The following appeared in The Rock County Star-Herald on Feb. 2, 1950.
County Receives Larger Allotment For 1950 Soil Conservation Practices
No Definite Information Available as Yet About 1950 Corn Acreage Cuts
The 1950 appropriations for agriculture conservation practices in Rock county will be $51,600, about $2,000 more than in 1949, Leonard Arp, Rock county PMA chairman, announced on Monday.
The funds will be available for payment to farmers who are carrying out conservation practices for the 1950 program, Mr. Arp said. An official announcement of practices which must be followed to qualify farmers for payments has not yet been received in his office, he added, but it is expected that the program will be very similar to that of 1949.
Largest appropriation to counties in this area will be Murray county’s $89,100. Nobles county will receive $75,800; Jackson will get $65,600; Cottonwood, $64,800; and Pipestone, $56,600.
Corn Acreage Data
No information has been received about corn acreage adjustments for Rock county so far. “However,” Mr. Arp stated, “we have been informed that there is to be a cut of 19.7 percent in acreage for the entire commercial corn area.” The state of Minnesota has not yet announced acreage allocations for the individual counties. Mr. Arp would not speculate about when these allocations could be expected to be made.
Mr. Arp set the three-year average of acres in the county planted in corn at “approximately 110,000.” He said that the figure could not be entirely accurate because some farmers still refuse to submit any information about their farms and in other cases it has been impossible to secure complete information about crops.
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