MU Extension to hold Farm Bill Meeting – November 10 in Miner

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University of Missouri Extension will hold a meeting on the Farm Bill on November 10 in Miner, Missouri*.  This informational meeting will provide farmers, landowners, and other interested parties the most up-to-date information on the new farm bill.  The meeting will cover decisions that farmers and landowners need to make in respect to base acre reallocation, yield updating, and PLC, ARC county and individual program choices.  In addition, program decision tools will be demonstrated to assist in making the Farm Bill decisions.    

The meeting for Southeast Missouri will be: 

WHEN:             November 10, 2014

                         10:00am – 2:00pm

WHERE:           Miner Convention Center

                          2610 E. Malone Ave.

                          Miner, MO

                          (I-55 at exit 67 next to the Drury Lodge) 

 

For meal arrangements and handouts we request that you pre-register by one of the following:  call the Scott County Extension office: 573-545-3516, email David Reinbott at reinbottd@missouri.edu, or register at the University of Missouri Conference web site:   http://muconf.missouri.edu/farmbillseminar 

In addition to this meeting, other Farm Bill educational meetings will be held throughout Southeast Missouri this fall and winter.  The regional Corn meeting on December 10 and Soybean meeting on January 14 will include afternoon sessions on Farm Bill topics.  The cotton and rice meetings which are held in February will also include farm bill topics.  

* Additional Farm Bill meetings will be held across the state later in the week.

Click here for printable PDF flyer.

 

Details for UDSA’s Farm Bill Crops Program

Details start to emerge for the USDA’s Farm Bill relative to crop production.

Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack announced the following decision making timeline for each Farm Service Agency (FSA) farm as part of the 2014 Food & Farm Act:

  • September 29th to February 28th is time for paperwork dealing with program yield updating and program acre reallocation to be completed for each FSA farm. Owners have a one-time opportunity to reallocate the farm’s base acres or update yields.
  • November 17th to March 31st is the time for paperwork dealing with program choice for each FSA farm. Producers make an election which will remain in effect for the 2014-2018 crop years, of the following:
    • PLC or ARC County on a covered commodity-by-commodity basis; or
    • ARC Individual for all covered commodities on the farm.
  • Mid April to Summer, 2015 is the time for ARC/PLC Enrollment. This is when producers will sign      contracts to participate in ARC/PLC for 2014 and 2015 crop years.

Now that the periods for making 2014 Farm Bill Decisions have been announced by the Secretary of Agriculture, land owners and producers may want to review and understand programs and their long term implications more thoroughly.

The most pressing decisions at this time is the yield update and base acre reallocation decisions.  Farmland owners and renters received FSA letters during August, 2014. These letters contain the following information for each FSA farm serial number:

  • Current base acres
  • Program yields
    • 2008 through 2012 yields will be used to update any program crop yields
  • Acres planted to program crops from 2008 through 2013
    • 2009-2012 program crop planted acres will be used for any base acre reallocation

The information in the August FSA letters will be useful as you start to make decisions on yield updating, base acreage reallocation, and later when choosing commodity programs.

Yield Updating

A one-time, irrevocable option exists to keep the current program yield for each program crop, or update the yield to 90% of average yields from 2008 to 2012. If any yield between 2008 and 2012 are below a plug yield or if evidence does not exist to support a yield for the FSA farm, the plug yield will be used in calculating the updated yield.

Base Acre Reallocation

A one-time, irrevocable decision exists to retain the current allocation of base acres by program crop or update each crop's acres based on average program crop plantings from 2009 through 2012. This decision will not change the total base acres on the farm but could change the acres allocated to each crop.

Check out their web site for additional educational resources and on-line decision tools:  http://extension.missouri.edu/scott/Farm-bill.aspx 

 

 

 


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