Richard Fordyce

The FSA County Committee election cycle is now underway, and runs through August 1st. FSA Administrator, Richard Fordyce, said Committees are responsible for decisions at the local level; ranging from program decisions to hiring to county executive directors ...

The FSA will start accepting nominations for county committee members on Monday. Elections will occur in certain Local Administrative Areas for these members who make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally ...

The FSA announced this week that March triggered the first payment to dairy farmers enrolled in the Dairy Margin Coverage program. The March income over feed cost margin was $9.15 cwt. Current projections indicate that a DMC payment is likely to trigger every month for the remainder of 2020, a different expectation from last July when some market models had forecast no program payments for 18 m

How was participation in the Agriculture Risk Coverage or ARC Program and the Price Loss Coverage Program for 2019 crops? The answer: record high! USDA reporting the most farmer participation ever in those programs singing one and three quarter million in contracts ...

USDA’s Farm Service Agency county offices are open only by a phone appointment until further notice because of the COVID-19 outbreak. FSA staff are available to continue helping agricultural producers with program signups, loan servicing, and other important actions. Als ...

When it comes to the recently concluded ARC and PLC signup period for 2019 crop year. "We're still working with producers that had appointments scheduled, and getting that work cleaned up," said FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce. The deadline to schedule appointments to enroll was March 16th ...

Farmers who have not yet completed their 2019 crop year elections for enrollment in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs must schedule an appointment to do so with their local USDA Farm Service Agency by Monday. FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce said, " If you've not completed your elections or enrollment, the clock is ticking, and your program eligibility is at sta

If you did not choose to enroll acreage in the recently concluded CRP general sign-up, there are other USDA Farm Service Agency programs to participate in under the CRP banner. And one sign-up session will get underway soon. "This year the sign-up period for CRP Grasslands is March 16th-May 15th, noted FSA Administrator, Rochard Fordyce ...

The deadline to sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program, better known as CRP is Friday, February 28th.  Farm Service Agency Administrator, Richard Fordyce, said the deadline was set so that enrollment decisions by producers could be made by early spring before planting.  ...

One of the biggest questions facing those looking at growing hemp: Could the USDA raise the legal limit of permitted THC?   “To go from point three to one percent would have to be a statutory change in other words congress would have to take action,” said AMS Administrator, Bruce Summers. “We couldn't do...