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FSA Administrator comments on implementing new farm bill
FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce told a USDA listening session on implementing the 2018 Farm Bill there are not any new-from-the-ground-up programs to administer. He says, “There are existing programs that have new and improved changes, whether that be ARC-PLC, Dairy Margin Coverage, CRP, or even higher lending limits for farm loan programs.
Fordyce says FSA staff have done a side-by-side comparison of the programs in the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills, and how things have changed. “We’ve asked teams to come in from the field to start work on some of those provisions that we know we need to get started on and also looking at what are the discretionary decisions we have to make as it relates to the new farm bill.”
Fordyce made his comments in Washington Tuesday.
What this means is more of the same bureaucratic solutions of more government programs, more special interest money, fewer and fewer farmers, and business as usual. Keep the politicians, sacrifice the farmers.