GENERAL FARM PROGRAM HI 



Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



In making allowances, by counties, for the acreage diverted from 

 corn production under previous adjustment programs, the acreage 

 diverted under such previous programs is determinerl for each county 

 on the basis of agricultural adjustment and agricultural conservation 

 program records. 



.Nfr. Pace. Let me interrupt you: Does the language, 10-year pro- 

 duction, incorporate any adjustment under the acreage diverted? 



Mr. Walker. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. What was the last year? 



Mr. W^alker. 1943 would be the last year; and as a base period, for 

 instance, if we were determining allotments for 1950 crop we would 

 use the 1939-48 average production. That would mean that the 

 years of 1939, 1940. 1941, 1942, and 1943 would receive adjustments 

 for diversions under previous programs. This diversion would be 

 adding back the actual corn acreage planted in each of the calendar 

 years. 



Mr. Pace. W^hat was the nature of that diversion? 



Mr. Walker. Under the previous allotment programs, if you 

 planted within the allotment, a reduction would have been made from 

 your usual acreage. Assume your usual acreage was 60 acres for the 

 farm, and the adjustment was down to 45 acres, and if you planted 

 only 45 acres as indicated by your allotment, the diversion then was 

 the difference between the 45 and the 60, which would be 15 acres. 



Mr. Pace. Do you have those estimates? 



Mr. Walker. They are in the county offices and in the State 

 offices. 



Mr. Pace. For 1943? 



Mr. W^alker. Yes. 



Mr. Pace. For 1943? 



Mr. Walker. Oh, yes. 



Mr. Pace. How did you get it? 



Mr. Walker. I may not be correct as to 1943, but we do have the 

 information for other years. 



Mr. Andresen. 1943 was the last year when there was acreage 

 control? 



Mr. Walker. That is when it was modified because of the war 

 effort. 



Mr. Pace. Proceed, Mr. Walker. 



Mr. Walker. Such diverted acreage is then credited to each county 

 for the respective years in which these programs were operative. For 

 the apportionment of the 1943 national corn acreage allotrnent — the 

 last year in which allotments were established — such diversion credit 

 was determined for the years 1934 to 1941, inclusive. 



Mr. Pace. Suppose in the year you gave the farmer a corn-acreage 

 allotment. Did j^ou tell him what he could do with the diverted 

 acreage? 



Mr. Walker. Not under the allotment program itself, but under 

 the ACP program. There were provisions for conservation practices, 

 but there was no direction as to the specific use of the 15 acres, as to 

 whether they should lay out, or be put in other feed crops, or in some- 

 thing else. In other words, he could have planted all of that acreage 

 that was diverted to some other crop. 



