{"id":75277,"date":"2016-11-19T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75277"},"modified":"2016-11-18T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:54:42","slug":"usda-announces-enrollment-period-for-safety-net-coverage-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75277","title":{"rendered":"USDA Announces Enrollment Period for Safety Net Coverage in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fsa\"<\/a>U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini announced that producers on farms with base acres under the safety net programs\u00a0established by the 2014 Farm Bill, known as the Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs, can begin visiting FSA county offices to sign contracts and enroll for the\u00a02017 crop year. The enrollment period will continue until Aug. 1, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cFSA issued more than $7 billion in payments in October 2016 under the ARC-County and PLC programs for the 2015 crop to assist enrolled producers who suffered a loss of price or revenue or both,\u201d said Dolcini. \u201cSince shares and ownership of a farm can change year-to- year, producers on the farm\u00a0must enroll by signing a contract each program year. I encourage you to contact your local FSA office\u00a0today to schedule an appointment to enroll.\u201d<\/p>\n

If a farm is not enrolled during the 2017 enrollment period, the producers on that farm will not be\u00a0eligible for financial assistance from the ARC or PLC programs for the 2017 crop should crop prices or\u00a0farm revenues fall below the historical price or revenue benchmarks established by the program.<\/p>\n

Producers who made their elections in 2015 must still enroll during the 2017 enrollment period.<\/p>\n

The ARC and PLC programs were authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill and offer a safety net to agricultural\u00a0producers when there is a substantial drop in prices or revenues for covered commodities.\u00a0Covered\u00a0commodities include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum,\u00a0lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which\u00a0includes short grain and sweet rice), safflower seed, sesame, soybeans, sunflower seed and wheat.<\/p>\n

Upland cotton is no longer a covered commodity.\u00a0For more details regarding these programs, go to\u00a0www.fsa.usda.gov\/arc-plc.<\/p>\n

For more information, producers are encouraged to visit their local FSA office. To find a local FSA\u00a0office, visit http:\/\/offices.usda.gov.<\/p>\n

USDA works to strengthen and support American agriculture, an industry that supports one in 11\u00a0American jobs, provides American consumers with more than 80 percent of the food we consume, ensures that Americans spend less of their paychecks at the grocery store than most people in other\u00a0countries, and supports markets for homegrown renewable energy and materials. Since 2009, USDA has\u00a0provided $5.6 billion in disaster relief to farmers and ranchers; expanded risk management tools with\u00a0products like Whole Farm Revenue Protection; and helped farm businesses grow with $36 billion in\u00a0farm credit.<\/p>\n

The Department has engaged its resources to support a strong next generation of farmers\u00a0and ranchers by improving access to land and capital; building new markets and market opportunities;\u00a0and extending new conservation opportunities. USDA has developed new markets for rural-made\u00a0products, including more than 2,700 biobased products through USDA&#39;s BioPreferred program; and\u00a0invested $64 billion in infrastructure and community facilities to help improve the quality of life in rural\u00a0America. For more information, visit\u00a0www.usda.gov\/results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini announced that producers on farms with base acres under the safety net programs\u00a0established by the 2014 Farm Bill, known as the Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage programs, can begin visiting FSA county offices to sign contracts and enroll for the\u00a02017 crop year. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277","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=75277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}