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US Department of Agriculture

June, 2022


Map Packets Ready to Pick up

electronic

 

   

Map packets are printed and ready for pick up.  Operators will pick up map packets and write on maps.  Get them dropped back off to FSA and we will get them loaded.  Once loaded we will give you a call they have been loaded.  We can send 578 acreage reports through OneSpan to digitally sign, or we can make an appointment to sit down with you to sign the reports.  All Operators will receive a 578 Summary sheet to get to crop insurance. 

In map packets Operators will also get their ARCPLC worksheet.  This worksheet is for the 2023 program year and is due back by Feb 3.  Operators will be responsible for obtaining all owner signatures and get them to FSA before the March 15 deadline.  The reason for the Feb 3 deadline is so FSA can get them printed and given to the Operator with enough time to get signatures back.  There is no late file or extension to the ARCPLC deadline.

Please return map packets ASAP to allow the staff enough time to get the entire county loaded by the Dec 15 deadline.  

 


Do you graze your wheat? Do you graze your wheat early in the season then take the crop for grain?

cover crop drill

Do you graze your wheat?  Do you graze your wheat early in the season then take the crop for grain?  If you said yes to either of these questions you need to write on your maps the intended use.  You will need to report it to crop insurance the same way.  Please note intended use is what you planned on doing with the crop at planting.  FSA can not change intended use after the acreage reporting deadline of Dec 15th. 

 -Intended use to graze only= write on map wheat for graze                

-Intended use to graze then take the crop for grain= write on map wheat for grain/graze


FSA Encourages Farmers and Ranchers to Vote in County Committee Elections

2022 COC Election Calendar

The Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections began in Nov when ballots were mailed to eligible voters. The deadline to return the ballots to local FSA offices, or to be postmarked, is Dec. 5.

County committee members are an important component of the operations of FSA and provide a link between the agricultural community and USDA. Farmers and ranchers elected to county committees help deliver FSA programs at the local level, applying their knowledge and judgment to make decisions on commodity price support programs; conservation programs; incentive indemnity and disaster programs for some commodities; emergency programs and eligibility. FSA committees operate within official regulations designed to carry out federal laws.

To be an eligible voter, farmers and ranchers must participate or cooperate in an FSA program. A person who is not of legal voting age but supervises and conducts the farming operations of an entire farm, may also be eligible to vote.

Eligible voters in local administrative area #3 (Townships - Stanton, Sheridan, Logan , Sherman, chapman, Garfield and Blaine), who do not receive a ballot can obtain one from their local USDA Service Center.

Newly elected committee members will take office Jan. 1.


 

USDA Service Center

Ottawa County Service Center
877 Laurel
Minneapolis, KS 67467

Phone: 785-392-3393
Fax:  855-784-3643

 
   

 

 

County Executive Director: Amanda.Ahrens@usda.gov

Program Technicians:
Angela.Haney@usda.gov 
Kelsie.Klenke@usda.gov

Farm Program Group E-Mail
 ksminneapo-fsa@one.usda.gov

Farm Loan Manager:
 
Kevin.Vondra@usda.gov 

Farm Loan Officers: 
Alyssa.Strong@usda.gov

Farm Loan Officer Trainee"
Brooke.Austin@usda,gov

Farm Loan Program Technicians: 
Kelli.Moore@usda.gov
Daren.Stephans@usda.gov

Farm Loan Group E-Mail
FSA-KS-SA-FarmLoans@usda.gov

 

County Committee:
Tom Tibbits- Chairperson
Tommy Barrett II – Vice Chair
Steve Clanton- Regular Member
Val Crum-Advisor

NRCS:

District Conservationist 
adam.elliot@usda.gov

Soil Conservationist 
danny.farmer@usda.gov

Conservation District Secretary 
vacant      @ks.nacdnet.net