

 sumption will not be included in soil 

 depleting allotments next year. 



Crop classification and soil-building 

 practices next year will be similar to 

 those in the '38 program with slight 

 exceptions. One exception is that land 

 planted to oats, barley, rye, emmer, speltz 

 or mixtures of these crops will not be 

 classified as soil depleting when such 

 crops are used as nurse crops for legumes 

 or perennial grasses of which a good 

 stand is established in 1939, and the 

 nurse crop is cut green for hay and is 

 not harvested for grain. 



Jersey county 4-H clubs won five 

 dairy group championships at the Illi- 

 nois State Fair this year including 

 Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, 

 and Milking Shorthorn. Such a record 

 has never been equalled. 



It looks like higher wool prices from 



now on says a recent government re- 

 port. 



NOTICE 



niinois Agricultural Association 

 Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in 

 connection with the annual meet- 

 ings oi all County Farm Bureaus to 

 be held during the month oi Sep- 

 tember, 1938, at the hour and place 

 to be determined by the Board of 

 Directors of each respectire County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing oi such County Farm 

 Bureau, and who are also qualified 

 voting members of Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, shall elect a dele- 

 gate or delegates to represent such 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation and vote on all matters be- 

 fore the next annual meeting or any 

 spedol meeting of the association, 

 including the election of officers and 

 directors as provided for in the By- 

 Laws oi the Association. 



During September, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in Christian, leffer- 

 son and Macon Counties. 



(Sgd.) Paul E. Mathias. 

 Aug. 20. 1938 Corporate Sec'y. 



The Canadian Wheat Board has 



E egged the price of wheat at 80c a 



ushel, basis No. 1 Northern at Ft. 

 William. 



Illinois ranks first among all the 

 states in membership of farmers' co- 

 operative associations. The Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and County 

 Farm Bureaus organized a big majority 

 of the 645 Illinois co-ops with a com- 

 bined membership of 304,328 covered 

 by the Farm Credit Administration 

 survey. 



Sixty-four livestock outlook meetings, 



starting August 23 in Hancock county 

 and continuing until October 7, arc 

 being sponsored by the Illinois Live- 

 stock Marketing Association in cooper- 

 ation with the University of Illinois 

 and Producer Commission agencies. 

 Discussions will include the general 

 economic situation, the feeding situa- 

 tion and fitting livestock into the farm 

 plan. S. F. Russell, ILMA Secretary, 

 urges livestock men to get the dates of 

 the outlook meeting in their county 

 from their Farm Bureaus. 



With December new crop corn 

 quoted at Illinois points at 32 to 33c 

 a bushel, the prospective corn loan to 

 AAA cooperators of around 57c looks 

 better and better. 



The 1938 AAA program for com 



helped to bring about an adjustment of 

 15% in corn acreage planted in the 

 corn belt this year. 



Limestone pays returns of Sll or 



more a ton when corn is worth 50c 

 a bu. and other crops sell at corre- 

 sponding prices, says Clyde Linsley, 

 soils extension specialist, Urbana. 



Much corn in northeastern Illinois 



will not mature unless we have a late 

 frost says the Illinois Department of 

 Agriculture. A good corn crop, es- 

 pecially in the central third of the state, 

 and a bumper soy bean crop is the out- 

 look for Illinois. Oat yields were dis- 

 app>ointing, wheat fair to good. 



There were 12 per cent more cattle 

 on feed Aug. 1 this year than last in the 

 corn belt states says the Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics. 



SEPTEMBER. 1938 



