By DONNA J. FERGUSON Communications Coordinator, Indiana Farm Service Agency Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack provided farm owners and producers one additional week, until Tuesday, April 7, to choose between Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage, the safety-net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill. The final day to update yield history or reallocate base …read more.

By DONNA FERGUSON United States Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Indiana Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Julia A. Wickard reminds producers of upcoming important deadlines for the new safety-net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill, known as Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage. The final day to update yield history …read more.

Indiana Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Julia A. Wickard has announced that 22 counties are authorized for emergency grazing of the Conservation Reserve Program. Among the counties approved for CRP emergency grazing regionally are: Allen, Fulton, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble and Wabash. The CRP emergency grazing authorization for 2012 is effective immediately and currently …read more.