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Iowa farmers cut corn and sorghum acreage under emergency program
Iowa farmers in the government's feed grain emergency program will reduce 1961 corn and grain sorghum acreage by about 2.93 million acres from the 1959-60 average. About 108,112 farms, or 60 percent of Iowa feed grain farms, signed up by June 1, with 70 percent of the state's 1959-60 corn acreage in participating farms. Nationally, diversions total about 26.7 million acres.
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