{"id":66794,"date":"2016-03-30T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66794"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:23:17","slug":"op-ed-oneida-and-madison-county-fsa-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66794","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: Oneida and Madison County FSA Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"download\"<\/a>From the Directors Desk<\/u><\/u><\/h1>\n

The weather has been perfect for getting ready for spring work!\u00a0 The calendar indicates it has arrived, and the weather has been cooperating too.\u00a0 Do your spring plans involve drainage tile, removing hedgerows or converting land to cropland?\u00a0 Save money, time and stress by understanding the Food Security Act of 1985 before you begin.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

FSA and NRCS will be holding an informational producer meeting to review the provisions and requirements of the Act, the process for wetland determinations, highly erodible land\u00a0determinations, and what happens if a violation occurs.\u00a0 All producers are invited and welcome to attend.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

When: Wednesday, April 6, 2016<\/span><\/span>, at 1:00 pm<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Where: Madison County Cooperative Extension, Ag Center<\/b><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Please call the Madison County FSA office\u00a0at (315)\u00a0824-9076,\u00a0ext. 2<\/a>, by Monday, April 4th<\/span><\/span>, to RSVP.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Persons with disabilities who require accommodations to attend or participate in this meeting should contact\u00a0Kyriel Poulin\u00a0at\u00a0315-824-9076 extension 2<\/a>\u00a0or Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339<\/a> by\u00a0Monday, April 4, 2016.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Just a few reminders.\u00a0 Marketing Assistance Loans are still available.\u00a0 The deadline for 2015 wheat, oat and barley loans is March 31st<\/span><\/span> and the deadline to request 2015-crop corn and soybean loans is May 31<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 The interest rate is 1.5%, with a 9-month repayment term.\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Farm Storage Facility Loan rates are 1.625% for a 7-year loan, 1.875% for a 10-year loan and 2.0% for a 12-year loan.\u00a0\u00a0The FSFL program has recently added additional eligible crops including (but not limited to), eggs, cheese, poultry, hops, hay, honey, maple sap, just to\u00a0name a few.\u00a0 In addition, bulk tanks are now eligible.\u00a0 Call the office for more details.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Annual crop reporting will be here before you know it!\u00a0 May 15th<\/span><\/span> is the deadline for spring forage seedings, and onions.\u00a0July 15th<\/span><\/span> is the deadline for spring barley, corn, dry beans, sweet corn, grain sorghum, spring oats, potatoes, soybeans, tomatoes, CRP and all other crops.\u00a0 The deadline for cabbage, fresh market beans and processing beans isAugust 15th<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 If you finish before your scheduled appointment, give us a call and we can get you in to report sooner.\u00a0<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Happy Spring!<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Donna W. Purdy
\nCounty Executive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Directors Desk The weather has been perfect for getting ready for spring work!\u00a0 The calendar indicates it has arrived, and the weather has been cooperating too.\u00a0 Do your spring plans involve drainage tile, removing hedgerows or converting land to cropland?\u00a0 Save money, time and stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,23678,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-letterstotheeditor","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66794","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=66794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}