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Fordyce says Farm Bill is FSA priority #1

The head of USDA’s Farm Service Agency says implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill has been slowed down but that will NOT negatively impact farmers. Richard Fordyce tells Brownfield the TOP priority at FSA is to get the farm bill implemented, “When you have 35 days you can’t work, that’s 35 days of work you didn’t get done. But we’re working very, very hard to make sure that we are implementing this. The Secretary is very clear that he wants us to get these programs rolled out as quickly as possible.”

Fordyce says the second round of Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments is about finished but farmers with crops still in the field DO have until May 1st to submit that information and many of them need that time, “I know this has just been, certainly in the Midwest this has just been one heck of a winter. And I think everybody, where I’m from, they’re ready for spring.”

Fordyce is Missouri’s former Ag Director and state FSA director who spoke with Brownfield at Commodity Classic in Orlando.

Interview with FSA Director Richard Fordyce at Commodity Classic ’19

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