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New Southern Plains Perspective Blog Post Reminds Producers of Upcoming March 15 Deadline
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:49:04 CDT
Did you plant cover crops last summer? Do you want a break on crop insurance? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, you have until March 15 to file with FSA.
Remember the Pandemic Cover Crop Program or PCCP? You should we wrote a blog about it back in June. At that time USDA had just announced this new program for farmers who planted fall cover crops and that were in the process of ensuring their spring planted program (cash crops). This program provided a $5 per acre break on crop insurance for those winter covers producers planted following their 2021 cash crop.
In that blog we also mentioned that at that time this program only applied to spring crops and winter covers, but that if you grew winter wheat, rye or other fall planted crops and then followed these cash crops with summer covers, you needed to report those cover crop acres to the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) as soon as they were in the ground because there was a chance that this effort might be expanded in the future to cover fall planted cash crops.
Guess what? It was.
Last month the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced that the PCCP will be extended to cover those cover crop acres planted last summer following fall planted crops like winter wheat. The kicker is that producers HAVE TO GET THEIR COVER CROP ACRES REPORTED TO FSA BY MARCH 15 by filing the Report of Acreage form (FSA-578) with your local office if they want to qualify.
See why we said you needed to get those acres reported?
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