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The 2008 Farm Bill is bringing changes to our 2009 farm plans just as the changing weather is bringing changes to our final 2008 plans.

Disaster assistance
While preparing for the 2009 crop year, you might want to consider the issuance of disaster payments. The newly enacted legislation issues a fleet of disaster […]

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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 […]

There is the possibility the USDA’s Emergency Conservation Program has been implemented in your county by your local county committee to help with Ike cleanup efforts.

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The 2008 farm bill was passed late, and because of that, we are late signing producers up for the 2008 DCP (Direct and Counter Cyclical Payment) Program.

Typically, many of you would have signed up in the fall of 2007, or early spring of 2008, to get your advance payment. Due to the late passing […]

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The Wayne County Fair starts this Saturday. The Budweiser Clydesdale horses will be on display there most of the week, with intermittent scheduled demonstrations. This is in addition to the fair being the largest junior fair in the state of Ohio!
The local FSA office has a display over on Machinery/Ag Row, so stop by […]

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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 […]