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Farm Bill Payments
Farm Bill Payments
Farm Bill Payments
Most farmers signed up or are  enrolled in the county yield-based Ag Risk Coverage or ARC-CO option of the current Farm Bill. The payment a farmer might receive is based on county yields and the price. The Farm Bill uses benchmark county yields for a number of years and a weighted price depending on how much corn was sold each month to determine whether you will get payment...
Re-up for Farm Bill
Re-up for Farm Bill
Re-up for Farm Bill
Today I went down to the Farm Service Agency office in Owatonna to sign up for the Farm Bill. When the current Farm Bill was passed there were a number of important decisions that farmers had to make. Those decisions then remained in effect for the rest of the current Farm Bill...
Sign up for Farm Bill
Sign up for Farm Bill
Sign up for Farm Bill
Many farmers are not aware that each year they have to stop by their local Farm Service Agency Office to sign up for the Farm Bill. Remember a couple of years ago when the new Farm Bill was being implemented, we were given the choice of signing up for the ARC County, ARC Individual, or PLC...
AM MN: Tom Coffman
AM MN: Tom Coffman
AM MN: Tom Coffman
Rice County District Conservationist Tom Coffman will be my guest on AM Minnesota today. We will talk about the conservation provisions in the new farm bill. As I understand it, there are not any new programs, and the ones we are familiar with were written into the new farm bill...
Farm bill questions answered
Farm bill questions answered
Farm bill questions answered
Many farmers have gone to at least one Farm Bill meeting. Some of us more than one, plus reading many articles and using computer-based decision aids. Farm Management Analyst Kent Thiesse put together a four-page summary of some of the most common questions he has been asked at numerous meetings. If you have not updated your yields and base acres or decided on PLC or ARC county, take a few minutes