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Linda Henry, county executive director of the Rappahannock County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said farmers who enrolled in the 1990 wheat and feed grain reduction programs should now prepare to certify or report their program acres.
Farm program participants in Rappahannock County have until June 15 to report the acres and intended uses of their wheat, oats, barley, rye and other fall-seeded crops to ASCS. Small grain crops that are not reported by this deadline will be ineligible for program benefits.
ASCS uses acreage reports to determine compliance with farm programs. Before farmers can receive price support loans, deficiency payments and other program benefits, they must certify their entire farm after planting, according to Ms. Henry. The reports contain crops and acreages planted, the uses to be made of these crops, and cropland acres to be devoted to the acreage conservation reserve.
Prior to reporting the acres, producers can request that ASCS measure their program acres, and thus avoid unnecessary worry over the loss of program benefits. Fees vary depending on the type of measurements provided. Measurement services is valuable not only to farm program participants, but to any farmer who desires an accurate acreage for any reason.
Rappahannock County farmers who have not certified their fall seeded crops are urged to do so by June 15, Ms. Henry said. For more information, please come by the local ASCS office on the corner of Gay & Jett streets in Washington.
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