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Conversion of program volume to work units, labor, and fund requirements

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TABLE II.-Conversion of program volume to work units, labor, and fund

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This appropriation account for administrative expenses of ASCS National, Commodity, State, and county offices is to finance programs administered by, and functions delegated to, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. This appropriation account includes transfers from the Commodity Credit Corporation and miscellaneous advances from other accounts.

A brief description of the programs financed from the appropriation and the volume of work performed during fiscal year 1962 under some of the major programs are set forth below. Where available, the 1963 estimated volume of work is shown.

Acreage allotments and marketing quotas.-The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, authorizes production adjustment for designated basic commodities (tobacco, peanuts, wheat, cotton, and rice) through acreage allot

ments and adjustment of supplies through marketing quotas. Marketing quotas must be proclaimed, in the case of wheat, cotton, and rice, when the total supply reaches a specified level in relation to normal supply, for tobacco, when the total supply exceeds the reserve supply level, and for peanuts, each year regardless of the supply situation.

Acreage allotment and marketing quota programs are in effect on the 1963 crop of all designated basic commodities. It is assumed that they will also be in effect on the 1964 crop of all designated basic commodities. The following data relate to the 1963 fiscal year.

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Agricultural conservation program.-The objectives of this program, authorized by sections 7 to 16(a), inclusive, and section 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, include (1) restoring and improving soil fertility, (2) reducing erosion caused by wind and water, and (3) conserving water on the land.

Cost-sharing assistance is furnished to individual farmers and ranchers in the 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands for carrying out approved soilbuilding and soil- and water-conserving practices on their farms. This assistance represents only a part of the cost of carrying out the practice. The farmer bears the balance of the cost and in addition, furnishes the labor and management necessary to carry out the practice. The following data relate to the 1961 ACP: Number of payees.

Total number of farms__

Number of participating farms__

Number of counties in program-

1 Excludes Naval Stores and emergency practices.

11, 257, 079 4,973, 4×4 1, 216, 556 3, 070

Conservation reserve program.-This program, authorized by the Soil Bank Act, is a program under which farmers voluntarily contracted to take land out of production for a specified number of years and to devote such land to conservation uses. The 1960 program was the last program under which new contracts were authorized.

Under the program, producers receive annual payments for the contract period on the land taken out of production and assistance in cash or conservation ma terials and services for carrying out approved conservation practices. It is estimated that by the end of fiscal year 1963 almost all of the practices to be carried out under the contracts will have been completed. Data for the 1962 program are as follows:

Number of farms having contracts.
Number of acres in program_.
Number of counties in program_-

269, 644 25, 655, 625 2,872

Special feed grain and wheat stabilization programs.--Public Law 87-5 authorized a special agricultural conservation program for the 1961 crop of corn and grain sorghums. The Agricultural Act of 1961 continued the program and broadened it to include barley and also provided for a special program for the 1962 crop of wheat. The Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 provides for special programs on the 1963 crop on corn, grain sorghums, barley, and wheat. The chief objectives of these programs are to (1) increase farm income, (2) prevent further buildup of surplus stocks and, if possible, to reduce such stocks, and (3) reduce program costs of price-support activities.

Feed grain program, 1962

Number of farms with base acreage..

Number of farms signed up--.

Number of intended diverted acres-

3, 182, 269

1, 341, 601

32, 684, 300

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