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Vilsack tells Blunt streamlined reporting will be nationwide

BrownfieldAppImageThe USDA reporting process for farmers is going to get easier. At a subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Missouri Senator Roy Blunt asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about that, “My good friend Blake Hurst, who’s the president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, was telling me the other day he has to go into the FSA office and file his report on crop insurance then he has to go to his crop insurance agent. And, then the crop insurance agent has to refile the same information with Risk Management. Are we making any progress in trying to streamline that?”

Secretary Vilsack’s answer was, yes, “We started with a pilot project in Iowa and Illinois to try to test market how we would be able to have better coordination between RMA and FSA and their reporting. We then extended that to a number of other states and now we are prepared this year to go nationwide. So, the concerns he has expressed, I think, by the end of this year he will be much happier.”

Vilsack says farmers will be able to access their records, maps and all their information on their home computers with FSA Plus.

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