{"id":47474,"date":"2013-06-18T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47474"},"modified":"2013-06-18T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:40:51","slug":"farm-service-agency-county-committee-nomination-period-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=47474","title":{"rendered":"Farm Service Agency County Committee Nomination Period Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(Hamilton, June 2013) \u00a0County Executive Director Laurie Fuess announced that the nomination period for Madison County Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee began on Monday, June 17.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“I encourage all eligible farmers to participate in this year’s county committee election by nominating candidates by the August 1 deadline,” said Fuess.\u00a0 “County committees are a vital link between the farm community and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and provide an opportunity to farmers for their opinions and ideas to be heard.\u00a0 Across the nation we have been seeing an increase in the number of nominations of women and minority candidates.<\/p>\n

To be eligible to serve on an FSA county committee, a person must participate or cooperate in a program administered by FSA, be eligible to vote in a county committee election and reside in the local administrative area in which the person is a candidate.<\/p>\n

Here in Madison County LAA (local administrative area) 3 is up for election. This LAA includes the towns of DeRuyter, Georgetown, Lebanon, Hamilton and Brookfield.<\/p>\n

Farmers may nominate themselves or others, and organizations representing minorities and women also may nominate candidates.\u00a0 To become a candidate, an eligible individual must sign the nomination form, FSA-669A.\u00a0 The form and other information about FSA county committee elections are available online at www.fsa.usda.gov\/elections<\/a>.\u00a0 Nomination forms for the 2013 election must be postmarked or received in the local USDA Service Center by close of business on Aug. 1, 2013. Elections will take place in December.<\/p>\n

While FSA county committees do not approve or deny farm ownership or operating loans, they make decisions on disaster and conservation programs, emergency programs, commodity price support loan programs and other agricultural issues.\u00a0 Members serve three-year terms.\u00a0 Nationwide, there are about 7,800 farmers and ranchers serving on FSA county committees.\u00a0 Committees consist of three to 11 members that are elected by eligible producers.<\/p>\n

FSA will mail ballots to eligible voters beginning Nov. 4.\u00a0 The voted ballots are due back to the local county office either via mail or in person by Dec. 2.\u00a0 Newly elected committee members and alternates take office on Jan. 1, 2014.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0(Hamilton, June 2013) \u00a0County Executive Director Laurie Fuess announced that the nomination period for Madison County Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee began on Monday, June 17. \u00a0“I encourage all eligible farmers to participate in this year’s county committee election by nominating candidates by the August 1 deadline,” said Fuess.\u00a0 “County committees are a vital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-clI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}