Farmers Should Review FSA's Letter

Farmers Should Review FSA's Letter

August is drawing to a close and for most wheat farmers across the region, they are either done with harvest or winding down. About a month ago Farm Service Agency sent all farmers participating in FSA programs a letter reporting their farm’s base acres, counter-cyclical yields, and planted and considered planted (P&CP) covered commodities planted on the farm for each year 2008 - 2012.
CliftonLarsonAllen Partner and Farm CPA Today Blogger Paul Neiffer reminds farmers that it is important to review that letter and contact their local FSA office with any needed updates.
Neiffer: “It is very important for them to look at that and verify the number of acres per farm. Because many farmers actually have multiple farms, depending on entities and so on. So they need to carefully review those acreages, carefully review the CC yield and base acres and that will allow them to decide what they want to do as far as electing to change base acres or electing to update their yield.”
If farmers do not respond to the letter, their reported current base acres and CC yields will be used in the future for PLC or ARC programs. Neiffer adds
Neiffer: “The only thing they really need to do currently review is the planted acres to determine if they are correct. The base acres are in the system, the CC yields in the system but as far as this letter is concerned really what they need to look at is making sure that they have the correct amount of planted acres by crop.”

 

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