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Local FSA offices could be busy

Following the August 12 USDA August Crop Report, local Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices are gearing up for what could be a very busy couple of days. Marietta Kendall, program specialist in the Indiana State FSA office says producers need to contact their local office before the Friday, August 14th deadline.

“We encourage producers to call in and make an appointment,” said Kendall. “If they can’t get in within the next two days a lot of our county offices have requested to use registers, but a producer does have to contact the office by Friday to schedule an appointment.”

With yield and price projections available from the August report, FSA program specialist Carl Schweikhardt tells Brownfield that producers can do the necessary calculations to decide whether or not ACRE fits their farming operation.

“Producers are going to have to take these numbers, yields and prices, and run the numbers in our calculators and see how they work out,” Schweikhardt said.

In addition to making an appointment by the Friday deadline, both Marietta Kendall and Carl Schweikhardt remind producers that signatures from landowners and farm operators will be needed in order to sign-up in the ACRE program.

AUDIO: Marietta Kendall/Carl Schweikhardt, Indiana FSA (3:50 MP3)