Increased Compliance Predicted In Coming Season 



that failure to plant a commodity for 

 harvest in at least one of these years 

 was due to flood or drouth. 



I 



^^^"N^EGARDLESS of what congress 

 ^^^U may do to change or amend 



J\ the present farm act, it is safe 

 to assume that the 1939 crop adjust- 

 ment program will be administered as 

 annouced and provided in the AAA 

 of 1938." 



Corn, wheat, and soil depleting al- 

 lotments for '39 are now in the hands 

 of farmers. The adjustment adminis- 

 tration has kept its word that the allot- 

 ments would be out in ample time 

 before spring planting. Individual 

 farm a^liotments are substantially the 

 same as those for the previous year 

 although some effort was made to bring 

 about better equality between farms. 

 However, no program as complex as 

 is necessary to get the desired results 

 can possibly be free from inequalities. 

 Yet this is no reason why farmers 

 should withhold their cooperation. 

 Despite inequalities and error, there is 

 more to be gained than lost in cooper- 

 ating to keep crop surpluses under con- 

 trol. 



Corn 9c Bu. 



The 1939 payment rate on corn is 

 9c per bu. on the normal yield on al- 

 lotted acres with an additional 5c to 6c 

 parity payment promised to bring the 

 total to I4c to 15c per bu. The crop 

 payment on wheat is 17c with an ad- 

 ditional 10c to 12c parity payment 

 promised, a total of 27c to 29c. These 

 rates are subject to change and will 

 depend to some extent on prices of the 

 basic commodities. Final determina- 

 tion of these rates are expected to be 

 made in February. 



The payment rate for general soil de- 

 pleting crop compliance in Illinois is an- 

 nounced at $1.10 per acre. The rate of 

 payment for soil conserving crops is 50c 

 an acre and the rate for soil-building 

 practices is $1.50 per unit. By applying 

 these figures to your individual farm al- 

 lotment, you can get a fairly accurate es- 

 timate of compliance payments for the 

 new crop year. It is assumed, of course, 

 that congress will appropriate the 

 money to make the payments possible. 

 Thus far, the government never has 

 failed to deliver on its promises. 



Farmers who exceed their acreage 

 allotments will be subject to deductions 

 from their computed payments, 40c a 

 bu. for corn and 50c a bu. for wheat, 

 general soil-depleting crops $8 an acre, 

 and |1.50 per unit for failing to meet 

 the soil-building goal. 



Small farms get a break in the '39 

 program. An attempt has been made 



to liberalize their allotments to assure 

 sufficient feed and food crops to care 

 for livestock and family needs without 

 being penalized. Farmers with corn 

 allotments under 8 acres may elect to 

 have their farms classified as non-al- 

 lotment farms. On these farms corn 

 will be treated as a general soil-deplet- 

 ing crop for the purpose of payment 

 and deductions for exceeding the corn 

 acreage allotment would not be made 

 unless the acreage of corn exceeds 8 

 acres. Similar provisions apply in most 

 areas for wheat. As much as three acres 

 of commercial vegetables may be grown 

 on any non-allotment farm without de- 

 ductions. Where the total soil-depleting 

 allotment is less than 20 acres, exclud- 

 ing cotton, farms may be considered 

 as non-general allotment farms and 

 earn all payments through soil-build- 

 ing practices rather than be planting 

 within the allotment. Payments of less 

 than $200 will be increased upon the 

 same basis as in the 1938 program. 



In 1939 there will be a strict classi- 

 fication of wheat as a soil-depleting 

 crop. Formerly wheat for certain pur- 

 poses could be exempted from the 

 soil-depleting classification. S m al 1 

 grains used as nurse crops will not be 

 classified as soil-depleting if the grain 

 crop is cut for hay and a good stand 

 of legumes and perennial grasses is 

 established in 1939. 



Price adjustment payments based on 

 1939 plantings will be made to winter 

 wheat growers in early spring accord- 

 ing to a recent announcement. These 

 payments will be made from the fund 

 of $212,000,000 appropriated by the 

 Price Adjustment Act of 1938. 



The rate of payment will be deter- 

 mined in February and in no case may 

 it exceed the difference between the 

 average farm price and 75 per cent of 

 the parity price during the past seven 

 months. 



Price adjustment payments also will 

 be made for corn and other basic crops. 

 The rate for wheat is estimated at 10 

 to 12 cents per bushel and for corn 

 five to six cents per bushel. The rate 

 on cotton will be 1.6 to 1.8 cents per 

 pound. 



Any farmer is eligible for these pay- 

 ments if the acreage planted to the 

 commodity on his farm for harvest in 

 1939 is not in excess of the allotment 

 established for the farm under the 1939 

 program and if the commodity was 

 planted on the farm for harvest in '38 

 or '39, or the county committee finds 



50 HAPPY YEARS 

 Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Thompson, Adams 

 county, celebrated their Golden Wedding 

 anniversary, January 23. This pictiue was 

 taken Christmas Day at their home on 

 the iarm. Mr. Thompson was president of 

 the lAA irom 1923 to 1926, president ol 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation 

 from 1924 to 1931 and was a member ei 

 the Federal Farm Board. 



1883 Tenants Bu> Farms 



Aieraging 130 Acres 



A survey of loans made during the 



first year's operation of the Bankhead- 

 Jones Farm Tenant Act shows that 

 1,885 farm tenants, sharecroppers and 

 laborers obtained funds to buy farms 

 of their own, averaging 130 acres each, 

 says the Farm Security Administration. 

 The average loan to finance the farm 

 purchase was $4,890, but the average 

 borrower sp>ent only $4,077 for the 

 farm itself, using an additional $804 

 for repairs and improvements to the 

 property. Incidental expenses such as 

 legal fees, land appraisal and mortgage 

 recording costs absorbed the balance of 

 the loan as well as an average of $42 

 invested by each borrower. 



Congress appropriated $10,000,000 

 under the Act for the first year of 

 operation which ended last July. It 

 authorized $25,000,000 for the cur- 

 rent fiscal year, which Farm Security 

 officials estimate will provide for al- 

 most 5,000 additional purchase loans. 



One issue of the lAA RECORD re- 

 quires 16,713 pounds of paper, or more 

 than eight tons. 



FEBRUARY. 1939 



