Table 7. High gross agricultural iucoine expected to be earned 



bv resources idled by the Soil Bank Program, compared to 



Soil Bank payments, 1959 and 1960-72 



* Represents no change in income flow into the County. Hay sales are inter-farm 

 transactions within the County. Agricultural Conservation payments are determined 

 institutionally and do not necessarily change in total for the County. 



main the same as they were before the Program because of the way in 

 which payments are determined and distributed. A.C.P. appropriations 

 made by the Congress are divided among the states on the basis of farm 

 resources and conservation needs. State committees divide the funds among 

 counties on a similar base with volume of applications for practice pay- 

 ments as an indication of Conservation needs. Farmers in Coos County 

 have consistently applied for more A.C.P. assistance with conservation 

 practices than funds were available to support. Remaining farmers are 

 thus in a position to obtain larger payments over the ensuing years, as 

 there are fewer operators to share the limited funds. 



Low Income Model. The low gross income expected to have been earned 

 by resources idled by enrollment, if they had not been enrolled, indicates 

 the smallest loss in farm income due to the Soil Bank (Table 8). The 

 effect of the Program on 1959 farm income under these assumptions are 

 the same as those for the high expected income. However, over the re- 

 maining contract period, under the low-income estimate, $731,885 income 

 is foregone by enrolling the land resource in the Soil Bank Program for 

 the $917,000 Soil Bank payments. Gross income is then expected to in- 

 crease by an average of about $14,000 per year if the assumptions that 

 underlie the low estimate properly describes economic conditions in the 

 following years. 



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