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Soon harvest will be completed and we will be preparing for the next crop year. In addition to cleaning and storing your equipment you should think about your 2009 farm plan.
As DCP sign-up is just around the corner, now is the time to report to your local Farm Service Agency any farming changes […]

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Are you familiar with that phrase “the more things change, the more they stay the same?” Sometimes I think that is never truer than when working with your Farm Service Agency office.
Change seems to be our middle name, yet many of the changes we make seem to take us right back to […]

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The 2008 farm bill made several changes to Farm Service Agency farm loans.
The Down Payment real estate loan program has been expanded and improved. It is now available to beginning farmers and socially disadvantaged persons.

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I don’t know which is crazier or more unpredictable, the stock market or the crop market. Both have taken their lumps over the last month or so.

Combine falling prices with yields that may not measure up to the last couple of years and rising crop inputs, and farmers are forced to watch things […]

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It is with a little sadness that I will sit back and watch as the 2008-09 school year begins.

In September of 1996, that big yellow bus pulled up in front of our house and my little 5-year-old boarded the bus for her first day of kindergarten. This was a brave little soul as she […]

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Another weekend of summer bites the dust.
It seems like only yesterday the children were getting out of school and the summer had just begun. Parents are now busy school shopping and preparing to send their children back to school.
Some parents do this with great anticipation, as others are not looking forward to […]

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This year has found everyone in the office helping do acreage reports and sign producers into the Direct Counter-Cyclical Program.

Sometimes, one can forget everything they need to do to meet our program procedures.

I found a popular forgetful moment for producers was getting approval from Natural Resources Conservation Service prior to breaking out or clearing […]

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This week I’m going to reissue a previous article I wrote.
Amazingly enough the same issues I wrote about two years ago are still points of contention at FSA offices.

Most county offices have gone to appointments to better assist producers. Please try to keep your appointment if at all possible. Please reschedule if necessary and […]

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In last week’s article, I mentioned that qualifying for the Quality Loss Program required certain actions on behalf of producers. I wanted to clarify a couple of issues that may have been misleading.
First, a producer does have to have a quantity loss application on file. However, that application does not have to already […]

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The start of July doesn’t seem to have brought much help to us in the hay making department.
Thank God for Sunfilm and tube wrappers as dry hay is just about impossible in central eastern Ohio.
Wheat harvest will need to crank up soon or I don’t see too many double crop beans getting […]