Market Farming

[Bill Bradshaw <billbradshaw AT direcway.com>]

Pat, in Texas, my area anyway. If you have no production history (like just starting out with FSA) and a loss accrues the production will be based on the state average. But if you have a (say five year history of your own) and you are a good farmer the production loss will be based on your own history. Reward for being a good farmer. I think this is better than being lumped in with the whole state. Unless you are a bad farmer. You are right about FSA not knowing about cretin crops If you are in an area where hay , soy bean  or cotton are grown they are not going to know much about carrots. TexasBill

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From: Pat Jackowsky

To: Market Farming

Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:52 PM

Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Certify with the FSA

>>>>>The $300.00  will cover all your crops in that county. It makes no difference how many crops you have after three @ $100.00 each. 50 different crops still $300.00. TexasBill>>>>>

 

Hmmm...very interesting Bill.  They sure told us $300 per crop.  Guess I should have checked into it further.  The people we have to deal with here at the FSA office could care less.  They are here to serve the cotton/soy farmers.  They had no clue how to pay us the one year we did file.  They had no vegetable production to base it on for our area.  However, we gave them a paper published by MS State that gave estimated yeilds and somehow they came up with their own numbers.  That year we planted 1500 tomato plants alone and lost all of them.  Not to mention other lost crops and all we recouped from our total loss was around $300.  We tried to fight it but got no where so we never bothered again.  Maybe I need to do some research and go visit them again. :)

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